libcddb is used to query for information about audio Compact Discs that has been loaded in media players and CD rippers. Compiling libcddb is not so hard with MinGW.
First, I installed MinGW. I compiled zlib and libiconv.
Then, I compiled libcdio. I downloaded the latest development source from its git web server.
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
I compiled libcddb like this:
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
ffmpeg is an important component of many open-source projects, such as MPlayer and VLC. I am compiling ffmpeg so that I can use it to transcode multimedia files. This guide shows how to use MinGW to compile ffmpeg either statically or dynamically. Installation of MinGW is explained in this post. The example commands below are meant to be entered into an MSYS window (not Command Prompt). I downloaded the FFmpeg source and unpacked it.
FFMpeg can be linked with external libraries to add features to FFmpeg. I am adding most features to FFMpeg by compiling additional libraries. Most of these libraries are also covered in my posts on compiling MPlayer and Mencoder.
unzip zlib127.zip
cd zlib-1.2.7/
make -f win32/Makefile.gcc
cp -iv zlib1.dll /mingw/bin
cp -iv zconf.h zlib.h /mingw/include
cp -iv libz.a /mingw/lib
cp -iv libz.dll.a /mingw/lib
Optionally, get bzip2 source from bzip.org and compile it like this:
tar xzvf bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
cd bzip2-1.0.6
make
cp bzlib.h /mingw/include/
cp libbz2.a /mingw/lib
tar xzvf gsm-1.0.13.tar.bz2
cd gsm-1.0-pl13/
make
Just ignore the compile errors with fchmod and fchown when trying to build applications. Copy the header and static library to /mingw:
mkdir /mingw/include/gsm
cp inc/gsm.h /mingw/include/gsm
cp lib/libgsm.a /mingw/lib
./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-expopt=full
make
make install
The source code for these libraries can be obtained from xiph.org. Compile them each like this:
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
As for speex, use the version 1.2rc1 or later.
FAAC is an MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder. Get the source (faac-1.28.tar.gz) and unpack the package. Then, edit Makefile.am:
SUBDIRS = include libfaac
Also, edit the line beginning with AC_OUTPUT in the file configure.in:
AC_OUTPUT(libfaac/Makefile include/Makefile Makefile)
Then, compile FAAC like this
sh bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
/mingw/bin/yasm.exe). Get the XviD source from xvid.org and compile as follows:tar xzvf xvidcore-1.3.2.tar.gz
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
If you encounter "unrecognized command-line option -mno-cygwin" errors, open the file platform.inc in a text editor and delete "-mno-cygwin". Then, run make and make install again.
Copy the import library for xvidcore.dll:
cp -iv \=build/xvidcore.dll.a /mingw/lib/libxvidcore.a
configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-win32thread --extra-cflags="-DX264_VERSION=20100422"
make
make install
cp -iv x264.h x264_config.h /mingw/include
cp -iv libx264.a /mingw/lib
cp -iv x264.pc /mingw/lib/pkgconfig
You need pr.exe from MYS coreutils package (coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-ext.tar.lzma). I configured ffmpeg with the following command:
CPPFLAGS='-DHAVE_INT32_T' ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-memalign-hack --enable-bzlib --enable-libfaac --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --disable-debug
-DHAVE_INT32_T is used to allow static FAAC to be linked. Then, I began compilation and installation:
make
make install
Some Windows applications, such as Audacity, uses FFmpeg libraries when available. If you want to compile FFmpeg dynamically, append --enable-shared --disable-static to the ./configure command for FFmpeg.
./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-memalign-hack --enable-bzlib --enable-libfaac --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-debug
If you get "int32_t" error when compiling libfaac.o, open /mingw/include/faac.h and insert the following line:
#include <stdint.h>
When I built mplayer with --enable-static and --disable-ffmpeg_a options to force linking with shared ffmpeg libraries, I had to rename ffmpeg libraries so their names end in *.a.
cd /mingw/lib
cp -iv libavcodec.dll.a libavcodec.a
cp -iv libavformat.dll.a libavformat.a
cp -iv libavutil.dll.a libavutil.a
cp -iv libpostproc.dll.a libpostproc.a
cp -iv libswscale.dll.a libswscale.a
cdrtfe is free CD/DVD/BD burning software for Windows. cdrtfe actually use the command-line program cdrtools as its burning engine. I have used cdrtools on Linux to create ISO images and burn or rip CD. I'd like to have cdrtools on Windows also. Fortunately, cdrtfe includes cdrtools Win32 binaries along with the nice-looking GUI application.
