[mythtv-users] slightly OT: creating a video on demand library

Matt Garman garman at raw-sewage.net
Mon Jan 10 14:26:55 EST 2005


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:37:29AM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> FYI, when I rip, I only take the movie VOB.  I have one file per

But how do you know which one is "the" movie VOB?  Couldn't multiple
VOBs make up the movie?  I found the following link:

        http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dvd-structure.htm

Which states that each VOB can only be up to 1 GB in size.  *And*,
a VOB itself contains several streams multiplexed together.  So, my
question was along the lines of: how do I determine which VOBs make
up the movie.  Once I have isolated those VOBs, how do I strip out
the extra streams that I don't want (such as foreign languages,
different camera angles, etc)?

> movie and that's it.  Sounds like you have complete DVD rips,
> which indeed you did mention originally.  Perhaps you would be

Yup, that is what I have, but I assumed that I would be deleting
and/or modifying parts of that, i.e. "transforming" the complete rip
into one file that contains nothing but the movie itself.

> better ripping as ISO files and loopback mounting them for
> xine/mplayer and treating them as complete discs rather than a
> collection of files.  Adding the .ISO to MythVideo and setting up
> the appropriate play script would work then.

And I would do that, if space wasn't an issue.  The whole point of
stripping the DVD of extra features is to save on disk space.

I figured what I'm doing is fairly common---do most people just copy
the DVD as an ISO image and store those?

Thanks again!
Matt

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