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On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want |
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> copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up |
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> about the movies. Since disc is cheap |
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> ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around |
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> with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 |
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> is fine for now, unless the process can |
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> be automated (see schema below). Naturally |
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> being able to store video in different formats |
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> would be a big plus. |
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> I'm very flexible on the DB so any software |
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> package that already exists in a (gui) tool |
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> form, so that I can set it up with simple |
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> instructions for an adolescent to: |
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> load the dvd |
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> execute the script or simple procedure |
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> wait until dvd movie is stored on disk |
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> then swap out for another DVD... |
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> |
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> <rinse and repeat 500+ times> |
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> What software exists, or what software |
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> would be easy to script up such an endeavor? |
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Basically all of the GUI DVD-ripping/recoding software are just shells |
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to run the commandline tools like transcode, ffmpeg, mencoder etc. |
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If you find a GUI tool to do as you wish, it should be trivial to look |
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in its logs and see exactly which commands it ran and then put that |
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into a shell script for repeated usage. |
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Ripping the original DVD contents is the easy part (just use vobcopy), |
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converting it to any other format can be more tricky because you get |
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problems like audio and video being out of sync that sometimes can't |
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be fixed without manual tuning. |
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