maybe to get some idea... tuxrip.free.fr/dvddump/

Great!!

Thanks a lot, I think I just found what I needed to learn how to rip the subtitles. I'll study the code.

so for time been, how do I include a "non permanent" subtitle with your script?

Eh! I'm back.

I just bumped into a snag. It could be a FAQ but ... here it goes.

I have this DVD which plays on my tvtop player in letterbox mode. When I play it with mplayer directly from the DVD tray, it works in letterbox. But once I rip it, the playback is in a more squarish ratio. With mplayer, it goes this way:

The consequence is that, once I burn the DVD for my tvtop, it plays the movie in 720x540 (with long skinny bodies and faces). Something must be present in the VOB header to keep it at 720x480 on the tvtop. Playback with mplayer can be modified using -noaspect option to see it in letterbox but I don't know how to extract or encode it so that 720 x 480 will be used on the tvtop. My tvtop settings permits differents ratio configurations but in this case, a 720x540 ratio won't retrofit to 740x480.

Any help appreciated.

I've seen that someone has already spoken about k9copy. New version 1.0.3b came out few days ago, but the trouble concerning too big output isos remains the same. Someone has told me that maybe there's something that goes wrong with vamps. Infact it seems that vamps calculates the shrinking size looking at video only and so the extra output may be due to the audio track(s). If there's someone out there who can confirm that rumor or better correct the k9copy source code, all the k9 users would appreciate that!

Thanx in advance

I released a new version of dvrequant on Sourceforge....Minor update..the log file displays more detailed and ordered information for debugging purposes.

Any one know how to cut mpeg2 files ? It doesn't need to be a visual tool or command, just something that helps me cut a file in 2 parts so that part 2 is also playable as a standalone movie.

Thanks.

Use Avidemux. I cut mpeg2 DVD PS streams and all other kind of formats with it all the time.

One thing to remember: with mpeg2 always make sure you cut on a key frame. Use "next key frame" on the toolbar. Otherwise you may lose audio sync.

Avidemux is top 5 nicest GUI video editing tool on linux as far as I am concerned.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Yes, I was excitted when I found K9copy the other day. First DVD I used it with and it worked GREAT! I was excitted

But now the 2nd DVD I need to use it with and its producing a 4.7GB iso no matter what output size I select

I very rarely need to shrink DVD's and usually just make a 600mb MPEG4 of my DVD, but I have needed to keep the menu's and structure recently, hence my search.

I have the same problem using k9copy on Debian Sarge AMD64. Sometimes the content is properly compressed to fit on a DVD-R, but sometimes I get an iso around 5.5GB irrespective of the iso size I request.

Has anyone figured out how to fix this?

Only way I got it to work with the DVD in question was to delete some of the 4 and 6ch audio streams on each track. I think K9copy only takes the main audio for each track into consideration, thus the extra tracks are what balloons it out.

I emailed the k9copy developers and they told me version 1.0.4 fixes the problem.

There don't seem to be any Debian packages for it yet, but I compiled the source tar and it seems to run under the same dependencies as the previous version.

There are unofficial debian packages for k9copy. Just add the lines:

deb http://repos.knio.it/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src http://repos.knio.it/ sarge main contrib non-free

notice 1.0.4 isn't there yet.

using your script, how can I backup a dvd which contains episode?

should I concatenate all the audio files and all the video files and multiplex the new audio and video?
or should I contatenate all the final video file?

Unfortunately the script was not created for that purpose but you can use xdvdshrink for that instead.