automatic DVD ripping script.... Try it!

acid_kewpie · 09-22-2002, 05:29 PM

hiiiiiiiiiiidy ho

I've been learning perl, and my first project is in a beta stage! hurrah! I've made a wrapping script for mencoder / mplayer which will automatically rip the main title from any dvd you want to stick in a dvd drive. auto bitrate, auto cropping blah blah blah. all you need is mplayer / mencoder, and libdvdread (for two utilities, ifo_dump and title_info).

If anyone tries it i'd love some feedback. I plan to abstract it to a backend package and then build a gtk frontend as well as a terminal version as it is.

http://thirtythreeandathird.net/acidrip/acidrip

ciao!

MasterC · 09-23-2002, 05:00 PM

Hey Chris, I downloaded the file: acidrip, and tried running it:
./acidrip
perl acidrip
Where ./acidrip gives me:
bash-2.05a$ ./acidrip
bash: ./acidrip: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied

And perl acidrip gives me:
bash-2.05a$ perl acidrip
acidrip - Reading general disc information...error running title_info! is it on your path?

Obviously I have no idea what I am doing, so an idea on how to get started would be cool.

Thanks!

acid_kewpie · 09-23-2002, 05:03 PM

well firstly, change the shebang line to point to your perl. and like i said, it needs libdvdread...

MasterC · 09-23-2002, 05:47 PM

Here ya go Chris, I perl in the location that you have specified in the "shebang" (at least it would appear so from the lines below) and I also have libdvdread installed...

Code:

bash-2.05a$ whereis perl
perl: /usr/bin/perl /usr/man/man1/perl.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/perl.1.gz
bash-2.05a$ whereis libdvdread
libdvdread: /usr/local/lib/libdvdread.so /usr/local/lib/libdvdread.la /usr/local/lib/libdvdread.a
bash-2.05a$ ./acidrip
bash: ./acidrip: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied
bash-2.05a$ perl acidrip
acidrip - Reading general disc information...error running title_info! is it on your path?
bash-2.05a$

So any other ideas?

neo77777 · 09-23-2002, 06:11 PM

acid, does it work with libdvdread supplied with mplayer, or it works with libdvdread found at any DVD related sites, but mplayer? Just curious, I haven't tried it yet, and what perl version it was interpreted with, I have 5.8.0, so I'll give you my feedback when I get home.
See you.

acid_kewpie · 09-24-2002, 03:42 AM

i'm using 5.6.1.

You do actaully need dvdread specifically, as it's that that contains the two handy utilities, mplayer have streamlined their own hack, which is reasonable enough. Actually it was Arpi, the MPlayer author, that told me about them. There's nothing else that that dvdread inparticular is used for, no css or anything, and it won't interfere with mplayer at all. you do need it from source, as they're not in any of the rpms.

MasterC, well looks like title_info is not in your path! my handy error messages!

It might be, that's the only error message it knows from there, but something involving title_info didn't work, if it runs from a command line, i'm in trouble.. otherwise, it'll be a path issue.

acid_kewpie · 10-02-2002, 06:39 AM

Right, i've been away (whilst still being here of course) and have rewritten my script, to turn in into a fully automated GTK application, which is *nearly* ready for a beta version, huge thanks to TheLinuxDuck among others for helping me learn Perl. I should be able to create an rpm for it in a few days, and i'd love anyone who feels like it to test it. And i utterly promise to fully answer any questions that might arise, however trivial i would normally think they were!!

I'll hopefully be getting a sourceforge project for it as well in the near future.

neo77777 · 10-02-2002, 07:29 AM

Acid, would it be helpful, or you've alredy scourched this one
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

acid_kewpie · 10-02-2002, 08:12 AM

yeah i've seen some of that. that one is based around transcode, which i've always considered to be pretty gruesome, from a users point of view at least. One benefit of that is that it doesn't need ANYTHING else except transcode (as it's a huuuuuge collection of tiny utilities that get piped together) whereas mine uses the dvdread library utiltites as well. i'll also need to create an rpm to include the dvdread utilities, as they're not included in the standard rpms for libdvdread, just the source.

neo77777 · 10-02-2002, 08:35 AM

Acid, sorry for givin' a promise to test drive your code and not doing it, I am now on a freshly installed slackware machine, so after I get everything in place I surely will test drive it. Thanks.

acid_kewpie · 10-02-2002, 04:08 PM

tra la la.. things coming along today....

http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip
http://acidrip.thirtythreeandathird.net

Goatdemon · 10-02-2002, 04:29 PM

i'd like to check it out, but it seems as though the only file oyu have for download is .pl. i dont know what to do with it... im waitin for a tar.gz file.

acid_kewpie · 10-02-2002, 04:30 PM

a pl is just a perl script file. just run it.

Goatdemon · 10-02-2002, 04:33 PM

ok, do you plan on making a tar file, id much rather have that than an rpm

acid_kewpie · 10-02-2002, 04:34 PM

of course, that file there is only a test from over a month ago. my website should be working now, with plenty of info on it...