backing up my DVD's

igracgq · 12-10-2004, 09:22 PM

Is there a linux app out there where I can backup my own DVD movies. I used DVD Xcopy on windows but they don't have a linux version of it.

thanks

sigsegv · 12-10-2004, 10:18 PM

DVD::Rip, transcode, mplayer/mencoder, mjpegtools ... ummm .... Do a search for "Linux DVD Archive" on google or LQ.org. I know this has been answered *many* times before.

Caeda · 12-10-2004, 10:18 PM

How about instead of being lazy and asking other people to suggest a list, you start off all inquiries like this with google. Since the words "linux dvd copy" get good results on the second hit, its really not much of a stretch to expect someone to start there.

sigsegv · 12-10-2004, 10:31 PM

Who's following who here?

jh48107 · 12-10-2004, 11:00 PM

dvd::rip is the best program I have found to back up dvds. It is really just a graphical front end for transcode but it works really well. You can get it through apt or yum from freshrpms.net. Package name = perl-Video-DVDRip or go to the website and download it http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

J_Szucs · 12-10-2004, 11:43 PM

I wonder if k3b can create an iso image file of a dvd video?

If it is possible, it would have some advantages: you would not need a ripper, and creating an iso image is supposed to be much faster than ripping the same dvd. Besides, you would have one single iso file instead of several vobs.

Mounting an iso image is easy in Linux, and mplayer could play those.

Have anyone tried this?

igracgq · 12-11-2004, 10:33 AM

great, thanks guys.... Actually there is a link talking how K3B could do it

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=257923

By the way how long would it take to copy a DVD with the Dvd::rip program?

Thanks

jh48107 · 12-13-2004, 12:25 AM

dvd::rip normally takes about 20 to 25 minutes for me to rip a dvd, but it really depends on how fast your computer is. That is a fairly good time considering that most dvds are around 6 gigs. But after it is ripped you can convert it to almost any format. The only format I have tried to convert to is avi and that does take a while about 3 hours on average for me but 700 megabytes is alot nicer than 6 gigs.

igracgq · 12-13-2004, 09:53 PM

i guess converting it to the compresed DVD format would take a little less since it would comprss it from lets say 6GB to 4.7GB and not down to 700mb in your case. Or maybe i'm wrong with my assumption

sigsegv · 12-15-2004, 02:03 PM

Compress != Encode

When you encode a movie to DivX/XviD you're doing a (usually 2 pass) full re-encode of the film. When you (DVD)shrink it to fit on a 4.5DVD (I know, 4.7, but just try to put a full 4.7 on there), I don't know what happens, but it can't be re-encoding.

Which brings me to an interesting point -- How do things like DVDShrink work? It's too fast to be doing a full re-encode of the film, so what gives?

rustynailz · 12-15-2004, 02:14 PM

I *believe* that DVDShrink just does a bitrate adjustment.

igracgq · 12-15-2004, 04:33 PM

so basically if I want to convert the DVD to Xvid/Divx/SVCD I would use dvd::rip but if I wanted to leave the DVD in its DVD format but just shrink it so it can fit on a 4.7GB disc, then I would use DVD shrink?

well where can i Get the DVDshrink?

thanks

sigsegv · 12-15-2004, 05:24 PM

DVDShrink is Win32 software

FunkyRes · 12-15-2004, 07:17 PM

Eventually there will be a GStreamer solution -

http://ronald.bitfreak.net/me/rapide.php

igracgq · 12-15-2004, 10:00 PM

well if DVD shirink is Win32 app, then how can I use it with Linux?