how to rip a dvd

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==Get Utilities==
sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder mpeg4ip-utils mpeg4ip-server subtitleripper ogmtools mkvtoolnix

==Prepare==
===Detect Cropping===
mplayer dvd://1 -frames 4 -vf cropdetect -sb 50000000 -nosound -vo null 2>/dev/null | grep CROP
  [CROP] Crop area: X: 8..719  Y: 0..479  (-vf crop=704:480:12:0).
  [CROP] Crop area: X: 7..719  Y: 0..479  (-vf crop=704:480:12:0).
*Skip first ~50mb, this is the title screen and is often a different size

===Choose a Bitrate===
2000

===Find Framerate===
$ mplayer -v dvd://1 -frames 4 -nosound -vo null 2>/dev/null | grep fps
  VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 3)  29.970 fps  8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
  [V] filefmt:2  fourcc:0x10000002  size:720x480  fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334

===Find Audio Track===
$ mplayer dvd://1 -frames 4 -nosound -vo null 2>/dev/null | grep "audio stream"
  audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: ja aid: 128.
  audio stream: 1 format: dts (5.1/6.1) language: ja aid: 137.
  
$ mplayer -aid 128 dvd://1 # double check

===Find Subtitles===
$ mplayer -v dvd://1 -frames 4 -nosound -vo null 2>/dev/null | grep subtitle
  subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: da
  subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: en
  number of subtitles on disk: 2
  ==> Found subtitle: 0
  ==> Found subtitle: 1
  ==> Found subtitle: 2

$ mplayer -sid 1 dvd://1 # double check

==Extract==
===Video===
$ mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.vob
or
$ vobcopy -m
$ mkisofs -r -o movie.iso /NEW_FOLDER/


===Audio===
$ mplayer movie.vob -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio.ac3 

===Chapters===
dvdxchap -t 1 /dev/dvd > chapters.txt

===Subtitles===
cp /mnt/dvd/video_ts/vts_01_0.ifo ./

==Encode==
===Video===
{|
| Description
| Encoding options
| speed (in fps)
| Relative PSNR loss (in dB)
|-
| Very high quality
| subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b
| 6fps
| 0dB
|-
| High quality
| subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b
| 13fps
| -0.89dB
|-
| Fast
| subq=4:bframes=2:b_pyramid:weight_b
| 17fps
| -1.48dB
|}
*high
mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=704:480:12:0,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
  bitrate=1500:subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=1 \
  -of rawvideo -o /dev/null

mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=704:480:12:0,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
  bitrate=1500:subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=1 \
  -of rawvideo -o movie.high.264

*medium 
mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=704:480:12:0,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
  bitrate=1500:subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=1 \
  -of rawvideo -o /dev/null

mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=704:480:12:0,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
  bitrate=1500:subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=2 \
  -of rawvideo -o movie.med.264

*low
mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=704:480:12:0,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
  bitrate=1500:subq=4:bframes=2:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=1 \
  -of rawvideo -o /dev/null

mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=704:480:12:0,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
  bitrate=1500:subq=4:bframes=2:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=2 \
  -of rawvideo -o movie.low.264


*other
mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=720:560:0:6,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
   bitrate=2000:subq=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:turbo=1:threads=auto:pass=1 \
  -of rawvideo -o /dev/null

mencoder movie.vob \
  -vf pullup,softskip,crop=720:560:0:6,harddup -nosound \
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts \
   bitrate=2000:subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto:pass=2 \
  -of rawvideo -o movie.264

mencoder -nosound dvd:// -dvd-device file.iso  
  -vf crop=xxx:xxx:xx:xx,scale,harddup 
  -ovc x264 -x264encopts 
  bitrate=1000:frameref=6:analyse=all:me=umh:subme=7:trellis=2:bframes=1:subq=7:brdo:mixed_refs:weight_b:bime:no_fast_pskip:direct_pred=auto:mixed_refs:nr=200:threads=auto:turbo=2:pass=1
-noskip -of rawvideo -o /dev/null

mencoder -nosound dvd:// -dvd-device file.iso 
-vf crop=xxx:xxx:xx:xx,scale,harddup 
-ovc x264 -x264encopts
  bitrate=1000:frameref=6:analyse=all:me=umh:subme=7:trellis=2:bframes=1:subq=7:brdo:mixed_refs:weight_b:bime:no_fast_pskip:direct_pred=auto:mixed_refs:nr=200:threads=auto:pass=2  
-noskip -of rawvideo  -o movie.264

===Subtitles===
tccat -i movie.vob -L | tcextract -x ps1 -t vob -a 0x21 > subs
subtitle2vobsub -o vobsubs -i vts_01_0.ifo -a 1 < ./subs

#double check
mkdir test
subtitle2pgm -o test/1 -c 255,0,0,255 < ./subs

*'''HEXSID''':  For SIDs 0 to 9, this translates into HEXSID 0x20 to 0x29

==Wrap==

===Video in MP4===
mp4creator -c movie.264 -rate 29.97 movie.mp4

===All in MKV===
mkvmerge --title "Movie Title" -o movie.mkv --chapters chapters.txt movie.mp4 audio.ac3

==Links==
*[http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/77/26/ k9copy howto]
*[http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DVD_to_Matroska HOWTO DVD to Matroska and H.264]
*[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-x264.html x264 mencoder options]