Tag: dvd

A very good mencoder command-line to rip a DVD in very good quality.

This long one-liner will rip a DVD in very good quality to an AVI file. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mencoder -passlogfile 2passlog.log -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1400:me_quality=6:chroma_me=1:nointerlacing:max_bframes=1:noqpel:hq_ac:trellis:quant_type=mpeg:chroma_opt:bvhq=1:vhq=4:autoaspect:pass=1:turbo -aid 128 -ofps 23.976 dvd:// -o evil_dead_movie.avi┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mencoder -passlogfile 2passlog.log -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts…

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How to get DVD playback working on Ubuntu. This is very easy.

To get DVD playback working on Ubuntu, the libdvdcss library is required. This is easily installed and necessary to decode a DVD properly for playback. Install this package to prepare for installation. This also allows automated updates to the library. 4.4 Sat Feb 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ sudo apt install…

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How to play a DVD on Fedora 25 with libdvdcss.

How to enable encrypted DVD playback on Fedora 25 Playing a DVD on Fedora 25 is not too difficult. I already had the extra repositories added to enable multimedia playback support, but I could not play a DVD. So I downloaded the libdvdcss library. http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.0/. Then I built and installed…

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Rip a DVD easily on Ubuntu with the dvdrip application.

The dvdrip application is an easy way to rip a DVD to your hard disk drive. To install this application, run this command. ~$ sudo apt-get install dvdrip Then run the dvdrip application. Now read a DVD disk and setup the various options to transcode the DVD to your hard…

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Rip a DVD on Linux Mint 17 with ogmrip.

Ripping a DVD with ogmrip allows you to save a copy of a DVD on your computer, these can be watched with mpv and provide easier access to all of your movies without changing DVD discs all of the time. The disc can be put away for safekeeping and the…

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Play a DVD with Smplayer on Ubuntu 16.04.

To play a DVD on Ubuntu 16.04, you will need to install the Libdvdcss library to enable encrypted DVD playback. This is very simple. Firstly, download the required library: https://download.videolan.org/libdvdcss/1.2.12/libdvdcss-1.2.12.tar.bz2. Then move to the Downloads directory and extract the tarball. jason@jason-desktop:~$ tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.2.12.tar.bz2jason@jason-desktop:~$ tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.2.12.tar.bz2 Then move to…

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How to install libdvdcss on Fedora 20 to enable DVD playback.

The libdvdcss library is used to playback encrypted DVD disks on a Linux operating system. Download the tarball here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/libdvdcss.html. Then we need to unpack the tarball. [homer@localhost libdvdcss-1.2.13]$ tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.2.13.tar.bz2[homer@localhost libdvdcss-1.2.13]$ tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.2.13.tar.bz2 Then enter the directory. [homer@localhost libdvdcss-1.2.13]$ cd libdvdcss-1.2.13/[homer@localhost libdvdcss-1.2.13]$ cd libdvdcss-1.2.13/ Then begin the…

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