DVD to MPEG2-TS Ripper for Linux

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 [...]

Posted on December 4, 2009 at 7:53 am by Martin · Permalink · 3 Comments
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IMDB Film Summary as a MPEG2 video, Part 2

Back in April I released a script to create a MPEG video summarising a movie using data from IMDB, you can find the original post in the URL below to learn why I created such a script in the first place.

IMDB Film Summary as a MPEG2 video

Today I’ve release v2.0 of that script, which is [...]

Posted on September 20, 2009 at 8:48 am by Martin · Permalink · 9 Comments
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MP3Gainer – Apply ReplayGain to your entire music library

Work has been crazy. We’re moving house. Hence, not much time for geeky stuff recently.
I’ve been putting this off for ages, I need to “normalise” the volume of my MP3 music music library. Not all CDs sound equally loud. Whilst different musical moods require that some tracks should sound louder than others, the loudness of [...]

Posted on August 14, 2009 at 3:25 pm by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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PlayStation 3 compaitble MPEG-4 container repacker

Some of my mobile phones have been able to record video clips in MPEG-4 format. Sadly some of these clips don’t play on the PlayStation 3 and those that do stutter terribly. I use ‘iplayer-dl‘ to download content from BBC iPlayer. Sadly the files are in a Quicktime container and are not playable on the [...]

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 5:09 pm by Martin · Permalink · 4 Comments
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MKV to M2TS conversion script

The Play Station 3 can’t play MKV file. Therefore I’ve written a script that creates a PlayStation 3 compatible M2TS from a MKV, assuming video is H.264 and audio is AC3 or DTS with as little re-encoding as possible. Any subtitles in the MKV are preserved in the M2TS although the PS3 can’t display subtitles [...]

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 5:00 pm by Martin · Permalink · 16 Comments
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