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!
Tests with a finalized DVD-RW
Ripping
dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -I dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o . [-n title]
Re-multiplexing
# For each VTS_0${i}_1.VOB
tcextract -i VTS_0${i}_1.VOB -t vob -x mpeg2 > movie.m2v
tcextract -i VTS_0${i}_1.VOB -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 > movie.ac3
spuunmux VTS_0${i}_1.VOB
mplex -f 8 -o "movie${i}-%d.mpg" movie.m2v movie.ac3
spumux -m dvd sub.xml < movie${i}-1.mpg > movie${i}sub.mpg
rm -f sub* movie${i}-1.mpg
Now the movie${i}sub.mpg are ready for authoring
Tests with a VR-mode DVD-RW
Ripping (actually mounting)
Those special VR-mode DVD are formatted in UDF
For some info on UDF under Linux, cf http://www.lea-linux.org/cached/index/Hardware-hard_plus-packet-writing.html
apt-get install udftools zless /usr/share/doc/udftools/README.Debian.gz
Edit /etc/default/udftools
DEVICES="/dev/scd0"
Normally at next reboot the module will be loaded and /dev/pktcdvd/0 created, otherwise:
modprobe pktcdvd
Now we can mount the DVD, "ro" as we don't plan to change it
The content appears to be /cdrom/DVD_RTAV/
Note that if you want to play with UDF, you can:
Format a CD:
cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrom -q
Mount it rw:
mount /dev/pktcdvd/0 /mnt/udf -o noatime,sync
And don't forget to umount it! Especially when writing to it!!
Re-multiplexing
cf http://www.avtechpulse.com/opensource/dvd.html
You need to install some tools
apt-get install mjpegtools
mplayer -dumpvideo /cdrom/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO mv stream.dump video mplayer -dumpaudio /cdrom/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO mv stream.dump audio spuunmux /cdrom/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO mplex -f 8 audio video -o movie%d.mpg spumux -m dvd sub.xml < movie1.mpg > movie1sub.mpg rm -f sub* movie1.mpg
Now the movie1sub.mpg is ready for authoring
Authoring
Very basic authoring
mkdir dvd dvdauthor -o ./dvd movie*sub.mpg dvdauthor -o ./dvd -T
This is ok only for mpg without subtitles (so not processed by spumux)
More complex menu can be created, cf e.g. this page
Or use dvdwizard for a quite good startup without much effort:
# apt-get install dvdwizard $ mkdir ~/.dvdwizard $ gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/dvdwizard/examples/dvdwizard.conf.sample.gz > ~/.dvdwizard/dvdwizard.conf
dvdwizard -T "<DVD title>" -M fr -t "Part 1" -A fr -s hh -WS nopanscan <mpg files>
-t "Part 2" -A fr -s hh -WS nopanscan <mpg files>...
-M fr: for main menu in french (you can change the messages in the conf file)
-A fr: to tag the audio track as french
-s hh: for the timestamps subtitles, I added the following to dvdwizard.conf:
HH=Timestamps
-b picture: you can force the background picture to sth else than the default sample
By default a chapter is created for every 5 mins chunk
You can also try qdvdauthor but with more power comes more stuff to learn ;-)
Testing
Before burning we can try with xine on a directory structure (with AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS etc):
xine dvd:$(pwd)/dvd
Or on an iso
xine dvd:$(pwd)/dvd.iso
Burning
mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso ./dvd growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso
Or simply
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video ./dvd
Apparently this should also be possible with
mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso ./dvd dvdrecord speed=1 -dao dev=0,0,0 dvd.iso
but dvdrecord supports only DVD-R(W) media.
See also CD & DVD Burning
Other tools
Ripping programs
- acidrip - ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder
- I get an error as lsdvd segfaults
- drip - GNOME application for encoding a DivX from a DVD
- Not updated since 04/2004
- dvdbackup - tool to rip DVD's from the command line
dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -I dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o . [-n title]
- dvdrip - perl front end for transcode
- I get an error as lsdvd segfaults
- k9copy - copy DVD like dvdshrink
- lxdvdrip - tool to make a copy from a Video DVD
- ripmake - an automatic command line ripping makefile generator for transcode
Re-multiplexing script
#!/bin/bash
n=1
if [ "$1" == "-n" ]; then
shift
n=$1
shift
fi
if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 inputs output"
exit 1
fi
output=${!#}
# check non-existing dir
if [ ! -d "$output" ]; then
echo "Error output dir $output does not exist"
exit 1
fi
# Check if output exists and contains a dvd struct
if [ -d "$output/VIDEO_TS" ]||[ -d "$output/DVD_RTAV" ]; then
echo "Warning! Are you sure you want to output in $output??"