To install cdrtfe, I downloaded the cdrtfe zip archive (cdrtfe-1.5.zip) and unpacked the zip archive. Double-clicking on the cdrtfe file will start the cdrtfe program. (Warning: Running the Cygwin terminal and cdrtfe at the same time can cause a problem due to cygwin1.dll incompatibility, so close the Cygwin terminal before starting cdrtfe.)
So far, I have only tried ripping music CD's with cdrtfe. I will add more as I get to know more about cdrtfe.
To rip a music CD, click on the DAE tab and click the Options button. Check to make sure the options are okay.
Back to the main window, click Read TOC to update the track list, check the Save tracks to folder, and click Start to begin ripping.
ISO files are used to burn Data CD's. If you want to share software CD's with someone far away, you can dump the contents of the CD into an ISO file and then transfer the ISO file to him.
For this job, readom from the cdrkit package can do. If you use Windows, download cygwin1.dll and readom.exe, then put them in C:\Windows and start the Command Prompt. Put the Windows XP CD in your CD-ROM (Assume CD-ROM's drive letter is D:) and run the following commands:
readom dev='D:' f='/home/Public/Downloads/dumped.iso' speed=2 retries=8 -noerror -nocorr
Assuming we're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, we'll find the dumped ISO file at C:\Users\Public\Downloads\dumped.iso.
Alternatively, we can use WinImage to dump the CD contents. From the Disk menu of WinImage, make sure “use CD-ROM D:” is checked. Then, select “Create CD-ROM ISO image...” from the Disk menu. If you get an access error, close any Windows Explorer, Media Player or file manager.
We can also use CDBurnerXP, InfraRecorder or ImgBurn to dump the CD contents to an ISO file.
Merging 2 AVI files can be easily accomplished with mencoder. But the two AVI files must be encoded with the same video and audio codec. Assuming that you have part1.avi and part2.avi, seamlessly consecutive, the mencoder command to concatenate them is:
mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o whole.avi part1.avi part2.avi
VLC is a free, powerful media player for Windows, Mac and Linux. I've used VLC mainly for playing Movies. Sometimes, I use VLC to listen to Internet radio. I seldom use VLC to rip DVD's but VLC can come in handy when dealing with tricky DVD titles. For DVD titles with mixed VOB ID's, VLC can be used to dump such DVD titles. Follow the steps below:
In the Audio codec tab, check both options Audio and Keep original audio track.
Leave anything else as is. Click Save.
Although VLC has many built-in functions for ripping DVD's and converting movies, I don't have much experience with them. I think VLC's transcoding function is premature.
After VLC finishes conversion, you'll get an output file (output.ts) whose size may be up to several gigabytes. Now, use mencoder to transcode it.
I was using MPlayer to rip a DVD, but had a trouble dumping the third DVD title that was stored in the same VOB stream as the second DVD title. Running mplayer dvd://2 -dvd-device E:\ -vf cropdetect -identify showed the following output:
Playing dvd://2.
ID_DVD_TITLES=3
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=6
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=0.800
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=3196.467
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=3167.333
As can be seen, the longest titles are the main titles. I could dump the second DVD title with the following command:
mplayer dvd://2 -dvd-device E:\ -v -dumpstream -dumpfile title2.vob
But running mplayer dvd://3 -dvd-device E:\ -v -dumpstream -dumpfile title3.vob or mplayer dvd://3 -dvd-device E:\ crashed mplayer with the following error:
DVD Seek! lba=0xFFF08207 cell=0 packs: 0x108207-0x11AFA8
stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0xFFFFFFFF84103800 !
Core dumped ;)
I supposed this error is due to DVD copy protection. In this case, the DVD had two episodes of a show, but the episodes were stored in the same set of *.VOB files, specifically:
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_3.VOB
VTS_01_4.VOB
VTS_01_5.VOB
The first episode was in VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB and the beginning part of VTS_01_3.VOB whereas the second episode was in the latter part of VTS_01_3.VOB, VTS_01_4.VOB and VTS_01_5.VOB. I tried mplayer but couldn't extract the DVD title I wanted.
