Matt Price wrote:
Hi folks,
My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's
into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage
without much luck... In lieu of better parenting, I am trying to back
up our dvd's using my dvd-burner. Most of these are dual-layer dvd-9 (8+
gigabytes) and I only have single-layer dvd-5 (4.7g) discs, so I need
to do some kind of re-encoding. My dvd player claims to support Divx
and Mpeg4, so I was *hoping* to do the following:
- backup to hd with:
dvdbackup -v 2 -M -i/dev/hdd -o/outputdir
- transcode the individual VOB files to divx
- create a dvd with:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd -dvd-video /outputdir
I've hunted around a bit and I don't see a well-documented
comprehensive solution to this problem. so my question:
- is it actually possible to make a dvd file system using divx video
files, or am I missing the boat somehow? If I *am* barking up the
wrong tree, what solutions do other people use to make a dvd-9 to
dvd-5 backup? I have seen several tools described: lxdvdrip;
dvdrip;xdvdshrink;and drip. I'hve had problems with all of these:
-drip segfaults;
-xdvdshrink doesn't allow multiple audio tracks (so commentaries can't
be ripped) and seems to havetrouble with subtitles;
- I'm not entirely sure what lxdvdrip is supposedto be doing -- I ran
it successfully, but the resulting directory was rather smaller than I
expected & I'm not sure how to generate an iso from it;
- dvdrip almost always freezes up my user interface & in any case,
once it's finished ripping the files don't appear to have been
transcoded and I can't tell what precisely I'm meant to do next.
anyway, I would really appreciate any hints folks have or links to
useful howtos. thanks,
I am certainly no expert on this, but I would imagine that DVD players
that are capable of playing divx files would play them in much the same
way as they do mp3 discs. i.e. as a data DVD and not as a DVD-video.
I do not have a divx capable player to try, but for the cost of a blank
DVD it might be worth a shot.
I have used vobcopy in the past to just capture the main feature from
the DVD, and as there is so much cruft on today's DVD's it usually fits
on a DVD5 no probs.
HTH
Wackojacko
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