Guy Fraser wrote:
On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 11:07 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
>Strong wrote:
>
>>I wrote recently, but did get any respond, trying to rewrite another
>>way...
>>I have a DVD movie, that needs to be edited: video and sound.
>>Thus the question is: what software i should use to unpack from its
>>format to the format that will be operable for the video audio
>>processing as the next step?
>>Finally, i want to compile it in DVD format again. So, it will be nice
>>to loose its quality minimally. Big thanks, for Your solutions!
>
>Funny, it has been discussed a couple of times since your original post
>but in different threads.
>
>This was from a thread on copying a DVD.
>Here is a script I use for shrinking DVDs. Needs some work but you
>should get the idea. You will need to d'load vobcopy, tcextract etc.
>
>Using the tools mentioned and Audacity and avidemux2 or similar
>programs, you should be in business.
>
>I have installed yumextender and this allows me to search through the
>various packages that are on the reposotiries that I use. It makes it
>easier to browse the various and numerious packages that are available.
>
>Basically, you have to convert the DVD vob files to a format that you
>can edit.
>
>#! /bin/bash
>cd /video
>pwd
>echo "Ripping DVD"
>vobcopy -l /dev/hda -t movie
>echo "Extracting Video"
>tcextract -i movie*-1.vob -t vob -x mpeg2 > movie.m2v
>echo "Extracting Audio"
>tcextract -i movie*-1.vob -t vob -x ac3 -a 0 > movie.ac3
>echo "Calculating Shrink Ratio"
>rm movie*-1.vob
>echo "Calculating Shrink Ratio"
>M1=$(ls -l movie.m2v | awk '{ print $5 }')
>M2=$(ls -l movie.ac3 | awk '{ print $5 }')
>M3=$(echo 4600000000 - $M2 | bc)
>M4=$(echo "scale = 2; $M1 / $M3 * 1.04" | bc)
>echo "Movie size =" $M1
>echo "Sound size =" $M2
>echo "Blank - Sound size =" $M3
>echo "Scale Factor =" $M4
>echo "Shrinking For DVD-5"
>tcrequant -i movie.m2v -o shrink.m2v -f $M4
>echo "Deleting Video File"
>rm movie.m2v
>echo "Re-combining Video and Audio"
>mplex -f 8 -o movie%d.mpg shrink.m2v movie.ac3
>echo "Deleting Video File"
>rm shrink.m2v
>echo "Deleting Audio File"
>rm movie.ac3
>echo "Authoring DVD..."
>dvdauthor -o output -x dvd.xml
Cool!
Where did you get the dvd.xml or what do you use to generate it ?
I got the script from another thread, "DVD Writing". I have bcc'd the
OP of the script and hopefully they can respond if they don't see the
thread.
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Robin Laing