So I started IfoEdit which is useful for DVD authoring and fixing. I opened VTS_01_0.IFO in IfoEdit and clicked the VOB Extras button at the bottom of IfoEdit window. Specify the destination directory and click OK.
In the next dialogs, choose the Audio track and the video stream you want to include in the output.
Blu-ray discs require new and powerful CPU and graphics card to play high-definition movies on them. Although MPlayer is not yet suitable for playing Blu-ray discs, Mencoder can be used to rip Blu-ray discs in a more watchable format so that you can watch the movie on your average computer, laptop, iPod or iPad. I blogged previously on using Mencoder to rip DVD. Ripping Blu-ray isn't much different from ripping DVD.
Since Blu-ray discs are encrypted, you need to use DumpHD, Clown_BD or AnyDVD HD to dump the contents of your Blu-ray disc to your hard drive prior to ripping it. If you have Slysoft AnyDVD HD installed, right-click on the red fox icon on the right side of the taskbar, and choose Rip Video DVD to Harddisk from the menu. Then, specify the location where you want to save unencrypted Blu-ray contents. Note that you'll need more than 20GB free space.
After saving the huge amount of Blu-ray contents, open Command Prompt and type mplayer commands to play the Blu-ray movie. Here are some examples:
mplayer E:\BDMV\STREAM\00024.m2ts -vo directx:accel -vc ffvc1 -ao dsound -ac ffac3 -aid 4352 -framedrop
mplayer E:\BDMV\STREAM\00024.m2ts -vo directx:accel -vc ffh264 -ao dsound -ac ffac3 -aid 4352 -framedrop
mplayer E:\BDMV\STREAM\00024.m2ts -vo directx:accel -vc ffmpeg12 -ao dsound -ac ffac3 -aid 4352 -framedrop
To find available audio tracks, type the -identify option for mplayer to create a log file and look for AUDIO_ID strings.
mplayer 00024.m2ts -vo direct3d -vc ffvc1 -vf cropdetect -ss 180 -identify > log.txt
To encode the Blu-ray video with H.263 codec and resize it to 768x432 screen at the same time, the mencoder command would be like:
mencoder 00024.m2ts -o film.h264 -of rawvideo -oac copy -vf scale=768:432,harddup -ofps 24000/1001 -vc ffvc1 -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=1200:subq=4:bframes=3:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b:pass=1:turbo=1
My second-pass mencoder command would be:
mencoder 00024.m2ts -o film.264 -of rawvideo -oac copy -vf scale=768:432,harddup -ofps 24000/1001 -vc ffvc1 -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=1200:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=4:bframes=3:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b:pass=2:trellis=1:psnr
I like to convert 5.1-channel AC3 audio to 6-channel AAC sound.
mplayer 00024.m2ts -vo null -vc null -aid 4352 -ao pcm:fast:file=audio-en-51.pcm -ac ffac3 -channels 6
faac --mpeg-vers 4 -q 108 -c 16800 -I 2,6 audio-en-51.pcm
Finally, let's put together a Matroska package from the video and audio
mkvmerge --title "Le Film" --default-language fr --chapters Chapters.txt -o le_film.mkv --track-name 0:"Video_Title" --default-duration 0:23.976fps --display-dimensions 0:768x432 --noaudio film.264 --default-track 0 --language 0:fr audio-fr-51.aac
This short guide will help you rip a CD with a few command-line tools. Download the following files and put them in a folder, such as C:\WINDOWS.
Insert your music CD into the CD-ROM drive and open a command prompt (cmd.exe). First, run the following command to find your CD-ROM drive.
icedax -scanbus
The following command will display the contents of your CD:
icedax dev='D:' cddb=1 -J
The following command will save the second track as track2.wav:
icedax dev='D:' cddb=1 track=2 track2.wav
The following command will save each track as track##.wav:
for %i in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) do icedax dev='D:' cddb=1 track=%i track%i.wav
For brief help on icedax command, type:
icedax -h
LAME is a free MP3 encoder. I've written how to compile LAME in a previous post. The numerous options of LAME can be confusing to new users. After reading the output of lame --help, lame --preset help and lame --longhelp, I decided to go with one of the following presets and the -h option:
The following is options related to ID3 tagging:
ID3 tag options:
--tt <title> audio/song title (max 30 chars for version 1 tag)
--ta <artist> audio/song artist (max 30 chars for version 1 tag)
--tl <album> audio/song album (max 30 chars for version 1 tag)
--ty <year> audio/song year of issue (1 to 9999)
--tc <comment> user-defined text (max 30 chars for v1 tag, 28 for v1.1)
--tn <track[/total]> audio/song track number and (optionally) the total
number of tracks on the original recording. (track
and total each 1 to 255. just the track number
creates v1.1 tag, providing a total forces v2.0).
