Flexion.Org Blog» DVD Archives – Flexion.Org Blog http://blog.flexion.org Bad grammar and typos for total strangers Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Flexion.Org Blog http://www.flexion.org/gravatar.jpeg http://blog.flexion.org Bad grammar and typos for total strangers DVD to MPEG2-TS Ripper for Linux http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/12/04/dvd-mpeg2ts-ripper-linux/ http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/12/04/dvd-mpeg2ts-ripper-linux/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:53:58 +0000 Martin http://blog.flexion.org/?p=289 A while back I released a script that rips a DVD to MPEG-2 PS allowing the user to select one audio stream and one subtitle stream. Optionally the video can be requantised, using M2VRequantiser and an ISO image created. If creating an ISO image the chapters are also preserved from the original DVD. You can see the original post below.

I’ve just released an update to that original script which fixes subtitles in the original MPEG-2 PS mode but now adds the capability to rip MPEG-2 TS. The video stream can still be shrunk and in MPEG-2 PS mode the video is still
requantised but in MPEG-2 TS mode the video is re-encoded as H.264. Requantising is faster but can introduce artifacting. H.264 encoding is slower, but produces very good quality. I am currently re-importing my entire DVD collection, using this script, to my DLNA server using MPEG-2 TS and re-encoding the video to H.264. This gives me high quality rips at relatively small size (~3Gb) whilst preserving Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. Perfect for playback via DLNA on the PS3 :-)

Some things to be aware of:

  • Subtitles are only supported in MPEG-2 PS mode.
  • MPEG-2 PS files created by this script are DVD compliant.
  • ISO files created by this script will preserve the chapters from the original DVD.
  • The PS3 can only play DTS audio in MPEG-2 PS streams when they have been authored to DVD.
  • The PS3 can only play subtitles in MPEG-2 PS streams when they have been authored to DVD.
  • The PS3 can’t play DTS audio in MPEG-2 TS streams therefore this script will transcode DTS to AC3 when in MPEG-2 TS mode.

If you are running Ubuntu then I strongly suggest you add the Avenard repository to your system as it includes recent builds of mplayer and x264.

To download the script and find out how to make full use of it visit the release page below.

]]> http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/12/04/dvd-mpeg2ts-ripper-linux/feed/ 3 DVD to MPEG2-PS Ripper for Linux http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/04/23/dvd-mpeg2ps-ripper-linux/ http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/04/23/dvd-mpeg2ps-ripper-linux/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:50:31 +0000 Martin http://blog.flexion.org/?p=244 Every so often I find myself in looking through the ex-rental DVD “bargain bin”. Quite often I find something I consider a bargain. However, the experience of watching an ex-rental DVD is typically ruined by the various trailers and marketing guff at the start which you can’t skip. My wife hates that stuff, and I love my wife, so I routinely rip the main feature of newly acquired ex-rental DVD movies so we can avoid that crap. I run a Mediatomb DLNA server and I want to load it with all my DVDs. Ripping them helps reduce the amount of storage I will require. MPEG2-PS files are compatible with my PS3 which is the client to my Mediatomb DLNA server.

As a solution to the above I created this script, which can extract the main feature from a DVD video, allowing the user to select one audio stream and one subtitle stream. Optionally the video can be requantised, using M2VRequantiser, and an ISO image created. If creating an ISO image the chapters are also preserved from the original DVD.

  • See the Code section of my site for the download and more details.

DVD-toMPG.sh was released on April 23rd 2009 to help celebrate St. George’s Day.

]]> http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/04/23/dvd-mpeg2ps-ripper-linux/feed/ 2 Converting DVB-T to DVD Compliant MPEG-2 http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/01/22/converting-dvb-t-to-dvd-compliant-mpeg-2/ http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/01/22/converting-dvb-t-to-dvd-compliant-mpeg-2/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:46:26 +0000 Martin http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2009/01/22/converting-dvb-t-to-dvd-compliant-mpeg-2/ I am just about to clean up and convert another batch of programmes I have recorded from Freeview (DVB-T in the UK) so that I can add them to my DLNAServer. I thought I’d share the method I use on Ubuntu.

By clean up, I mean edit out any adverts and trim crap from the start and the end of the recordings. It just so happends that the result of this process is a DVD compliant MPEG-2 which is suitable for DVD authoring, or in my case, streaming around the house. This method of conversion should work for any DVB PVR which allows you to export recordings via USB and, of course, MythTV or similar.

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