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

[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 like to remove the "unskippable" flag from all titles / chapters,
> >> as it seems a little daft to have ripped all one's DVDs to a network
> >> RAID array, and yet still have to suffer the dumb FBI warnings. All
> >> the Windows rippers do this, so I assume it's possible to implement,
> >> but I have no idea how difficult.
> >
> > ...
> > 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)
>
> That one can make DVD menus with GUI Linux applications indicates that it
> must be possible to make such changes. I would imagine (or at least hope)
> that it's not so much a case of rebuilding the menus from scratch, but just
> as case of flipping a single bit - the equivalent in a binary-file of
> changing "skippable=no" to "yes" in a text file.
>
> What programs have you used to make DVD menus in the past?

DVD Author, there are some howto's for it on the web, including on on the 
gentoo forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709

I don't know how that menu works, but if anyone knows which file contains it, 
we might be able to edit that bit.

If anyone knows how to create the "dvd-author" xml-config-files from an existing 
DVD, I'm sure, with some clever scripting, we can amend that particular flag.
It is in my todo-list, but it doesn't have a very high priority at the moment.

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Joost