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Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)
Linux.com has a review of thoggen, a DVD ripping tool. "That said, I still recommend Thoggen. For one thing, I can't heap enough praise on the interface. Simplicity is the watchword, and Thoggen gets it just right, presenting the user with the appropriate choices and working out the necessary details itself. Transcoding video is complicated, but Thoggen manages to make it simple. A lot of other apps could learn a lot from its design decisions."
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Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 29, 2006 17:19 UTC (Wed) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] Interesting. Anything is better than the broken horror show that is dvd::rip.
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 29, 2006 18:11 UTC (Wed) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486) [Link] Indeed. I have to try this one...
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 29, 2006 18:33 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link] I just tried it (there's a package in Kubuntu) and it beautifully ripped the first five seconds of mydvd of The Court Jester and then it stopped the dvd player and ripped 60 frames per second of black nothingness. Some more investigation is indicated, since I do want to backup my small dvd collection -- those things are fragile!
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 29, 2006 21:02 UTC (Wed) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link] Also, try acidrip on Kubuntu.
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 29, 2006 19:58 UTC (Wed) by ehovland (subscriber, #2284) [Link] Anything is better than the broken horror show that is dvd::rip. This is the second time I have seen this sort of reaction to dvd::rip. That is really too bad. I happen to like dvd::rip, I find that it does exactly what I tell it to do and its limitations have more to do with transcode then with dvd::rip itself. Combine that with the fact that dvd::rip is still actively developed on, it is still the best game in town for dvd ripping. And since I have a strong perl background I even have a chance at understanding the code. It is almost time for a Grump Editor's guide to dvd rippers.
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 30, 2006 3:14 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link] Unfortunately the editor of this fine publication lives in a jurisdiction where the ripping of dvd's is a crime.....
Illegal? Posted Mar 30, 2006 5:23 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Not necessarily. And besides, linux.com belongs to OSTG and comes therefore from the same jurisdiction as LWN.net, isn't it so?
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 30, 2006 12:32 UTC (Thu) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563) [Link] Well - not if the editor were to test it on the DVD released with a history of Open Source (Starring Linus, RMS and others) which was not encumbered in any way, and thus should be legal to rip. Don't remember the name right now unfortunately :(
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 30, 2006 19:14 UTC (Thu) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486) [Link] You mean the one where Stallman sings? I have it...It is called Revolution OS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A9GLO/103-4492863-2... It is region free and without CSS encoding. Good stuff, except for Stallman singing ;-)
mencoder & avidemux2 Posted Mar 29, 2006 17:47 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link] Hmm, I can't seem to find any real thoggen packages for FC5... or an FC for that matter.
Anyway...
The method I use is to rip the DVD track with mencoder and then use avidemux2 (found in the DAG repo [FC3 package works fine on FC5]) to convert it to an .ogm. Works rather well.
mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=1500 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=192:cbr:vol=4 -o trackname.avi
Sometimes I have to add in aspect ratio related flags.
Then just load it into avidemux2... set the video type to xvid, two pass encoding calculating the desired size by figuring 1MB per minute... set the audio to 48 kbit ogg... apply video filter to rescale x to 320... and adjust FPS to 12... setting the file container type to .ogm. Sounds like a lot of work but avidemux2 is very GUI and has visual crop, crop detect... all of that stuff.
Using that method, I can reduce a video into something that streams nicely using 1/2 of a 256 Kbit DSL connection... and that comes in barely over 1MB minute. A two hour video converts into approx. 150MB which isn't bad. Yeah, I know the quaility isn't high-def but it is very good considering the space savings... and it is very friendly for remote video streaming even on the lowest DSL connection.
I'd like to try thoggen if I can find a package. I don't like to build stuff from source too often because it makes upgrading things a PITA.
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 29, 2006 21:35 UTC (Wed) by set (guest, #4788) [Link] Ill have to check this tool out. So far the best front end to all thevarious tools that will allow backup of a dvd video is lxdvdrip.
Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) Posted Mar 29, 2006 21:53 UTC (Wed) by set (guest, #4788) [Link] But I guess these tools have different goals. Sorry.
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