Sony Handycam

Handycam DCR-DVD105E

This records directly on 8cm DVD-R, DVD-RW or DVD+RW.
So to get the movies under linux, just rip the DVD!

Ripping programs

• drip - GNOME application for encoding a DivX from a DVD
• dvdbackup - tool to rip DVD's from the command line
• ripmake - an automatic command line ripping makefile generator for transcode
• acidrip - ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder
• lxdvdrip - tool to make a copy from a Video DVD
• k9copy - copy DVD like dvdshrink

Edition programs

• gopchop - Fast, lossless cuts-only editor for MPEG2 video files
• gaupol - subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files
• dvd-slideshow - tools to create dvd slideshow with menus
• dvdrip - perl front end for transcode
• dvdwizard - fully automated creation of a DVD-structure
• dvd+rw-tools - DVD+-RW/R tools
• dvdauthor - create DVD-Video file system
  • qdvdauthor - GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools
• dvdstyler - a crossplatform DVD Authoring System
• submux-dvd - subtitle multiplexer, muxes subtitles into .vob

Mplayer conversions

To play DVD-RW Video 16:9 correctly and non-interlaced: (here the 4th video)

mplayer dvd://2 -chapter 2 -vf tfields -aspect 16:9

To dump raw:

mplayer dvd://2 -dumpstream -dumpfile video.raw

To convert to MS Mpeg4v2 800 / mp3 128 (2 passes)

mencoder video.raw -o /dev/null -vf scale=720:405  -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vpass=1
mencoder video.raw -o video.avi -vf scale=720:405  -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3:abitrate=128:vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vpass=2:vbitrate=800

Other tests:

-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vbitrate=1800
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate="1200":vhq:vpass=1
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate="1200":vhq:vpass=2
-ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1
-ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1200