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johanr

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Dvd Ripping:Get rid of commersials etc
« on: October 13, 2008, 11:49:36 pm »
Hi!

I am not very used to the ripping culture and I have done some searches but can't really get the answers I am looking for. So since there must be at least a bunch of you guys here that Rip's your own dvd:s maybe you can anwer these short but yet so (for me) important questions.

Is there a way of ripping a dvd in LMCE and choose not to gather the commersials etc.?
 Or is there such a ripping program/app that creates files that LMCE (Xine?) can handle?

Reason for asking is that when I (my son) would like to watch a movie I(my son) dont like spending 1-3 more or less waiting for the movie to start.

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Johan
asking alot of questions because I want to learn  :)

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Re: Dvd Ripping:Get rid of commersials etc
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2008, 01:19:01 am »
Johan - I presume you mean you want to "deconstruct" a DVD to get rid of the menus, intro, warnings, etc and just leave the main movie?

This can be done by reauthoring a DVD, but not directly in LMCE. However, ripping directly in LMCE is highly desireable for identification of the disk, and setting of the media library attributes and coverart.

Basically LMCE rips the DVD to a standard ISO file (but calls it .dvd) - I imagine you could do the rip in LMCE and target a share on a remote PC somewhere, which would get you your image and attributes/coverart. Then go to the other PC, rename it to .iso and use a DVD reauthoring program to strip out what you don't want, or even select the "main movie" component and pull it out to an .avi (or similar) file. Then the resulting .iso or .avi(etc) you would rename back to the .dvd file and this would then realign with the database attributes and coverart entries.

If you pull out an .avi(etc) file from the "main movie" component, don't forget to delete the old .iso file and perhaps even clear it out of the LMCE database (it will appear as an item missing from disk - there's a check box to display these).

Also, pulling out to an .avi file gives the advantage that you can also transcode to a more efficient codec which will dramatically save storage space (DVD's use MPEG2 which is very inefficient by today's standards!)


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Re: Dvd Ripping:Get rid of commersials etc
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2008, 10:08:50 pm »
Ok, Big Thanks!
Have alot of research to do now.
Guess when my setup is the way I want, the lmce 10.0 will be out  ;D
(damn you're working hard guys)

-johan