Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip xXx

2005-08-05 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 8/5/05, Michael.S.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using MythDVD I am trying to do a perfect rip of xXx (Vin Diesel) It Rips ok (Video), But the audio is the director commentary. How do I get MythDVD to rip the normal soundtrack (Any format!). Using FC4. Also, Other DVD's seem to work

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-07-13 Thread Derek Scollon
Yes, I did and as fas as I could determine, it sounded like a problem with decoding some discs. Ultimately, I ended up solving the problem using my Windows machine. It's a fudge, but it never has any problem ripping discs. I'm doing almost exactly what James Oltman is describing here

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-07-13 Thread Steven
Derek Scollon wrote: Yes, I did and as fas as I could determine, it sounded like a problem with decoding some discs. Ultimately, I ended up solving the problem using my Windows machine. It's a fudge, but it never has any problem ripping discs. I'm doing almost exactly what James Oltman is

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-07-13 Thread Derek Scollon
Derek Scollon wrote: Yes, I did and as fas as I could determine, it sounded like a problem with decoding some discs. Ultimately, I ended up solving the problem using my Windows machine. It's a fudge, but it never has any problem ripping discs. I'm doing almost exactly what James Oltman is

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-07-12 Thread Matthew K. Lee
On 5/24/05, Jonathan Watmough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Feel free to call me an idiot, but if someone can provide a quick step by step I would greatly appreciate it. --Garry ___ mythtv-users mailing list

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-07-12 Thread Robert Tsai
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:08:42AM -0500, Matthew K. Lee wrote: On 5/24/05, Jonathan Watmough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Andrew's instructions, I've done the following and it seems to work... 1. Insert DVD and run xine, let it start playing the DVD, then exit it. 2. dd

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip Problem

2005-06-07 Thread Kevin Kirts
I will replace the DVD drive. Looking at the aspect ratio again I see that it is correct. Just bad eyes on my part late at night. Thanks for your help! --- thor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2005 01:07 am, Kevin Kirts wrote: the aspect ratio is wrong for the transcode

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-26 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 20:12, Derek Scollon wrote: I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving DVD menus and chapters. I've done this in Windows

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Andrew Ziobro
I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving DVD menus and chapters. I've done this in Windows using a little program which makes perfect or

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Tim Sylvester
] On Behalf Of Andrew Ziobro Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:17 PM To: Derek Scollon; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Derek Scollon
] On Behalf Of Andrew Ziobro Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:17 PM To: Derek Scollon; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Kyle Rose
This was on the list a while back. It will make a perfect copy to the HD of the entire DVD. I found you need to open the DVD with xine first to unlock it and then you can copy it. dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.iso bs=2048 xine dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/ It works and it's brilliant.

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Derek Scollon
] On Behalf Of Andrew Ziobro Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:17 PM To: Derek Scollon; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Garry Cook
On 5/24/05, Andrew Ziobro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving DVD menus and chapters. I've done this in

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Derek Scollon
This was on the list a while back. It will make a perfect copy to the HD of the entire DVD. I found you need to open the DVD with xine first to unlock it and then you can copy it. dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.iso bs=2048 xine dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/ It works and it's brilliant.

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Dr. Doug L. Hoffman
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ziobro Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:17 PM To: Derek Scollon; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Derek Scollon
On 5/24/05, Andrew Ziobro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving DVD menus and chapters. I've done this in Windows

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Jonathan Watmough
On 5/24/05, Derek Scollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/05, Andrew Ziobro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next question is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Anthony Valentine
Jonathan Watmough wrote: Please excuse my ignorance. I just don't get this... I get an i/o error when I try to run this 'dd' command, either as mythtv or root. Also, I'm not sure about 'copy_of', should this be the name of the DVD? For instance, I want to rip my copy of Black Hawk Down to

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Garry Cook
On 5/24/05, Anthony Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Watmough wrote: Please excuse my ignorance. I just don't get this... I get an i/o error when I try to run this 'dd' command, either as mythtv or root. Also, I'm not sure about 'copy_of', should this be the name of the DVD?

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kyle Rose wrote: This was on the list a while back. It will make a perfect copy to the HD of the entire DVD. I found you need to open the DVD with xine first to unlock it and then you can copy it. dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/copy_of.iso bs=2048 xine dvd:///tmp/copy_of.dvd/ It works and it's

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Kyle Rose
Actually, libdvdcss will generate new keys for the material off the copy since you're copying everything (including Xing's unencrypted private key and all the encrypted keys along with the encrypted content--you're copying all the bits from the disc). Remember in *nix, everything is a file.

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

2005-05-24 Thread Michael T. Dean
Kyle Rose wrote: Actually, libdvdcss will generate new keys for the material off the copy since you're copying everything (including Xing's unencrypted private key and all the encrypted keys along with the encrypted content--you're copying all the bits from the disc). Remember in *nix,

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip quality?

