Ripping DVDs with Mencoder

Install the necessary programs

On Debian: (substitute k7 with 586 for Intel users)

apt-get install mplayer-k7 mencoder-k7 ogmtools libdvdcss dvdbackup

On Gentoo:

emerge mplayer ogmtools libdvdcss dvdbackup

On other distributions, use the appropriate package management tools to install mplayer, mencoder (which may be part of the mplayer package), ogmtools, libdvdcss and dvdbackup.

Rip & Unencrypt the DVD

Change to a directory on a disk with 10GiB+ free.

Backup the DVD with: (where MyDVD is the name of your project)

dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o MyDVD
cd MyDVD
ls

You should see one directory. I will call this directory $RIPDIR.

If you get key errors

If your DVD was from the wrong region and dvdbackup says it was unable to get the CSS keys, don't panic. Libdvdcss doesn't give a damn about regions (quite rightly), but it needs some help - you need to use ide-scsi. Unlike that Redmond OS, it also doesn't matter what region your drive is in (or RPC-I / RPC-II firmware), it just works :)

Exception:: Matsushita / Matshita / Panasonic (all synonyms) drives will mostly not work. You need to get a patched firmware from somewhere like http://www.rpc1.org/ Follow this procedure:

* Compile your kernel with ide-scsi and when you boot up, pass the kernel the argument hdc=ide-scsi (where hdc is the name of your dvdrom device).
- OR
- If you have ide-scsi as a module, modprobe it (with the right options, which I don't know)

Try again.
If you now find your dvdrom is dead slow and your machine unuseable when you rip, you need to follow this procedure to enable DMA.

$ mkdir tmp-dev
$ cd tmp-dev
$ sudo MAKEDEV hdc                        # Where hdc is the name of your dvdrom
$ sudo hdparm -d1 hdc
$ cd ..
$ sudo rm -rf tmp-dev

Of course when you want to write DVDs, ide-scsi must be off. Life is tough :)

Determine Encoding Parameters

Title

DVDs are made up of a number of titles. Generally, each video on the DVD is a title (i.e. main feature is title 1, behind the scenes documentary is title 2, etc.)

First we need to determine which title we want to rip. You can use xine, totem, ogle, etc. for this:

totem dvd://$RIPDIR

Navigate to the main feature and see what Title your player says it is. I will call it $TITLE

Cropping

The movie probably has lots of black space around it. We might as well get rid of it to save some file space (and a little screen space).

mplayer -dvd-device $RIPDIR dvd://$TITLE -vf cropdetect -ss 50:00

Let it play for a little, (until you reach a bit where you can see the edges of the picture) then quit. You will see output like:

crop area: X: 3..653  Y: 74..502  (-vf crop=640:416:10:80)1.2% 0 0 43%
crop area: X: 3..653  Y: 74..502  (-vf crop=640:416:10:80)1.2% 0 0 43%

Replace cropdetect with the crop command above and run mplayer again. It should have the picture perfectly cropped:

mplayer -dvd-device $RIPDIR dvd://$TITLE -vf crop=640:416:10:80 -ss 50:00

I will call that 640:416:10:80 bit $CROP.

Scaling

Scaling options:

Don't rescale at all (will only play nicely in mplayer and other decent players if it isn't 4:3).
- You will need to add :autoaspect to the -lavcopts string for mencoder.
- For a high-quality rip, this is the option.

Rescale to square pixels without resing.
- To do so you must look for the line like VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12 in your mplayer output.
- The second set of dimentions is the one you want to scale to.
- I will say $SCALE=scale=1024:720. (This must go in the -vf)

Rescale and resize.
- I often resize to a vertical height of 368 (a multiple of 16). You can choose whatever multiple you want.
- Then (either by calculation or trial and error using -vf scale -xy 650 and tweaking the 650), find the width
- I will say $SCALE=scale=654:368. (This must go in the -vf)

Three-pass encode

There are serveral different ways to encode the video. The best quality is obtained by having three (main) separate passes:

Extract Audio
- Encode Audio (this is a separate step if we are using OGG/Vorbis

Examine Video to determine the compressability of each frame.
Compress Video
Merge audio and video (if it is an OGG or Matroska file.)

The advantages of a three pass encode are that we can get exactly the right file size (for, say, 2 CDs), and we can use containers besides AVI (which sucks big time compared to OGM and Matroska).

