Lxdvdrip

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Please respect all copyrights when using this program. The copying of a video DVD is permitted only for private purposes. Removing copy protection is not allowed.

For details, see the German copyright protection law: http://transpatent.com/gesetze/urhg.html

What is lxdvdrip?

lxdvdrip is a command line tool to make a copy from a video DVD for private Use.

It automates the process of DVD ripping, authoring, previewing and burning.

Features:

- Automatic selection of the longest title
- Automatic calculation of the re-quant factor
- Automatic reading of the volume ID
- Automatic chapter separation from the original
- Ripping of the audio tracks in every language
- Selection of the DTS audio tracks as default
- Support for selection of two subpicture tracks
- Support for ripping and re-authoring
- Preview of VOB files with mplayer, xine, totem, kaffeine and vlc
- Burning with growisofs or cdrecord, create iso-file
- All program parameters can be stored in the config file as the program defaults
- All parameters can be overwritten from the command line
- Messages in English, French and German
- Support for ripping of subpicture tracks
- Copy main title w/o original menu
- Copy DVD smaller than a DVD-R 1:1 with menus, > 4.7 GB with vamps, without menus.
- Partial copy: copying of the selected titles from the DVD (dvdunauthor/vamps)
- High quality backup (1 DVD9 => 2 DVD5)
- Creating DVDs with menus for title, audio and chapter selection (dvdwizard)

Homepage and download: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip/

The program requires the following tools to be installed:

- dvdauthor: DVD structure (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdauthor)
- mplayer: preview of VOB files (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)
- growisofs or cdrecord: burning (http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/)
- vamps, transcode and/or mplayer: to rip (vamps included, http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode)
- dvdbackup: for 1:1 copy DVD < 4.7 GB (included)
- vamps: for 1:1 copy DVD > 4.7 GB (included)
- dvdwizard: for menu structure (http://dvdwizard.wershofen.net/)

Download links and a list of all supported parameters can be found in the README files from the project archives.

It is possible to rip, re-quant and re-author the DVD in one step with vamps (lxdvdrip -st=vamps) or parallel transcoding (lxdvdrip -st=trans_par).

The traditional way to rip in 4 steps (rip video and re-quant, rip audio, mplex, dvdauthor) is supported as well. Use the command line parameter "-st=mplayer" to use mplayer or "-st=transcode" to use transcode.

lxdvdrip makes it possible to use all of the programs without giving any command line parameters.