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I am asking exactly this question for the same reason, but would like to archive dvds as small, low quality video, while preserving the menu choosing experience.

I would like to rip my dvds to something that has the same menus but whose video is in a much more compressed format. I do not want to copy a dvd to an .iso image.

How can this be done in the most automatic (hopefully CLI) way possible? Any format is fine so long as playback on linux is possible.

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John Baber-Lucero
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  • Do you need the menus, or just chapters, choice of sub-titles (more than one, on/off), and sound channels (5.1, etc.)? There should be a method of menu capture (to text based file), based on either image (snapshots) or full video (short video clips), that is open-source. *Is there one out there?* (If so, what tools support it? – david6 Jun 29 '12 at 11:35
  • I'd prefer the menus (and think they'd probably be easier) but if someone can manage to infer menu entries by OCRing the menu screens, I'm sure that's worth the bounty! – John Baber-Lucero Jul 01 '12 at 12:27
  • I currently use DeVeDe, but the menus and chapter selection is re-created (in other words, the original menu is lost). Maybe this is a temporary solution... :P – Paulo Coghi Jul 04 '12 at 20:02
  • k9copy is definitely the way to go. Make a much smaller ISO of your DVD. Then to watch later, just mount the ISO and point your favorite DVD player at it. – John Baber-Lucero Sep 21 '12 at 12:20

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Try Dvdrip.

Dvdrip is a full-featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use, but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife transcode and many other Open Source tools. dvd::rip itself is licensed under GPL / Perl Artistic License.1

To Install Dvdrip, do that from the USC

1Source: Ubuntu Documentations

Another program is HandBrake. I don't think it can do menus, but take a look at it, you might use it for other projects.

I just stumbled upon AcidRip DVD Ripper. You can install it from USC. From reading about it, I think it can do menus, but I'm not sure. I* will test it once I'm done with the project I'm working on.

Take a look at this:

k9copy provides the following features:

  • The video stream can be compressed to make the video fit on any configurable target size
  • DVD Burning
  • Transcode DVD using mencoder or ffmpeg with configurable presets
  • Creation of ISO images
  • The possibility of choosing which audio and subtitle tracks to copy
  • Title preview (video only)
  • The ability to preserve the original menus 1

1Source:Ubuntu Apps Directory

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For followers, if you just want to rip the menu you can do so on the command line, basically copy /media/username/diskname/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB to wherever you want. Won't have menu capability but will have the backing video. Or re-encode it.

You can also rip the rest and re-encode it to be smaller: https://superuser.com/questions/749416/rip-cd-dvd-with-ffmpeg

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