[mythtv-users] Rip DVDs that are already on disk

[Dan Smith]

h264enc (in ubuntu repositories) works well but again doesn't keep
menus but does use chapters from dvds if exporting to mkv and probably
other containers I don't use, its CLI and works well with batch files.
You can import ISOs VIDEO_TS folders and anything your version of
mencoder supports, it exports x264 files in AVI, MKV, MP4, OGM, TS,
Blu-ray and AVCHD disc structure containers.
http://h264enc.sourceforge.net/

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Purple Streak
>> <mrpurplestreak at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> but this was asked subtly differently ;)   I actually prefer mail
>>> lists and had found the forums first.  I've managed to get the vob
>>> files appear after a fashion in mythtv - but it will just play the
>>> vobs and I thought it would start with the menus.
>>
>> If you rip to iso format, then place the iso in the mythvideo
>> directory, you'll get the menus.  You don't need to do this from
>> within the frontend.
>>
>>> Also I'd really rather transcode them to the smaller format the docs
>>> suggest you can do, but that involves having Myth rip the DVD (which I
>>> can't do here)
>>
>> I'm not aware of any easy way to transcode a DVD in such a way that
>> preserves menus and other DVD navigation stuff like that.  However, if
>> you don't care about that, you can transcode using any tool you like
>> and just place the resulting file in your mythvideo directory and
>> rescan to pick it up.
>>
>
> makemkv will preserve chapter points, but not menus (AFAIK). It
> doesn't transcode though, you end up with a mpeg2 stream in a mkv
> container. You could use handbrake or something to then transcode it
> and again maintain the chapter points.
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