On 2007-11-09, Christopher Tidy wrote:
In my opinion, chapters and menus and copyright warnings suck. To be
rid of them and just be able to watch the movie would be an
improvement.


I hold the same exact opinion.

The way I convert disks to AVIs is by using this script of mine. It
works with Linux.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Getopt::Long;

my $dvd = '/dev/dvd';
my $output = 'ripped.avi';

GetOptions( "dvd=s" = \$dvd,
"output=s" = \$output,
);

if( 0 ) {
system( "
transcode \\
-i $dvd -x dvd -T 1,-1 -g 720x480 -M 2 -V \\
-X 2,0 -Y 0,0 -s 4.47 \\
-t 83920,alien -y divx4 -w 1618 -f 23.976 \\
-U $output
"
);
} elsif( 0 ) {
system( "
transcode -i $dvd -x dvd -V -j 16,0 -B 5,0 -Y 40,8 -s 4.47 -U $output -y xvid -w 1618
" );
} elsif( 1 ) {
system( "
mencoder dvd:// -dvd-device $dvd -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -alang en -oac copy -o /dev/null
mencoder dvd:// -dvd-device $dvd -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1000 -alang en -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o $output
" );
}

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