--tg <genre> audio/song genre (name or number in list)
Here's an example LAME command using my favorite preset hifi:
LAME --preset hifi -h --tt "House Party Remix" track3.wav PartyRemix.mp3
This converts track3.wav to PartyRemix.mp3 using ABR 160kbps hifi encoding.
Since I compiled MPlayer and Mencoder, I can use the programs for ripping DVD's as well as watching movies. Usually, I use SMPlayer frontend to play movies. Here I summarize how to make AVI, Matroska (.MKV) or MP4 files containing H.264 video and AAC audio.
First, download my Mplayer/Mencoder builds for Windows. MKVtoolnix is also needed.
In most cases, the first DVD title is the movie you want. Often, you can watch the feature title with the following command (Assuming D: is the DVD drive):
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -ao dsound -vo directx:accel
For Windows Vista and Windows 7, direct3d is recommended as video output:
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -ao dsound -vo direct3d
However, some DVD's have a feature title on a track other than the first. For such DVD's, trying each track can be tedious. The following command will help identify the main title on the DVD and also find information on available chapters and subtitles.
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -identify -vf cropdetect > log.txt
Stop the movie after a moment (pressing q) and you'll get the log file log.txt. In the log.txt file, you'll find the main title to be the longest:
ID_DVD_TITLE_15_LENGTH=12.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_16_LENGTH=5513.533
ID_DVD_TITLE_17_LENGTH=0.500
Here, you find that the 16th title is the feature film.
You can use MPlayer to save a DVD title on hard drive:
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D: -v -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.vob
Now you can put aside your DVD. From now on, you can work with the VOB file saved on your hard drive. Alternatively, you can use VLC to dump a DVD title.
If your DVD is widescreen (not fullscreen), look for the crop values from the log.txt file obtained above:
[CROP] Crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 60..417 (-vf crop=720:352:0:64).
In this example, the crop value will be 720:352:0:64. Note that the first two values (here 720 and 352) have to be divisible by 16.
The following command actually creates an AVI file encoded in H.264:
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -o movie.avi -oac faac -faacopts object=2:br=128 -vf pp=lb,filmdint,crop=704:464:6:10,scale=720:480,harddup -sws 8 -ofps 24000/1001 -ovc x264 -x264encopts crf=20:8x8dct:frameref=4:bframes=3:b_pyramid=normal:weight_b
The -vf scale= filter is used to resize the video stream. The output refresh rate will be 24000/1001=23.976 frames per second. If you're concerned with encoding speed, set bframes=2.
The following example shows how to create an AVI file encoded in MPEG-4. In the example below, the encoding bitrate is moderately 768 kilobits per second. The crop filter is only for widescreen titles.:
set VENCOPTS=vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=896:vmax_b_frames=2:mbd=2:v4mv:last_pred=3:trell:cbp
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -o NUL -nosound -vf yadif=0,crop=704:464:6:10,scale=720:480,harddup -ovc lavc -lavcopts %VENCOPTS%:autoaspect:vpass=1
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E:\ -o movie.avi -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=128,aq=2,vol=8 -vf yadif=0,crop=704:464:6:10,scale=720:480 -ovc lavc -lavcopts %VENCOPTS%:autoaspect:vpass=2
The following example command encodes the English sound track (aid 128) to +8dB-amplified 96kbps MP3:
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -o audio-en.mp3 -of rawaudio -ovc frameno -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=96,aq=2,vol=8
The following example encodes an AAC file:
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device E: -o audio-en.aac -of rawaudio -ovc frameno -aid 128 -oac faac -faacopts object=2:br=128
Another way to encode DVD audio is to save the sound as .WAV file and encode it with LAME MP3 encoder. First, extract the audio as .WAV file. Then, encode the .WAV file to MP3.
mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device D:\ -vo null -vc null -aid 128 -ao pcm:fast:file=audio-en.wav
lame --preset tape -h audio-en.wav audio-en.mp3
Later, you can mux AVI:
mencoder.exe -ffourcc DIVX -oac copy -ovc copy -o final_movie.avi -audiofile audio-en.mp3 movie.avi
In the log.txt file, you'll find a section that looks like:
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:03:37,00:05:42,00:09:12,00:11:24,00:16:18,00:20:21,00:22:56,00:26:14,00:29:31,00:32:26,00:35:13,00:38:13,00:42:14,00:43:47,00:48:25,00:51:45,00:53:52,00:57:32,01:00:04,01:05:44,01:08:29,01:10:45,01:13:53,01:18:21,01:21:10,01:24:45,01:28:53,01:31:32,01:33:36,01:35:36,01:38:57,01:41:44,
With a text editor, create a text file chapters.txt and put something like:
CHAPTER01=00:00:00.00
CHAPTER01NAME=My name is John Connor.
CHAPTER02=00:03:37.01
CHAPTER02NAME=Weight of the future.
CHAPTER03=00:05:42.16
CHAPTER03NAME=T-X arrives.
If you look at the log.txt file gotten above, you'll find information on subtitles.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=en
subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: fr
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_LANG=fr
subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: es
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=2
ID_SID_2_LANG=es
To extract DVD subtitles, I ran the following command in the Command Prompt:
mencoder movie.vob -nosound -ovc frameno -o nul -sid 0 -vobsubout subtitle-en -vobsuboutindex 0 -vobsuboutid en
mencoder movie.vob -nosound -ovc frameno -o nul -sid 1 -vobsubout subtitle-fr -vobsuboutindex 1 -vobsuboutid fr
mencoder movie.vob -nosound -ovc frameno -o nul -sid 2 -vobsubout subtitle-es -vobsuboutindex 2 -vobsuboutid es
The sid and vobsuboutindex number can be obtained from the log.txt file above. Do this for each subtitle but remember to name each output file uniquely.
Let's put together the video, audio and subtitles into a Matroska package. For this task, a command-line tool mkvmerge from MkvToolNix project is used.
mkvmerge
--title "Holiday Trip" --chapters CHAPTERS.TXT -o my_movie.mkv
--aspect-ratio 0:4/3
--track-name 1:"English AAC audio" --default-track 1 --language 1:en movie.avi
--track-name 0:"French AAC audio" --language 0:fr audio-fr-51.aac
--language 0:en en.idx --language 0:fr fr.idx --language 0:es es.idx
If there's a problem with audio/video synchronization, use the --sync option with mkvmerge. For example, the following command makes the audio track start at 13 seconds after the video starts:
mkvmerge -o movie.mkv video.264 --sync 0:13000 audio.mp3
Use MP4Box to create a .MP4 movie.
MP4Box -add video.h264 -add audio-en.mp3:lang=eng -add audio-fr.mp3:lang=fre -add en.idx -add fr.idx -add es.idx -fps 23.976 -chap CHAPTERS.TXT movie.mp4
I am building RipOff which is a GTK+ application that rips Audio CD's. RipOff depends on GTK+ 2.4 and up, libcdio, libcddb, libogg, libvorbis, Lame and FLAC. Let's first build RipOff dependencies:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared --disable-debug
make
make install
tar xzvf libcdio-0.82.tar.gz
cd libcdio-0.82
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install
tar xzvf Downloads/libcddb-1.3.2.tar.gz
cd libcddb-1.3.2/
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install
Compile LAME as follows:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install
Build RipOff as follows:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
The following files are installed by RipOff:
/usr/bin/ripoff
/usr/include/ripoff/RipOff.h
/usr/include/ripoff/RipOffConfigFile.h
/usr/include/ripoff/RipOffPluginRawInterface.h
/usr/include/ripoff/RipOffTrack.h
/usr/include/ripoff/config.h
/usr/lib/libripoff.a
/usr/lib/libripoff.la
/usr/lib/libripoff.so
/usr/lib/libripoff.so.0
/usr/lib/libripoff.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins/libflac.so
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins/liblame.so
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins/libvorbis.so
/usr/lib/ripoff/plugins/libwav.so
/usr/share/applications/ripoff.desktop
/usr/share/pixmaps/ripoff.xpm
Extracting AC3 audio from a DVD is a smart thing to do when ripping DVD's. First of all, it separates the audio part of the task and lets the user focus on the video encoding part. Secondly, it helps the user to make decision about the bitrate of the video depending on the size of output files. Here's my mencoder command to extract AC3 data from a DVD.
mencoder.exe dvd://1 -dvd-device D: -aid 128 -ss 4 -o war.ac3 -of rawaudio -oac copy -ovc frameno
Alternatively, I can use MPlayer to achieve the same thing.
mplayer movie.vob -aid 128 -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio-en-51.ac3
mplayer movie.vob -aid 129 -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio-fr-51.ac3
Oddly, the output file war.ac3 plays fine with MPlayer, but can't be played with VLC player. Is it because VLC player is inferior to MPlayer?