echo "If yes, first clean the content of $output"
exit 1
fi
for i in $*; do
if [ "$i" != "$output" ]; then
if [ -d "$i/VIDEO_TS" ]; then
# Regular DVD
echo "Extracting $i"
for j in "$i"/VIDEO_TS/VTS_*_1.VOB; do
tcextract -i "$j" -t vob -x mpeg2 > "$output"/movie.m2v
tcextract -i "$j" -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 > "$output"/movie.ac3
spuunmux -o "$output"/sub$n- "$j"
mplex -f 8 -o "$output"/"movie$n-%d.mpg" "$output"/movie.m2v "$output"/movie.ac3
rm -f "$output"/movie.m2v "$output"/movie.ac3
spumux -m dvd "$output"/sub$n-.xml < "$output"/movie${n}-1.mpg > "$output"/movie${n}sub.mpg
rm -f "$output"/movie${n}-1.mpg "$output"/sub$n-*
n=$((n+1))
done
else if [ -d "$i/DVD_RTAV" ]; then
# VR-mode DVD
echo "Extracting $i"
mplayer -dumpfile "$output"/movie.m2v -dumpvideo "$i"/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO
mplayer -dumpfile "$output"/movie.ac3 -dumpaudio "$i"/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO
spuunmux -o "$output"/sub$n- "$i"/DVD_RTAV/VR_MOVIE.VRO
mplex -f 8 -o "$output"/"movie$n-%d.mpg" "$output"/movie.m2v "$output"/movie.ac3
rm -f "$output"/movie.m2v "$output"/movie.ac3
spumux -m dvd "$output"/sub$n-.xml < "$output"/movie${n}-1.mpg > "$output"/movie${n}sub.mpg
rm -f "$output"/movie${n}-1.mpg "$output"/sub$n-*
n=$((n+1))
else
echo "Error, no DVD structure in $i!"
fi
fi
fi
done
Edition programs
- devede - program to create video DVDs
- dvd+rw-tools - DVD+-RW/R tools
- dvd-slideshow - tools to create dvd slideshow with menus
- dvdauthor - create DVD-Video file system
- qdvdauthor - GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools
- dvdrtools - DVD writing program
- dvdwizard - fully automated creation of a DVD-structure
- dvdstyler - a crossplatform DVD Authoring System
- gaupol - subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files
- gopchop - Fast, lossless cuts-only editor for MPEG2 video files
- mandvd - Video DVD creator
- submux-dvd - subtitle multiplexer, muxes subtitles into .vob
Avidemux
QT interface seems buggy (e.g. the list of video filters)
So I'm using the GTK version:
apt-get install avidemux
Very easy, can open directly the ripped videos.
To create the 640x480 videos for the photoframe:
- From VOB rip 720x576 DVD interleaved 16:9
- MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid4)
- Two-pass Average Bitrate 800
- Filtres:
TDeint
Mplayer resize -> 804x480
Crop 82G 82D -> 640x480
- MP3 (LAME)
- Filtres:
Resampling 44100
- Filtres:
- MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid4)
- From VOB rip 720x576 DVD interleaved 4:3
- MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid4)
- Two-pass Average Bitrate 800
- Filtres:
TDeint
Mplayer resize -> 640x512
Crop 16H 16B -> 640x480
- MP3 (LAME)
- Filtres:
Resampling 44100
- Filtres:
- MPEG-4 ASP (Xvid4)
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
For a 4:3 video, rescale with
scale=720:540
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
Other codecs of lavc to try:
mpeg4 MPEG-4 (DivX 4/5) msmpeg4 DivX 3 msmpeg4v2 MS MPEG-4v2 Windows: ok DVD-player: no wmv2 Windows Media Video, version 2 (alias WMV8)
CD creation
Burning the avis on a CD:
genisoimage -R -J <dir> | wodim -v -eject -
I tried the codec "MS Mpeg4v2" on my DVD player but it does not recognize that codec