I back up my DVDs. I rip them to H264 using handbrake and then store the originals in a DVD holder and hopefully never have to touch, or scratch, them again. But I occasionaly run into a DVD that I can play, but I can’t copy. Shoot Em Up is a good example. So here is how to dump the stream to an mpeg that can then be used in handbrake with mplayer.
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile test.mpg -chapter 1-17 dvd://1
Should be pretty obvious, but chapter is the title chapters and dvd://1 is your dvd drive title number 1.
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June 4th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
This is just awesome. I wanted to do the same, back up DVDs, and keep them tucked away in storage somewhere. And maybe exclude mandatory commercials they are holding viewers hostage to view content they purchased.
June 4th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
That would do it. I use it to grab the mpeg stream and then I usually convert it to H.264 at about 1800 kbps. Cuts the size fairly dramatically and if you use some of the more higher profile h.264 options you don’t lose a lot in the way of color or blocking.