There has been some discussion of this exact thing on the forums and after some good hints and a lot of research, I finally got it working.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have the kewl progress display the current Myth Rip does, but at least it gets the job done. I built a shell script to do it all (out of several pre-existing ones -- thanks for the great start Scott!) and then changed the Import DVD menu to Import DVD Track and added a menu Import Entire DVD, I also added Video Manager from Setup into this menu to have quick access to define IMDB info for the DVDs I rip without all that extra navigation. Here's what it does/I did: 1. Play sound1 to confirm to the user that ripping has started 2. I use dvdbackup to create a temporary directory that contains an exact copy of the dvd. It has the added side effect of not leaving the drive mounted after doing so. 3. I use mkisofs to create a single ISO image file from the directory tree created by dvdbackup. 4. I move the ISO to the myth/video directory and cleanup the temporary directory 5. Play sound2 to let the user know that ripping has finished and eject the drive for a further visual cue. 4. I edited Video Player settings and added the filetype ISO to it with the custom launch application of Xine (full-screen, etc.) which can read an ISO file and play menus correctly (mostly.) 5. I go into the Media Library, Watch Videos -- and voila! Single entries for entire DVDs with integrated IMDB info. Playing them will invoke Xine however, rather than mplayer as a result of the custom filetype mentioned above. I am working on a How-To that covers all these issues and will post them to this forum when complete. However, it's getting late tonight and I have to work in the morning so it probably won't be till next weekend before I have all the steps clearly defined so I don't get pummeled with support questions :-) However, if you know what you're doing and brave enough, (and the mailing list allows attachments) I have attached the script here for your exploration, however, I am not taking support emails about it for the time being. Please wait for the How To. NOTE that you should edit it and change the first block of parameters to match your system. Be sure to store it somewhere useful and give it the right +rx attributes and user/group permissions to run it from mythtv (not just root!) MikeE -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Salerno Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mythtv-users] DVD rip idea Has any thought been given to extending the DVD rip feature to include preservation of all the menus and special features? I think this could be done using vobcopy to do the ripping and xine to handle the playback. The main issue I see is that Myth would have to deal with the plurality of files which make up the DVD, as compared to the single "menuless" file used now. Perhaps creating a subfolder for each DVD ripped in "full menu" mode would be the answer, perhaps something more elegant could be devised. Heck, Myth might already be able to do this and I don't realize it. Any thoughts? -Russell
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