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

I'm not sure the subtitles are properly taken into account

With decent menu

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

You can also try qdvdauthor but with more power comes more stuff to learn ;-)

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

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

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