[olug] DVD Ripping

[T. J. Brumfield]

Thanks for the info.  I'm not too worried about time per disc, though
with so many perhaps I should be.  I'd rather find something that
works well, and saves me from ripping multiple times, even if it takes
longer per rip.

I thought the big advantage of xvid was the small file size.  Xvid
rips are often under 1 gig.  But some of them aren't very good quality
that I can tell.

Depending on how small I get the movies, and how many HDDs I can
afford determines if I end up going RAID 1 or RAID 5.  I'm using over
500 gigs on my gaming rig right now, without a movie collection.

-- T. J.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:16 AM, John Hobbs <john at velvetcache.org> wrote:
> H.264 is pretty great, but can be slow to encode.  Most, uh, shared
> copies, of DVD's out there are going to be XVID/DIVX because they are
> pretty good and don't take forever to encode.  There are different
> "best" settings on those for different movie types, i.e. anime has
> different needs (more solid color swatches) then an action movie, so
> you might want to do things a genre at a time.
>
> As for applications, dvd::rip [0] is my favorite Linux app. and you
> can use it in a cluster to do your processing even faster.  Don't know
> how simple it would be to just "put in and rip" though, at the very
> least you'll need to change settings for different aspect ratios.
>
> [0] http://www2.exit1.org/dvdrip/
>
> - John Hobbs
>
> john at velvetcache.org
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:07 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have about 400 or so DVDs sitting on shelves behind me.  A long time
>> ago I ripped all my music and just got rid of all my CDs.  Given that
>> I can stream video wirelessly from my PC to either my hacked XBox, or
>> even better my PS3 and watch them on my big screen, do I need my DVD
>> collection anymore?  When I'm less broke (perhaps in the spring with
>> my tax rebate helping) I want to build a new gaming PC, but throw in
>> as many 1.5 TB (or 2 TB disks if they have them by then) disks as I
>> can afford, and my case/power supply can handle into a RAID.  After
>> than I'd like to rip all my DVDs to that RAID.  I currently dual-boot
>> on my gaming rig (for gaming obviously) so I can do this in Windows or
>> Linux.  Since I have to rip about 400 movies, and several TV sets, it
>> would be nice if I can make this fairly simple.  I don't want to have
>> to change codec settings with each disc, ripping each disc repeatedly
>> to try and get a decent rip.
>>
>> I'd like the rips to be smaller than the 4.7 GB your average DVD is
>> sitting at, barely crossing the single/dual layer line.  However, at
>> the same time I want the quality to be pretty decent, so I don't
>> regret getting rid of the physical discs.  With a decent sized TV
>> (56") flaws are more apparent.  Obviously, quality is somewhat a
>> matter of taste, but I'm looking for recommendations on what programs
>> to use, which codecs to use, and which settings.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- T. J. Brumfield
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