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On Wednesday 16 March 2011 15:17:14 Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 16 March 2011 13:54:57 Stroller wrote: |
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> > On 16/3/2011, at 12:44pm, Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > > On Wednesday 09 March 2011 18:27:59 Stroller wrote: |
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> > >> I've got a Perl script to wrapper `dvdbackup && mkisofs`, reduce |
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> > >> typing a little and do some error-checking. ... In the next |
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> > >> version |
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> > >> I'd like to remove the "unskippable" flag from all titles / |
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> > >> chapters, |
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> > >> as it seems a little daft to have ripped all one's DVDs to a |
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> > >> network |
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> > >> RAID array, and yet still have to suffer the dumb FBI warnings. |
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> > >> All |
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> > >> the Windows rippers do this, so I assume it's possible to |
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> > >> implement, |
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> > >> but I have no idea how difficult. |
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> > > |
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> > > ... |
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> > > As for the "unskippable" flag, I wonder if the other tools "rebuild" |
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> > > the menu structure and remove it that way. I have in the past |
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> > > played with making dvd- menus myself and it wasn't too hard. |
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> > > (following the howtos) |
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> > |
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> > That one can make DVD menus with GUI Linux applications indicates that |
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> > it |
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> > must be possible to make such changes. I would imagine (or at least |
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> > hope) |
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> > that it's not so much a case of rebuilding the menus from scratch, but |
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> > just as case of flipping a single bit - the equivalent in a binary-file |
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> > of changing "skippable=no" to "yes" in a text file. |
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> > |
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> > What programs have you used to make DVD menus in the past? |
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> |
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> DVD Author, there are some howto's for it on the web, including on on the |
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> gentoo forums: |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 |
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> I don't know how that menu works, but if anyone knows which file contains |
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> it, we might be able to edit that bit. |
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> If anyone knows how to create the "dvd-author" xml-config-files from an |
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> existing DVD, I'm sure, with some clever scripting, we can amend that |
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> particular flag. It is in my todo-list, but it doesn't have a very high |
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> priority at the moment. |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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Stroller (and others), |
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While having a quick search, I found the following page: |
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http://old.nabble.com/dvdunauthor-xml-file-dump,-then-import-to-dvdauthor-with- |
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errors...-td20324985.html |
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This may be usefull to someone with good script-fu? :) |
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Joost |
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