Ripping

Movies

Disc dump

DVD

Dump DVD contents to hard drive ¹:

  mplayer dvd://${TITLE} -dvd-device /dev/sr0 -dumpstream -dumpfile ${NAME}.vob

Blu-ray

Dump Blu-ray contents to hard drive ²,³:

  makemkvcon backup disc:0 ${NAME}/ --decrypt

or:

  dumphd /media/cdrom ${NAME}/

Chapters

DVD

Get chapters and subtitle Information ⁴:

  dvdxchap -t ${TITLE} /dev/sr0 > chapters.txt
  cp /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO .

Subtitles

DVD

Rip subtitle tracks to disk ⁵:

  mencoder ${NAME}.vob -nosound -ovc copy -o /dev/null -vobsubout output-sub -sid 0 -vobsuboutindex 0 -vobsuboutid en

Rip subtitle tracks (e.g. 0x20 for sid 0) to disk ⁶:

  tccat -i ${NAME}.vob | tcextract -x ps1 -t vob -a ${HEXSID} > sid-${SID}
  subtitle2vobsub -o output-${SID}.sub -i VTS_01_0.IFO -a ${SID} < sid-${SID}

Audio

FFmpeg

Dump audio tracks to hard drive ⁷:

  ffmpeg -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -map 0:2 -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -metadata:s:a:0 title="English audio" -codec:a copy output-eng.ac3
  ffmpeg -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -map 0:3 -metadata:s:a:0 language=spa -metadata:s:a:0 title="Spanish audio" -codec:a copy output-spa.ac3
  ffmpeg -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -map 0:4 -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng -metadata:s:a:0 title="English commentary" -codec:a copy output-1.ac3

MPlayer

Dump audio tracks to hard drive ⁸:

  mplayer ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -aid 0 -dumpaudio -dumpfile output-eng.ac3
  mplayer ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -aid 1 -dumpaudio -dumpfile output-spa.ac3
  mplayer ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -aid 2 -dumpaudio -dumpfile output-1.ac3

Video

Get cropping information ⁹:

  mplayer ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -vf cropdetect -sb 50000000

FFmpeg

Create a 2min. sample encoding ¹⁰:

  ffmpeg -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -ss 00:10:00 -t 00:02:00 -an -sn -c:v libx264 -x264opts ${PARAMETERS} -filter:v crop=${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT}:${X}:${Y} sample.264

Encode the video ¹¹:

  ffmpeg -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -an -sn -c:v libx264 -x264opts ${PARAMETERS} -filter:v crop=${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT}:${X}:${Y} output.264

Parameters for noise reduction ¹²:

  ffmpeg -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -filter:v hqdn3d output-denoised.264

MEncoder

Create a 2min. sample encoding ¹³:

  mencoder ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -ss 00:10:00 -endpos 00:02:00 -nosub -nosound -profile ${PRESET} -ovc x264 -x264encopts ${PARAMETERS} -vf crop=${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT}:${X}:${Y} -of rawvideo -o sample.264

Encoding the video ¹⁴,¹⁵:

  mencoder ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -nosub -nosound -profile ${PRESET} -ovc x264 -x264encopts ${PARAMETERS} -vf crop=${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT}:${X}:${Y} -of rawvideo -o output.264

Parameters for noise reduction ¹⁶:

  mencoder ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -vf denoise3d -o output-denoised.264

HandBrake

Create a 2min. sample encoding ¹⁷:

  HandBrakeCLI -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} --start-at duration:10 --stop-at duration:130 -a none -Z ${PRESET} -e x264 -x ${PARAMETERS} -w ${WIDTH} -l ${HEIGHT} -o sample.mkv

Encoding the video ¹⁸:

  HandBrakeCLI -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} -a none -Z ${PRESET} -e x264 -x ${PARAMETERS} -w ${WIDTH} -l ${HEIGHT} -o output.mkv

Parameters for noise reduction ¹⁹:

  HandBrakeCLI -i ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob} --nlmeans -o output-denoised.mkv

Multiplexing

Merge all multimedia streams in a Matroska container ²⁰,²¹:

  mkvmerge --title "${MOVIE_TITLE}" --chapters chapters.txt --default-duration 0:${VIDEO_FPS}fps --default-language eng --clusters-in-meta-seek --disable-lacing -A output.264 output-eng.ac3 --language 0:spa output-spa.ac3 --track-name 0:"Commentary" output-1.ac3 output-${SID}.idx -o video.mkv

Merge directly from an MPLS file into a Matroska container:

  mkvmerge --title "${MOVIE_TITLE}" --default-duration 0:${VIDEO_FPS}fps --default-language eng --clusters-in-meta-seek --disable-lacing --video-tracks 0 --audio-tracks 1,2,3 --language 2:spa --track-name 3:"Commentary" --subtitle-tracks 7 ${PLAYLIST}.mpls -o video.mkv

Screenshots

Get screenshot of source and encode files ²²:

  mplayer -noautosub -nosub -nosound -vo png:z=0 -frames 1 -ss 00:20:00 -loop 1 -vf crop=${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT}:${X}:${Y},scale=${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT} ${NAME}.{m2ts,vob}
  mplayer -noautosub -nosub -nosound -vo png:z=0 -frames 1 -ss 00:20:00 -loop 1 -vf scale=${WIDTH}:${HEIGHT} video.mkv

Video Games

Convert from ECM to BIN and CUE ²³:
```
  ecm-uncompress ${NAME}.bin.ecm
```

Convert from APE to BIN:

  ffmpeg -i ${NAME}.ape ${NAME}.wav
  genisoimage -R -o ${NAME}.bin ${NAME}.wav