2005-04-12 Thread Chad
The quality of the image :D I am guessing you are looking for filesize differences? I have found roughly the following: For every 1 hour: Perfect = ~2GB Excellent = ~1.3GB Good = ~900MB Medium = ~700MB As for quality, Good is 'good' enough for most of my stuff, for the action movies, or the

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip quality?

2005-04-12 Thread gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)
Chad wrote: The quality of the image :D I am guessing you are looking for filesize differences? think they meant codec / bitrate / etc ... filesize doesn't really tell much ... i know that perfect rips a VOB of the movie, so you get an exact copy of the movie from the dvd w/ whatever audio track

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip quality?

2005-04-12 Thread Adam Egger
On Apr 12, 2005 10:47 AM, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad wrote: The quality of the image :D I am guessing you are looking for filesize differences? think they meant codec / bitrate / etc ... filesize doesn't really tell much ... i know that perfect rips a VOB of

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip quality?

2005-04-12 Thread David
Adam Egger wrote: It would be great to have info pages in MythTV where you would get all important information. Like on the recording list page. When you press F1 there you get a short list with all definitions. There is a 'user manual' section on the mythtv.info site. Maybe you could update

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip quality?

2005-04-12 Thread thor
On Monday 11 April 2005 03:28 pm, Matthew K. Lee wrote: To anyone who can answer: What is the difference between a perfect, excellent, good, and medium rip? Depends on the source format. Source can be NTSC 4:3, NTSC 4:3 letterbox, NTSC 16:9, NTSC 16:9 letterbox, PAL 4:3, PAL 4:3

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-09 Thread Gregg
I added -alang en to my mythvideo line and it plays the correct tracks in english. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread Craig Partin
I'm pretty sure there's a preferred langauge setting in the DVD rip setup screen. You might want to check that first. On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:12:37 -0500, Ronald Kohsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to rip a couple DVD's and it continues to be in French. Although the French

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread Ronald Kohsman
08, 2005 9:17 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip I'm pretty sure there's a preferred langauge setting in the DVD rip setup screen. You might want to check that first. On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:12:37 -0500, Ronald Kohsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread James Olsovsky
9:17 AM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip I'm pretty sure there's a preferred langauge setting in the DVD rip setup screen. You might want to check that first. On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:12:37 -0500, Ronald Kohsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread Ronald Kohsman
Is that for the mplayer or do I need to re-rip the dvd to test? -r -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Olsovsky Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:04 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip I had a similar

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread Blammo [doh]
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Olsovsky Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:04 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip I had a similar issue when ripping DVD's, so after reading previous email, someone mentioned adding -aid 128

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Blammo [doh] wrote: I had the same problem with Spartan, except in this case, it would always play the directors commentary, and not the primary audio track. from a command line, if you do: mplayer -ao null -vo null -v FILENAME.vob you'll see a section showing all the audio tracks.. You'll see

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip

2005-02-08 Thread Ronald Kohsman
] On Behalf Of Blammo [doh] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:43 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Rip I had the same problem with Spartan, except in this case, it would always play the directors commentary, and not the primary audio track. from a command line, if you

Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea

2005-02-01 Thread Scott
On Feb 1, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Michael J. Lynch wrote: Scott wrote: 1) lsdvd /dev/dvd /dev/null 21 2) dd if=/dev/dvd of=/var/spool/videos/mydvd.iso This should avoid the need for mkisofs and save some time importing DVDs to the hard drive. So...if I add cdrecord to this sequence I can essentially

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea

2005-02-01 Thread Michael J. Emswiler
To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea On Jan 30, 2005, at 10:05 PM, Michael J. Emswiler wrote: I built a shell script to do it all (out of several pre-existing ones -- thanks for the great start Scott!) and then changed the Import DVD menu to Import DVD Track and added

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea

2005-02-01 Thread Michael J. Emswiler
: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:35 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea On Feb 1, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Michael J. Lynch wrote: Scott wrote: 1) lsdvd /dev/dvd /dev/null 21 2) dd if=/dev/dvd of=/var/spool/videos/mydvd.iso This should avoid the need for mkisofs and save

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea

2005-01-31 Thread rsalern5
Michael, That's excellent news. Please let us know when the HOWTO is available. Thanks, Russell Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:05:26 -0500 From: Michael J. Emswiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users@mythtv.org There has been some

RE: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea

2005-01-30 Thread Michael J. Emswiler
There has been some discussion of this exact thing on the forums and after some good hints and a lot of research, I finally got it working. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the kewl progress display the current Myth Rip does, but at least it gets the job done. I built a shell script to do it all