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

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:33:23AM +0000, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, John-Thomas Richards
> <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:25:56AM +0000, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> Handbrake works very well for ripping and encoding disks. When I
> >> backed up my 100 or so disc DVD collection, I believe I used
> >> 'dvdbackup'. (dvdbackup doesn't include an encoding option, though)
> >
> > I'm actually less concerned about converting to another format.  vlc can
> > play a VOB just fine (and I don't want any loss of quality).  The
> > problem is watching a specific episode is difficult because a VOB
> > doesn't match up with an episode.  If I had sufficient disk space I
> > would simply use dvdbackup and keep all the extra features though I
> > would really prefer having an individual file for each episode
> > (something like `Stargate_SG1_S01E01_Children_of_the_Gods.mpg').
> 
> 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.

Would something like MythTV be able to traverse all the directories so
that such copied DVDs are available via menu?
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