[Cialug] DVD Ripping

[Mark Hesseltine]

On 7/10/07, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 05:46, Todd Walton wrote:
> >On 7/9/07, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> >> Has anyone done that? What software did you use to rip the DVDs?
> >> I'll want to create files that have the video, the audio tracks, and
> >> the subtitle tracks all in one file (without the subtitles burned
> >> into the image as some software does).
> >
> >Maybe ISO9660?
>
> Sorry to be a pest, but do you have a link for that? As one might
> expect, Googling for ISO9660 gets lots of information about the
> low-level format of optical discs, but little about DVD ripping.
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded. From the web pages i've checked out
> nothing is quite perfect for what i want, but maybe i can cobble
> together a script that will do what i want. It seems few rippers will
> bundle the subtitles into the same file without burning them into the
> image; i'd rather end up with something like a Matroska file where
> there can be multiple subtitle tracks all in the same file and it is
> the media player's responsibility to play one at the user's request.
>
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dvdbackup, available from

http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

Does a good job of duplicating the DVD structure on the hard drive.
>From there, you can play the "DVD" using Xine with a command like:

xine dvd://path/to/dvdbackup/files

It will work just like the regular DVD, complete with menus, alternate
language tracks, subtitles, etc.
-- 
Mark Hesseltine
mailto:markhesseltine at gmail.com