Development of new DVD9 to DVD5 script

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v_tieleman · Post by **v_tieleman** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:12 am

After the setback of discovering limited capabilities of the current DVD9 to DVD5 scripts, I decided it was time to develop my own. I was wondering if anyone else is interested in such a script? I've currently got the following features working (which I believe DVD9to5 does not have):

- Quality shrinking of DVD instead of fast shrinking, prevents that 'blocky' appearance of your DVD

- Automated extraction of subtitles in requested language, with ability to specify language preference
- Automated extraction of audio track based, with ability to specify preference on type (dolby digital, dts, prologic)
- Optional conversion from PAL to NTSC (ofcourse only when necessary, also working on inverse)

I thought maybe I can start a new project on source forge so everyone can contribute? I noticed dvd9to5 does not have such a project, otherwise I would have contributed to it.

Vincent

bkunlimited · Post by **bkunlimited** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:22 am

are you only going to shrink the main title or will there be an option to chose shrinking the whole dvd? and maybe shrinking the extra parts with higher compression than the main title?

v_tieleman · Post by **v_tieleman** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:42 am

currently only the main title is supported, but eventually I want to be able to shrink the entire DVD.
good idea to shrink the extra's with higher compression... I'll add it to my todo list

Locarius · Post by **Locarius** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:07 pm

As a long term goal, you may want to try to duplicate the functionality of DVDShrink (ok, in script form). That would make my year.

wim · Post by **wim** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:21 pm

making my year would be an understatement

luisfelipe · Post by **luisfelipe** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:56 pm

Setup a page on sourceforge for it. Would be really nice to have something like that.

An option of getting all of the subtitles instead of only a few would be easier (subtitles
don't use much space, do they ??).

lizardcry · Post by **lizardcry** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:48 am

take a look at http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/

tps · Post by **tps** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:35 pm

Another idea for a new version of dvd9to5 - prompt user for inserting blank dvd.

Thanks

Tps

v_tieleman · Post by **v_tieleman** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:38 am

A preliminary version of the script can be downloaded at:

http://imaging.kicks-ass.org/dvd.sh

I'm sorry, but there is no documentation yet. The script can be controlled by altering the variables at the top of the script.

It requires (at least):
- transcode
- dvdbackup
- lsdvd
- mplex
- spumux
- dvdauthor

It features:
- Conversion from PAL to NTSC (and vice versa, but that is untested)
- Fast vs quality copy. (fast=1 or fast=0). My experience is fast is usually satisfactory, unless the dvd to copy is low quality in which artefacts occur.
- Subtitle copy. Preferred language specified in subtitle_language. Format is two letter country codes seperated by a space, with preferred language first.
- Audio copy. Preferred language in audio_language, same format as subtitle.
- Audio type preference. Specified in audio_types as ac3 (dolby digital), dts or pcm. Seperated by spaces and ordered by preferred first. Note that DTS usually requires large amounts of space, reducing the video quality. Therefore I use ac3 as default.
- Video is only compressed when necessary.

- If the stuff does not fit entirely on the dvd, all other extra's are dropped (menu etc). Still have to look at menu compression and such.

And probably some other things I can't think of now...

Note that the script is still under development, so testing it with a rewritable is probably a good idea (tip: specify copies=2 to first write the rewritable, test it, then write the final dvd as a second copy).

Any improvements to or suggestions for the script are welcome.
I sent an e-mail to the author of xdvdshrink, with the suggestion to work together and combine scripts.

V. Tieleman

v_tieleman · Post by **v_tieleman** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:41 pm

Just added a primitive form of command line argument parsing. Run the script as "./dvd.sh -h" and you will get the options.

trey85stang · Post by **trey85stang** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:59 am

i think lxdvdrip does everything you are wanting... I've never heard the term DVD9 or DVD5 though.. im assuming you mean a 9gb dvd to a 4.7gb dvd. :G

http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.ph ... e=lxdvdrip

lxdvdrip is masked in portage though and I have not tried it since switching to gentoo.. but used it exclusivly on slackware.