Need help ripping DVDs at their original quality
Hey guys, I'm trying to rip a set of workout DVDs I've got so I can stream them through my TiVo with the built in Plex server it has. I've checked the forums and googled this to death and the couple things I've tried that work rip them but at a crappy quality that looks bad enough I just keep using my DVD player (It was ffmpeg but I just copied their arguments so that may have been the prob) . A couple other things that looked promising turned out to be software that doesn't exist any more (really old posts).
Anybody ripping DVDs at their ORIGINAL quality that cares to share? If it makes any difference I'm on Mint 17 and it will need to be a compatible format with Plex which I'm pretty sure is most of them? A GUI based program would be nice but I don't have an issue in the terminal if thats what it takes either. Thanks |
Handbrake
It can rip your dvd and encode the video to mp4 or mkv. Handbrake can be run as a GUI or from the terminal. The terminal command is HandBrakeCLI. To select video quality, click the video tab. On the right, you will see a RF scale. The default is 20. The lower the RF number, the higher the video quality and file size. A RF scale between 0-5 should give you the best quality. Other program you can use to rip dvds is VLC media player. |
I've tried Handbrake in the past, but will give it another go. So if I wanted to rip to the DVDs actual quality I should turn that setting all the way to 1?
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Do not transcode them then. Just copy. For instance mplayer can dump the whole title into a file on your hard drive.
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@snatale1 You can go as low as zero on the RF scale.
Also, on the bottom you can choose Preset and choose the desired bitrate. The default is 2500k/s which is good. A typical dvd has a bitrate of 9600k/s. You can use this bitrate value and should give you as close as possible video quality of the dvd title. |
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@snatale1 If you want to use Emerson suggestion, you can do a raw copy of the title like this mplayer -dumpfile outputfile.vob -dumpstream dvd://<title number> Whichever you choose, I hope it does what you want :) |
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I give the transcode command-line here: http://duganchen.ca/writings/linux/video-editing/ The idea it to rip to.vob, and not to some converted format like mp4. |
I downloaded a 30 day trial of a windows program and used it in wine. Seemed to get past some issues.
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Use lsdvd to find the chapter that you want, then dump the .vob to file. Code:
mplayer dvd://2 -dumpstream -dumpfile output.vob Code:
mpv dvd://1 --stream-dump=outout.vob Code:
ffmpeg -i file.vob -c:a copy -c:v copy output.mp4 Code:
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=image.iso bs=2048 Code:
mount -o loop image.iso /mounting/point Code:
mplayer -dvd-device /mounting/point dvd://2 https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/ffserver All of those are duplicates of original dvd. look at the man pages for lsdvd, mplayer, mpv, ffserver, dd, mount |
And the vob file is almost a mpg file, lots of players will play it no complaints. You can use mkvtoolnix to remux them to mkv if you wish. Or you can use some other app as Avidemux to remux them to whatever container you want.
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Technically, it contains MPEG-2 audio and video. VOB is similar to MPEG stream container, although not exactly. Everyone interested in more details feel free to use your favorite search engine.
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