Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 16:49:01 +0000 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Andrew Sparrow <spadger@spadger.best.vwh.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ripping cd's Message-ID: <427659FD.2050306@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20050501214952.B49531@spadger.best.vwh.net> References: <4275A2C3.1000304@chuckr.org> <20050501214952.B49531@spadger.best.vwh.net>
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Andrew Sparrow wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:47:15AM +0000, Chuck Robey wrote: Y'know, I'm getting really a bit tired of this, I know folks are probably doing it for the kindest reasons, but isn't it clear by now that I'm trying to learn more about cd's and dvd's, and I DO NOT want to buy your particular brand of set top? Please, NO MORE recommendations of your model, I will not appreciate it. That being said, I know that the responses were all done in good faith. I have absolutely no wish to provide every person i nthe world with a new dvd, I just want to learn how to make what I produce totally compatible. Neither am I really interested in doing illgal things, though I will admit my idea of illegal isn't what the Hollywood idiots would have you believe. > >>I am rather amazed that the video work on my amd64 box is going to >>remarkably well. The sound works digitally across 5.1 channels, and >>what's more, it looks like all of k3b's functions (at least to the point >>I understand them) are all working. All completely without any reliance >>whatsoever upon x86 compatibility. It's all done with native-built >>ports, no packages. >> >>Anyhow, I have acidrip working well, and I've ripped a dvd. This is >>that dvd from a few weeks ago, its' got region==2, and it's in PAL, so I >>want to set it up in some format that plays in my friend's old dvd >>player, so he can finally, at long last *see* the dvd he paid for. > > > Uh, Y'know, the Cyberhome CH-300 s a tiny little DVD settop. It has > has a secret squirrel menu to set it multi-region, does some of the > best NTSC/PAL conversion I've seen - ever - on-the-fly, and plays > all kinds of non-standard formats[0] without blinking an eye. > > It has progressive scan, SPDIF output and extra stuff I could care > less about - but it Just Works. > > They run $30-$50 at Rat Shack, depending they're on offer at the > moment (they often are). They had a bad rap for reliablity at first > - but I've been hammering mine for a year, and nary a glitch.. > > Mine groks dvdatuthor'd DVDs and VCD/SVCD/XVCD/KVCD etc. generated > by vcdimager just fine (and then burnt with cdrecord-ProDVD/growisfs/cdrdao > etc). > > I mention the settop box because transcoding from PAL to NTSC is a > CPU pig, - and inevitably the requantization will lose qaulity. But > not as much as the transcoding will... And you cannot avoid the > transcoding if you're scaling from NTSC to PAL or vice versa. > > Going from DVD9 to DVD5 will also lose quality. Period. You may not > notice it, but you're reducing a ~8.5GB DVD to half that.. Unless > you're going to burn this on a $13 dollar DL blank(!), and I don't > even know how many DVD players will grok those yet. > > >>He could have watched it some weeks ago on my system, but he wants to >>see it at home. How unreasonable! Anyhow, after I ripped it with >>Acidrip, it came right up on an .avi format, all in the same format. > > > I sympathise. I have a bunch of Region 2 DVD9 DVD's. I leave them > alone and I play them in my $40 settop DVD player. They play great. > > >>So, question, anyone know what sort of format plays from a cd to a dvd >>player (I am happily willing to lose the menus) > > > My personal favorite is tovid: http://tovid.sourceforge.net/ > > It's got a few Linux-ism's - but not that many[1], and it seems to > do overall, the most reliable, best quality, most efficient, job > of all the myriad of conversion scripts I've seen to date. It'll > read a DVD directly and re-quant it, IIRC (I don't ever do that). > > The dvdrip (dvd::rip) port will turn your DVD into a VCD or an AVI > etc. I believe it may also convert the menus and extras etc. for > you too. > > There's also ldvd9to5 in the ports collection, which may or may not > do precisely what you want (I believe it should do, but unfortunately, > the menu options are all German, which I can't read). And I've never > had the patience to run it long enough to see. > > There's a 'Doze freeware program called DVDShrink, which actually > does an awesome job of shrinking a DVD9 to a DVD5. Much better than > any *nix-based software, I'm sorry to say. It's default setting is > to remove region codes. > > It apparently runs fine under Wine on Linux, although I haven't > tested it myself as my laptop is stuck in 4.x land (where Wine > doesn't work anymore and my licensed copy of VMware hates me), and > I only just got a desktop. > > Hope this helps. Feel free to ask questions off-list if you want. > There's some very neat tools already in the ports collection. > > Cheers, > > Andy > > [0] for example, NTSC DVD's with MP2 audio - like you tend to get > with extracted TyStreams - are not strictly standards-compliant. > > [1] Mostly things like the location of bash, Linux flags to df, > using /proc/cpuinfo etc. A port is almost not worth submitting, athough > I guess I could clean up what I have sometime, anyway..
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