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suredeath Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 101 Location: Easterwood, N.Br., The Netherlands
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject: (re)compressing DVD video ? [closed] |
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While ripping and re-compressing DVD's was a walk in the park with *cough* windows *cough* and DVD-encrypter (maybe some of you know it), I can't seem to find any fairly easy-to-use Linux counterpart. Maybe I am just looking for the wrong keywords or in the wrong places. I am especially interested in the compression bit, ripping isn't much of an issue right now. Any good pointers/tips on what software to look for ? For instance I have a few 4.4Gb isos that just won't fit on a single DVD (any ideas where this 4.4Gb format comes from?, Never seen any DVDs that size) I'd like to further shrink to fit a regular DVD-R
BTW I don't necessarily mean I only want GUI apps, a CLI-program with good documentation will do just fine as well.
TIA
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frostschutz Advocate
Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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mencoder, transcode (both commandline that can do pretty much anything)
dvdrip (transcode frontend for dvd->avi,ogm,whatever compression/conversion) |
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suredeath Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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Ah great, I must have missed the bits on DVD recoding for mencoder. Thanks, back to the man pages.
(edit) I don't see any support for re/encoding to .VOB file format in mencoder docs. I'll look at the other ones...
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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suredeath,
dvdrip is a pretty front end to the CLI tools.
dvdshrink now has a Linux port, its CLI only _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
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suredeath Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot. I'll look into these asap! Diskspace urgently needed |
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yngwin Retired Dev
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:08 am Post subject: |
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I myself prefer Avidemux for video encoding / DVD backup. _________________ "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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suredeath Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 101 Location: Easterwood, N.Br., The Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: Shrinking VOBS back to VOBs |
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I just found this site: http://prettymad.net/scripts/vobshrink with a script that does all the work resizing existing DVD VOB file layouts.
Sofar it's the only thing I found that fits my needs, all the other suggested programs seem to have no particular features to shrink DVD video whilst keeping the VOB file layout. The only one I did not test was dvdshrink, it's a masked package and I decided not to go for it yet. I'll post the results here.
Thanks for your help sofar all! |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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suredeath,
The Windows version of dvdshrink runs under WINE, if you perfer the GUI _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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frostschutz Advocate
Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: (re)compressing DVD video ? |
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suredeath wrote: | For instance I have a few 4.4Gb isos that just won't fit on a single DVD (any ideas where this 4.4Gb format comes from?, Never seen any DVDs that size) |
What's wrong with 4.4GB anyway? DVD+-R has 4.7GB (4.37GiB, 4482MiB). Depending on how big your iso actually is, it could fit. Did you try? |
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madisonicus Veteran
Joined: 20 Sep 2006 Posts: 1130
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: (re)compressing DVD video ? |
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suredeath wrote: | For instance I have a few 4.4Gb isos that just won't fit on a single DVD (any ideas where this 4.4Gb format comes from?, Never seen any DVDs that size) I'd like to further shrink to fit a regular DVD-R. |
First, have you tried -overburn? I use it all the time to grab those last few hundred MB that aren't supposed to be there.
But if you still want to compress them further, check out these links:
- http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder
- http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide
- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html
As much as it may sound like "RTFM", then mplayer website has absolutely wonderful documentation. After a couple hours of reading and experimentation, I figured out how to get 2.5 hour movies down to about 1.6 GB with no apparent quality loss even at 1280x1024 resolution. x264 is brilliant.
It's going to depend on what you're planning on reading the compressed DVDs with, of course. Make sure what your DVD player can undo whatever compression you do apply.
-m |
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suredeath Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:38 am Post subject: |
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I found k9copy (there's an ebuild in Portage) which quite easily transcodes DVD-9 to DVD-5 or whatever size you like. Its GUI has an easy selector for subtitles, audiotracks, menus and disksize. Also I found some scripts that aim at automating several steps of the ripping, transcoding and burning process.
Thanks for all the input. I'm closing this topic.
@frostschutz: Sorry, I meant 4.4 GiB, just a tad too big. In the mean time I also found a few 4.6 GiB iso's. And yes I tried. Another issueu turned out to be a scratch on one of my DVD-RWs, which did not lead to unusability, but less space instead. Apparantly cdrecord is able to deal with damaged media. Or some miracle just happened to me;-) |
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