On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 05:44:59PM -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Hi, > > In preparation for my retirement in 2050, I am setting up a media server > for all my DVDs and CDs. > > For ripping CD's, I was planning to use abcde as follows: > > abcde -q high -o mp3
Hello, For long term storage you might want to consider a more modern format like flac (for lossless compression) or ogg/vorbis (better quality than mp3). I use cdparanoia and oggenc (for ogg/vorbis). I think abcde can use flac/vorbis too, but haven't used it. > For DVD's, I was thinking of stuff (thanks to Christian "naddy" Weisberger) > like > > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile i-robot.vob dvd://1 That solution has problems with multiple audio streams (IIRC) and subtitles. Also the compression rate can be improved if you use h264 or h265. Personally I use handbrake [1] with Matroska (mkv) as container (haven't tried that on OpenBSD though). Handbrake can't be automated AFAIK, but as I often need to manually adjust stuff like audio track languages or titles that isn't much of a problem. Regards Simon [1]: http://www.handbrake.fr/ -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
