Extract DVD

Decryption

For decrypting encrypted DVDs build and install libdvdcss from http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/last

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Space not an Issue?

If hdd space is not an issue then grab the whole DVD

Installation

Install the following software

apt-get install  lsdvd gddrescue vobcopy genisoimage

Extract

Run once to get the css key

lsdvd

Read the DVD to a rescue image ignoring bad blocks abd mount the image

ddrescue -n -b 2048 /dev/<dvddevice> <title>_ddrescue.iso
mkdir <title>.mnt
mount <title>_ddrescue.iso <title>.mnt

Extract and unencrypt the video files.

vobcopy <title>.mnt -m -t <title>

Then create an iso image from it

genisoimage -dvd-video -o <title>.iso <title>

Make smaller files

This describes how to convert a DVD to OGG video using:

• libtheora for video
• libvorbis for audio
• srt subtitles

Installation

Install the packages

apt-get install libav-tools lsdvd mplayer oggz-tools dvdauthor

Prepare

Use lsdvd to see what's on DVD. Determine the stream you would like to extract as well as the aid for audio and the sid for subtitles.

lsdvd -x /dev/sr0

Export the palette to a file. You will later need this when extracting subtitles.

lsdvd -t <stream> -P /dev/sr0 | grep Palette | cut -d: -f 2 | tr ' ' '\n' | tail -n +2 > <title>.palette

Write the stream to the harddrive so the next steps will go faster.

mplayer dvdnav://<stream> -dumpstream -dumpfile <title>.vob

Investigate the VOB file and note the numbers for the videostream and the audiostream

avprobe <title>.vob

Some VOB files report the wrong duration so just in case rebuild the vob file but only with the required videostream and audiostream.

avconv -y -i <title>.vob -map 0:<videostream> -c:v copy -an -sn -f vob <title>_video.vob
avconv -y -i <title>.vob -map 0:<audiostream> -c:a copy -vn -sn -f ac3 <title>_audio.ac3

Audio

Calculate the target bitrate

bitrate=`avprobe -show_format <title>_audio.ac3 2>/dev/null | grep bit_rate | cut -d= -f 2`; samplerate=`avprobe -show_streams <title>_audio.ac3 2>/dev/null | grep sample_rate | cut -d= -f 2` ; echo "scale=10;${bitrate}/(${samplerate}/44100)/2/1000" | bc | cut -d. -f 1

Now extract audio from the stream and convert to OGG.

avconv -y -i <title>_audio.ac3 -c:a libvorbis -b:a <bitrate>k -ar 44100 -vn -sn -f ogg <title>.audio

Video

Detect the amount to crop.

avconv -y -i <title>_video.vob -t 600 -vf cropdetect -an -sn -f rawvideo /dev/null 2>&1 | tail | head -n 1 | sed 's/^.*crop=//'

Calculate the target bitrate

filesize=`find ./ -name <title>_video.vob -printf '%s\n'`; duration=`avprobe -show_streams <title>_video.vob 2>/dev/null | grep duration | cut -d= -f 2 | sed 's/:/\//'`; sar=`avprobe -show_streams <title>_video.vob 2>/dev/null | grep sample_aspect_ratio | cut -d= -f 2 | sed 's/:/\//'`; framerate=`avprobe -show_streams <title>_video.vob 2>/dev/null | grep r_frame_rate | cut -d= -f 2 | sed 's/:/\//'`;echo "scale=10;((${filesize}/3)*8/${duration}/(${sar}))*(25/${framerate})/1000" | bc | cut -d. -f 1

Convert the video stream to ogv in 2 passes

avconv -y -pass 1 -i <title>_video.vob -r 25 -g 100 -bf 16 -filter:v yadif,crop=<cropvalues>,scale=in_w:in_h/sar -b:v <bitrate>k -c:v libtheora -an -sn -f ogg <title>.video
avconv -y -pass 2 -i <title>_video.vob -r 25 -g 100 -bf 16 -filter:v yadif,crop=<cropvalues>,scale=in_w:in_h/sar -b:v <bitrate>k -c:v libtheora -an -sn -f ogg <title>.video

Subtitles

Force a RGB palette file with the name <title>.rgb and the following contents

f00000
ff0000
fff000
ffff00

Extract the subtitles from the stream.

spuunmux

Merging

Combine everything in a ogg container

oggz-merge -o <title>.ogv <title>.video <title>.audio