Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 18:27:59 Stroller wrote: I've got a Perl script to wrapper `dvdbackup mkisofs`, reduce typing a little and do some error-checking. It tries to preserve some of the DVD metadata (TITLE c), and you might find it handy if handing off disk-swapping to your teenage

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/3/2011, at 12:44pm, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2011 18:27:59 Stroller wrote: I've got a Perl script to wrapper `dvdbackup mkisofs`, reduce typing a little and do some error-checking. ... In the next version I'd like to remove the unskippable flag from all titles /

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 16 March 2011 13:54:57 Stroller wrote: On 16/3/2011, at 12:44pm, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2011 18:27:59 Stroller wrote: I've got a Perl script to wrapper `dvdbackup mkisofs`, reduce typing a little and do some error-checking. ... In the next version I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 16 March 2011 15:17:14 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 16 March 2011 13:54:57 Stroller wrote: On 16/3/2011, at 12:44pm, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 09 March 2011 18:27:59 Stroller wrote: I've got a Perl script to wrapper `dvdbackup mkisofs`, reduce typing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: As for the unskippable flag, I wonder if the other tools rebuild the menu structure and remove it that way. I have in the past played with making dvd- menus myself and it wasn't too hard. (following the howtos) It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-12 Thread Gregory Fontenele
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 20:28, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:34:02 +, Stroller wrote: MythTV uses a perl script for the IMDB lookup, you could adapt that to another setup. However, MythTV also handles all

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:34:02 +, Stroller wrote: MythTV uses a perl script for the IMDB lookup, you could adapt that to another setup. However, MythTV also handles all the database stuff. A recording is a recording, whether copied from a TV card or a DVD. In referring to MythTV's

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-09 Thread Stroller
On 8/3/2011, at 6:09pm, James wrote: ... I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up about the movies. Since disc is cheap ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 is fine for now, unless the

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:27:59 +, Stroller wrote: There are some questions in your original post that I haven't addressed. I don't know that there's any perfect solution in existence for this kind of consumer management of media files. I'm pretty sure MythTV does some clever lookup of

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-09 Thread Stroller
On 9/3/2011, at 10:37pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:27:59 +, Stroller wrote: ... I'm pretty sure MythTV does some clever lookup of metadata at the IMDB and adds cover art and stuff, but MythTV's focus is on TV recording(s), not DVDs; it probably handles DVDs pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Fernando Freire
James, It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk ripping/conversion process. -Fernando On Mar 8, 2011 11:04 AM, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up about the movies. Since disc is cheap ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around with conversion or compression,

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Vincent-Xavier JUMEL
From what I understand, you want to automate a ripping process. Ripping is the easy part since you don't want to bother with encoding. In my opinion, you should had a udev line that fire up a mencoder/transcode/vlc/vobcopy/your favourite encoder/copier session, clean the swap and then eject the

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:25:33 -0800, Fernando Freire wrote: It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk ripping/conversion process.