(re)compressing DVD video ? [closed]

suredeath · Last edited by suredeath on Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:38 am; edited 1 time in total

While ripping and re-compressing DVD's was a walk in the park with *cough* windows *cough* and DVD-encrypter (maybe some of you know it), I can't seem to find any fairly easy-to-use Linux counterpart. Maybe I am just looking for the wrong keywords or in the wrong places. I am especially interested in the compression bit, ripping isn't much of an issue right now. Any good pointers/tips on what software to look for ? For instance I have a few 4.4Gb isos that just won't fit on a single DVD (any ideas where this 4.4Gb format comes from?, Never seen any DVDs that size) I'd like to further shrink to fit a regular DVD-R

BTW I don't necessarily mean I only want GUI apps, a CLI-program with good documentation will do just fine as well.
TIA

frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

mencoder, transcode (both commandline that can do pretty much anything)
dvdrip (transcode frontend for dvd->avi,ogm,whatever compression/conversion)

suredeath · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

Ah great, I must have missed the bits on DVD recoding for mencoder. Thanks, back to the man pages.
(edit) I don't see any support for re/encoding to .VOB file format in mencoder docs. I'll look at the other ones...

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject:

suredeath,

dvdrip is a pretty front end to the CLI tools.
dvdshrink now has a Linux port, its CLI only
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suredeath · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot. I'll look into these asap! Diskspace urgently needed

yngwin · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

I myself prefer Avidemux for video encoding / DVD backup.
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suredeath · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: Shrinking VOBS back to VOBs

I just found this site: http://prettymad.net/scripts/vobshrink with a script that does all the work resizing existing DVD VOB file layouts.
Sofar it's the only thing I found that fits my needs, all the other suggested programs seem to have no particular features to shrink DVD video whilst keeping the VOB file layout. The only one I did not test was dvdshrink, it's a masked package and I decided not to go for it yet. I'll post the results here.
Thanks for your help sofar all!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject:

suredeath,

The Windows version of dvdshrink runs under WINE, if you perfer the GUI
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suredeath · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:38 am Post subject:

I found k9copy (there's an ebuild in Portage) which quite easily transcodes DVD-9 to DVD-5 or whatever size you like. Its GUI has an easy selector for subtitles, audiotracks, menus and disksize. Also I found some scripts that aim at automating several steps of the ripping, transcoding and burning process.
Thanks for all the input. I'm closing this topic.
@frostschutz: Sorry, I meant 4.4 GiB, just a tad too big. In the mean time I also found a few 4.6 GiB iso's. And yes I tried. Another issueu turned out to be a scratch on one of my DVD-RWs, which did not lead to unusability, but less space instead. Apparantly cdrecord is able to deal with damaged media. Or some miracle just happened to me;-)