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How to rip a DVD to DivX/XviD/H264 usingDVD::Rip

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In this step-by-step tutorial I will explain how to transcode a DVD using DVD::Rip. DVD::Rip is

a graphical DVD ripper based on Transcode for Linux users. In other words it is a fully DVDcopy program written in Perl that allows you to control all aspects of the ripping and transcodingprocess. Transcode is yet another linux text-console utility to encode raw video/audio streams

extracted from, for example, DVD or Digital Video sources to DivX;-) or OpenDivX AVI files.

By default this free ripping software doesn't support copying encrypted DVD's which is illegal in

many countries. If there are no legal issues in your country you can install libdvdcss2 to decrypt

encrypted DVD's. Here are two tutorials for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 and Fedora Cambridge10.

How to install libdvdcss2 in Ubuntu

How to install libdvdcss in Fedora

Install DVD::Rip from your distribution's repositories and run it. This is the program's mainwindow.

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First you must check if you have all the needed dependencies install. Go to Debug -> CheckDependencies (or press Ctrl+D). Here as you can see I am missing xvid4conf and rar. Just use

your PMS (Package Management System) e.g. Synaptic or Yum, to install anything that is

missing. Once you do just restart DVDRip.

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Now let's make some settings. Go to Edit -> Edit Preferences (or press Ctrl+P).

The first tab is Basic Settings. Choose your DVD device and the directories where all data will

be saved. Also set the preffered languages for the subtitles.

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In the Commands tap leave everything as it is unless you know what you are doing.

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Same in the Cluster options tab. The cluster is only useful if you have many computers you wantto use to rip a DVD movie simultaneouslly thus making the ripping process faster.

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Finally in the Miscellaneous options you can select the video codec for the ripping. Here I am

going to use the XviD codec, but there are other options available such as DivX, VCD andffmpeg (which gives mpeg4 and h264 output). The available container formats are avi, mpeg and

ogg. I will use avi. If you want to rip the DVD for a mobile device select ogg. If you select ogg

you can choose between .ogg and .ogm file extensions depending on what your mobile device,phone etc. uses. Finally you can either grab subtitles of your preffered language, grab all subtitles

or grab no subtitles at all.

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When you are done with all the settings just press the Ok button. Now insert a DVD movie into

your DVD-rom drive. In the main program window click File -> New Project (or press Ctrl+N).Give your project a name, let's say MyMovie, and press the Create Project button. Just press Ok

in the pop up window. Apart from the DVD device you can select a DVD image directory from

you hard disk to encode into Divx/XviD. It is recommended to Copy data from DVD to yourhard disk before encoding so as not to stretch your DVD drive plus it's faster.

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Now go to the Rip Title tab and press Read DVD table of Contents. The longest Title is the mainmovie (1). Select the Audio track (2) you want to rip and the viewing Angle (3), if there are

angles included in the movie. Again you can select which subtitles you want to grab (4). In the

Specify chapter mode (5) if you select None all chapters will be encoded into a single video files,

if you choose All the output will be a different video file for each Chapter in the Title, and if youselect Selection you can rip only one or more (by holding the Ctrl key) Chapters. You can also

use the View Selected Title/Chapters button (5) to make sure you have selected the correct one.When you are ready click the Rip selected Titles/Chapters button (6) and wait until the DVD isripped into your hard disk.

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Once the ripping is finished go to the Clip and Zoom tab. Here dvd::rip should have taken apreview frame from the movie. If not or if you think the image isn't representative enough grab a

new one by entering a frame number and pressing Grab frame (1). The grabbed image will

appear in the preview section three times. The first shows the image after the first clipping, the

second after resizing and the third after the second clipping. Normally you don't have to makesomething else in here. However if you want to make some changes manually you are advised to

use the default presets (2). If you check the available presets you will see Fast Resizing and HQResize. The difference isn't so visible so just leave Fast Resize or make your own tests anddecide. If you want to have a specific width or height for your movie while keeping the correct

aspect ratio, you can use these buttons (3). E.g. you want to define the height, then enter your

value to the Height entry and press Calc width afterwards. The same applies vice versa, if you

want to define the width and like to have the proper height calculated.

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Let's continue to the Subtitles tab. dvd::rip supports two subtitle modes: rendering and vobsubgeneration. If you render the subtitle e.g. hardcode them on them you can't switch them off or

change their appearance afterwards. So if you don't mind having subtitles in a different vobsub

file this is the best option. The quality remains the same as the original DVD and you can switch

them off if you want. dvd::rip doesn't support ripping subtitles into .srt format. You can read myguideHow to rip DVD subtitles to .srt in Linuxif you are interested on this.

So if you want to hardcode your subtitle tick Activate this subtitle for rendering (1). If haven'tpreviously clipped the movie a value of 0 is good for the Vertical offset, however if you had

you'd better increase this value. Also turn on Antialiasing (2) to get smoother subtitles. You can

also change the color of the subtitles if you like (3). To test what you have done select the

number of frames you want to preview and click the Open button (4).

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In case you want to create a VobSub file just press the Create now (1) button.

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Now we are ready for the encoding part. Go to the Transcode tab. First you must set thecontainer (1). Avi is ok. Next select the Video Codec (2). Here I will use xvid but you can select

ffmpeg and set h264 for the ffmpeg/af6 codec which gives smaller output files for the same

video quality. Next select the size of the output video (3). Normally 700MB files are fine. In the

Audio options you can choose between the mp3 and ac3 formats. Here I will use mp3 with128bits samplerate which gives a good sound quality. When you are ready press the Transcode

button (4). Of course there are many other options to play with but explaining here would need alot more of pages. However you can play a little yourself and check what your eyes and ears likebetter. ;)

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Now let your CPU do the rest. You final encoded video will be ready in a "few" minutes!

How to install libdvdcss2 in Ubuntu

The libdvdcss2 package is not available from the Ubuntu repositories due to licensing and legalrestrictions. So, open a terminal and type:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Next, add the GPG Key:

sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring

sudo apt-get update

For i386 and amd64 Users install the Codecs by typing:

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2Note that using the above download locations you can install most

of the multimedia codecs such as w32codecs, w64codecs, amrnb, amrnb etc. for ubuntu.

How to install libdvdcss in Fedora

To install libdvdcss in Fedora (Cambridge) 10 you must use the external livna repository. Just

type:

su -rpm -Uvhhttp://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm

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