[GRLUG] Ben's video editing pdf & a question

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:42:52AM +0000, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:38 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
[snip]
> >> The output of dvdbackup is a folder which is equivalent to a mounted
> >> DVD filesystem. You can treat that as an ISO with mplayer and VLC;
> >> that's how I watched my ripped discs.
> >
> > mplayer and vlc are great apps.  However, each folder will hold only a
> > few episodes, thus requiring lots of movement in and out of folders to
> > find the episode you want.  By having one file per episode each season's
> > episodes can be in one folder.
> 
> I think you misunderstand me. The output of dvdbackup is a VIDEO_TS
> folder somewhere on your disk (wherever you told it to put it)
> 
> You can open that *folder* as you would an ISO image. I.e. "mplayer
> /path/to/some/folder/containing/the/VIDEO_TS/folder/"

I did misunderstand that you meant the whole folder.  Thanks for the
clarification.

I just dvdbackup'd a disc and checked the contents more closely.  The
VOB files *are* separated by episode, though each episode spans more
than one VOB.  For example, here's a bit of the directory listing.

 1.2M Mar  9 19:52 VTS_06_0.VOB
 1.0G Mar  9 19:58 VTS_06_1.VOB this
 632M Mar  9 20:01 VTS_06_2.VOB      and this are one episode
  42K Mar  9 20:01 VTS_07_0.BUP
  42K Mar  9 20:01 VTS_07_0.IFO
 1.2M Mar  9 20:01 VTS_07_0.VOB this
 1.0G Mar  9 20:05 VTS_07_1.VOB      and this are another
 632M Mar  9 20:07 VTS_07_2.VOB
  34K Mar  9 20:07 VTS_08_0.BUP
  34K Mar  9 20:07 VTS_08_0.IFO
1014M Mar  9 20:10 VTS_08_1.VOB but this one is not;
  42K Mar  9 20:10 VTS_09_0.BUP       it's a special feature
  42K Mar  9 20:10 VTS_09_0.IFO

I cat'ed VTS_06_1.VOB and VTS_06_2.VOB into new.vob.  vlc plays this
file *and* includes the various audio tracks, thus preserving the
commentary.  In addition, there is zero loss of video and/or audio
quality.  :-)

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