Please allow me to-- first-- thank you for your continuing aid for all we new to the better operating system, Linux, and it's various incarnations. I am pleased to be a part of the community. Now, on with the question:
AT HAND:
a Digital Versatile Disk, formatted the only way i knew-- at the time-- for such media as /DVD/. Thus, it has the VIDEO_TS struct., and of course the .VOB's, etc. (e.g. as created via set-top DVD-R/RW component, Magnavox, pretty bad ass for all sorts of things, but i digress)
Aforementioned DVD contains AUDIO-ONLY (but, let us consider that bit, irrelevant, for the sake of education, mine).
A RARE John Lennon, so-called /lost tapes/, radio broadcast: Orig media: S-VHS > Audio to aforementioned set-top DVD-R/W component.
AT ISSUE / What this User does desire as outcome:
I suspect few, if any of us spin DVD's for audio entertainment, home-to-the-grocery-and-back, dig? Right. Of course you don't do that, because you probably don't drive a BMW SUV, like the rich-bitches live near me! (:ahem: did i say that? oh, and i digress... my apologies.)
ULTIMATE DESIRE, as explained through ANECDOTAL REPORT:
Had I the point-n-click-sick-suck-system w/ which i /used-to/ edit such media, i would have done the following:
- "DVD Shrink" that DVD, for ease of extracting the nonsensical structure of the VOB's, etc., in one fell swoop (e.g. win32 soft, pretty decent i must admit).
- Aforementioned DVD media (e.g. J.Lennon Rarities, Audio Only), via "DVD Shrink" (or any such extraction method [i.e. Smart Ripper; ISO Buster; but DVD Shrink badass for it'll do the double-layers down to 4.xGB DVD size, and again, i digress) :: The Lennon Audio would then reside on the Linux /Mint Maya/ HDD (local Hard Disk Drive {temp of course, cause i won't need it, soon as i get to next step}...)
- Using a freeware win32 app, VOB2MPEG (sp? who cares!!), i point to that DVD extraction, let V2M find the .IFO files (again, badass feature of the latest version, VS former, clunky method of scanning the VOB files themselves).
- By now, I would be /nearly/ finished, and ready to burn CDDA media. I realize, MPG is not Mp3 (or other such -to-> CDDA compressed audio). But, I am familiar w/ /Transmageddon/, however wish i didn't have to do each media bit, one at a time {e.g. is there a batch mode for multi-transcoding w/ Transmageddon? if no, have you a suggestion?}
- Having now my CDDA-friendly /audio-only/ media, i can burn that sucker like a Lucky Strike, and enjoy it even more!
:sigh: I realize there's a lot to digest here. However, my brother [userid here, ajaxStardust, i believe] tells me this is the forum where the help is helpful, and the community is communal, and rarely do the know-it-all's descend upon such as i, ready for devouring my initiative to learn, etc.
So, that's that! I am very eager to hear what is your opinion on the matter.
I know how to add the PPA's. Tried Handbrake, but must be missing a dependency. Not sure what's up w/ that. Others, just too /spartan/ for my limited knowledge (e.g. Not an expert? Fire up the MS-box, and wait, and wait, and hate, and hate), so I come to you for salvation.
Thank you, sincerely, for your time, and consideration of this query. I do apologize for the lengthy text, but i couldn't think of another way to best explain my intentions. I trust more than one of you will have a viable suggestion. Learning is fun. I'm no Linux expert, but my brother can probably translate for me, if i can't get it on my own.
Best regards!