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tamikana

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Registered: 2010-04-06

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[Solved] How do you copy a DVD movie of 7GB in a 4.7GB DVD-R?

Hello I'm trying to copy a DVD video but the issue is that it is 7GB but the movie is still 2 hours. Do you guys know a good application either from the main reps or the AUR that would help me out?

Last edited by tamikana (2010-05-02 16:52:12)

skottish

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Re: [Solved] How do you copy a DVD movie of 7GB in a 4.7GB DVD-R?

Have you looked through the Audio/Video section of the wiki?

Skripka

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Registered: 2009-02-19

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Re: [Solved] How do you copy a DVD movie of 7GB in a 4.7GB DVD-R?

To address the issue in the header.  Get dual-layer DVD media.

tamikana

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Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] How do you copy a DVD movie of 7GB in a 4.7GB DVD-R?

Thanks skottish I've checked Audio/Video and found a script to rip

#!/bin/sh

# Dvd2Avi 0.2
# Only does one title at a time, but "avimerge" from Transcode
# can sort it from there.

# by yyz

echo -n "Enter the name of output file (without extension):"
read FILE

echo -n "Enter the title you wish to rip:"
read TITLE

echo -n "Select a quality level (h/n/l)[[n]]:"
read Q

if [[ -z $Q ]];then 
    # If no quality passed, default to normal
    Q=n
fi

if [[ $Q = h ]]; then 
# If h passed, use high quality
mencoder dvd://$TITLE -alang en -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=320:cbr -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq -vf scale -zoom -xy 800 -o $FILE.avi
exit $?
fi

if [[ $Q = n ]]; then 
# If n passed, use normal quality (recommended)
mencoder dvd://$TITLE -alang en -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=160:cbr -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq -vf scale -zoom -xy 640 -o $FILE.avi
exit $?
fi

if [[ $Q = l ]]; then 
# If l passed, use low quality. not really worth it, 
# hardly any smaller but much crappier
mencoder dvd://$TITLE -alang en -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:vbr -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq -vf scale -zoom -xy 320 -o $FILE.avi
exit $?
fi

I've selected normal quality with the title I want
Next I just need to find an application to burn avi to dvd
I had k3b but it wants mpeg
EDIT: long life to Devede after some googling

Last edited by tamikana (2010-05-02 16:51:56)