stefan.becker - 2011-10-02

Help for lxdvdrip

Please respect all copyrights when using this program.
The copying of a video DVD is permitted only for private purposes.
Removing copy protection is not allowed.

For details, see the German copyright protection law: http://transpatent.com/gesetze/urhg.html

What is lxdvdrip?

lxdvdrip is a command line tool to make a copy from a video DVD for private Use.

It automates the process of DVD ripping, authoring, previewing and burning.

Features:

  • Automatic selection of the longest title
  • Automatic calculation of the re-quant factor
  • Automatic reading of the volume ID
  • Automatic chapter separation from the original
  • Ripping of the audio tracks in every language
  • Selection of the DTS audio tracks as default
  • Support for selection of two subpicture tracks
  • Support for ripping and re-authoring
  • Preview of VOB files with mplayer, xine, totem, kaffeine and vlc
  • Burning with growisofs or cdrecord, create iso-file
  • All program parameters can be stored in the config file as the program defaults
  • All parameters can be overwritten from the command line
  • Messages in English, French and German
  • Support for ripping of subpicture tracks
  • Copy main title w/o original menu
  • Copy DVD smaller than a DVD-R 1:1 with menus, > 4.7 GB with vamps, without menus.
  • Partial copy: copying of the selected titles from the DVD (dvdunauthor/vamps)
  • High quality backup (1 DVD9 => 2 DVD5)
  • Creating DVDs with menus for title, audio and chapter selection (dvdwizard)

Homepage and download:

The program requires the following tools to be installed:

  • dvdauthor: DVD structure (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdauthor)
  • mplayer: preview of VOB files (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)
  • growisofs or cdrecord: burning (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/)
  • vamps, transcode and/or mplayer: to rip (vamps included, http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode)
  • dvdbackup: for 1:1 copy DVD < 4.7 GB (included)
  • vamps: for 1:1 copy DVD > 4.7 GB (included)
  • dvdwizard: for menu structure (http://dvdwizard.wershofen.net/)

Download links and a list of all supported parameters can be found in the README files from the project archives.

It is possible to rip, re-quant and re-author the DVD in one step with vamps (lxdvdrip -st=vamps) or parallel transcoding (lxdvdrip -st=trans_par).

The traditional way to rip in 4 steps (rip video and re-quant, rip audio, mplex, dvdauthor) is supported as well. Use the command line parameter "-st=mplayer" to use mplayer or "-st=transcode" to use transcode.

lxdvdrip makes it possible to use all of the programs without giving any command line parameters.