Extract frameno and audio

AVI

If you want an avi, encode your audio like this:

mencoder -dvd-device $RIPDIR dvd://$TITLE -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -o frameno.avi

It will tell you some bitrates to use for various common rip-sizes based on the audio size.

For ogg, rip the audio: (you can tweak the ogg quality as necessary)

mplayer -dvd-device $RIPDIR dvd://$TITLE -vc dummy -vo null -hardframedrop -ao pcm:file=audio.wav
normalize-audio audio.wav
oggenc -q 2.5 audio.wav

Additional audio tracks can be ripped using mplayer's -aid option. Find the right id with -identify and some trial and error.

Extract chapter points (ogg only)

dvdxchap -t $TITLE $RIPDIR > chapters.txt

Encode video

Feel free to tweak bitrate (and other lavc options):

mencoder -dvd-device $RIPDIR dvd://$TITLE -vf crop=$CROP $SCALE \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vqmin=2:autoaspect:vpass=1 \
-oac copy -o /dev/null
mencoder -dvd-device $RIPDIR dvd://$TITLE -vf crop=$CROP $SCALE \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vqmin=2:autoaspect:vpass=2 \
-oac copy -o video.avi

Remember that $SCALE might or might not be part of -vf (-vf options are comma seperated)

For a high-quality rip, I generally use a bitrate of 1500. If I'm rescaling down to a height of 384, I use 1000.

For really high-quality at the expense of encoding time, add :v4mv:mbd=2:trell to your -lavcopts.

If you don't want to preview your avi at this stage, you can replace -oac copy with -nosound. We will totally ignore the sound track in this avi file at the ogmmerge stage.

Merge OGM file

ogmmerge -o "Title.ogm" -c "LANGUAGE=English" audio.ogg chapters.txt -c "TITLE=Title" -A video.avi

For extra audio tracks, add in -c "LANGUAGE=English: Director Commentry" audio-c.ogg for example.

Two-pass encode

For a two pass encode, we are forced to end up with an AVI (or an MPG). Video quality remains the same as for three passes, though. It isn't much shorter, time-wise...:

Examine Video
Encode Video & Audio and mux into AVI.

For this, skip the Frameno and Merge OGM steps. Change the -oac option on your second video pass mencoder command from copy to mp3lame.

One-pass encode

For a one pass encode, we have the same restrictions as for two passes, but it takes about half the time (at the expense of video quality):

Encode and mux into AVI.

Now, we skip the first pass of the video encode, and remove the vpass=2 option from the mencoder command. You must make the same change to -oac as for two-pass.

Subtitles

DVDs have subtitles stored as images. There are some options for dealing with them:

Extract them and keep them as images (vobsubs).
- You cannot add this to the OGM file. You have to distribute it as a separate file.
- It isn't that big - about 4MB on average.
- You have to manually tell your player (which must be decent) to use the subtitle file.
OCR them and add them to the OGM file.
- This takes a couple of hours of your time, but it is nice to do the job properly...

Extracting the subtitles

mplayer -dvd-device $RIPDIR dvd://$TITLE -identify

Look for ID_SUBTITLE_ID lines. These tell you what subtitles are available.

Now we use transcode to extract them:

tccat -i $RIPDIR -T $TITLE -L | tcextract -x ps1 -t vob -a 0x22 > subs-en

where 0x22 is 0x20 + the subtitle ID.

If you want vobsub files:

subtitle2vobsub -o vobsubs-en -i $RIPDIR/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO < subs-en

OCRing

Right, lets make our lives really nasty and create hundreds of PGM files:

subtitle2pgm -o english -c 255,0,0,255 < subs-en

Each subtitle should now be one pgm file, and a srtx file will be created to index them and their times on-screen.

Now to ocr all that with gocr (using a nice wrapper for the job):

pgm2txt english

It will prompt you for tons of characters that it doesn't understand, and often totally bugger them up even when you give it the correct ones (it reads part of what it showed you again as another character...)

We will re-merge all these text files produced into a big subtitle file:

srttool -s -w < english.srtx > english.srt

Now it's time to proofread. I prefer to go through each one manually:

display *.pgm &
vim english.srt

You can use spacebar to advance your images in display.

Gocr is very predictable, so if it makes a mistake once, it will do it again, a lot! Use your editor's regular expression features whenever you spot a mistake to correct all the instances. It saves time.

Then spell check:

aspell -l british -c english.srt

You can now add english.srt onto the end of your ogmmerge command. Oh, and stick a -c LANGUAGE=English before it ;-)

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