When Mencoder finished ripping DVD audio, it displayed the following:
Recommended video bitrate for 650MB CD: 434
Recommended video bitrate for 700MB CD: 502
Recommended video bitrate for 800MB CD: 637
Recommended video bitrate for 2 x 650MB CD: 1316
Recommended video bitrate for 2 x 700MB CD: 1451
Recommended video bitrate for 2 x 800MB CD: 1723
Video stream: 0.767 kbit/s (95 B/s) size: 593132 bytes 6183.043 secs 148295 frames
Audio stream: 448.000 kbit/s (55999 B/s) size: 345966435 bytes 6177.972 secs
This information is helpful in deciding the bitrate of the video.
To extract only video from a DVD, I used the following command:
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device D: -o war.264 -of rawvideo -vf filmdint -ofps 24000/1001 -nosound -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=720:vbv_maxrate=1000:vbv_bufsize=2000:direct_pred=auto:8x8dct:me=umh:trellis=1:pass=1:turbo=2 -ss 4
Mencoder is a command-line tool for creating multimedia files. It allows you to convert video from one format to another. When used together with OGMRip, mencoder helps you to rip DVD into a video file that's convenient to watch on computers. Note that the instruction herein explains how to compile Mencoder for the Windows platform, not Linux.
MinGW must be installed first (Look here for how). Once you have MinGW, launch MSYS (rxvt) from the Start menu and type the following commands.
PNG depends on zlib compression library. Download the zlib source from zlib.net and compile as follows:
tar xzvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.3
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
Now get the PNG library here and compile it as follows:
tar xzvf libpng-1.2.34.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.34/
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make
make install
Download the source for JPEG library, compile and install JPEG as follows:
tar xzvf jpegsrc.v7.tar.gz
cd jpeg-7
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
Download the libdca source from videolan.org and compile it like this:
tar xjvf libdca-0.0.5.tar.bz2
cd libdca-0.0.5
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
The source for these libraries can be obtained from xiph.org. Compile them like this:
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make
make install
Download the libcdio source from here. Compile and install libcdio as follows:
tar xzvf libcdio-0.81.tar.gz
cd libcdio-0.81
./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
make
make install
The Live555 library is used to decode streaming media. Get the live555 source from here and compile it as follows:
cd /mingw/lib
tar xzvf live.2009.07.28.tar.gz
cd live
./genMakefiles mingw
make
LAME is an MP3 encoder. This library allows Mencoder to encode DVD sound into MP3 audio. Download LAME from lame.sf.net and compile it as follows.
./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-expopt=full
make
make install
TwoLAME is an MP2 audio encoder. Get the source from twolame.org and compile it:
./configure --prefix=/mingw CPPFLAGS='-DLIBTWOLAME_STATIC'
make
make install
In case you didn't know, XviD is the most popular video encoder used in creating movie files found on the P2P networks. With this library, mencoder can rip a DVD into XviD video. Get the XviD source from xvid.org and compile as follows:
tar xzvf xvidcore-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
make install
In addition, change to the /mingw/bin directory and copy xvidcore.a to libxvidcore.a.
cd /mingw/lib
cp xvidcore.a libxvidcore.a
FAAC is an MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder. Get the source (faac-1.28.tar.gz) and unpack the package. Then, edit Makefile.am:
SUBDIRS = include libfaac
Also, edit the line beginning with AC_OUTPUT in the file configure.in:
AC_OUTPUT(libfaac/Makefile include/Makefile Makefile)
Then, compile FAAC like this
sh bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-static --disable-shared
make
make install
x264 is yet another good video encoder. x264 requires YASM to build an optimized executable. So get yasm and save it as /mingw/bin/yasm.exe. Then, compile x264 like this:
sh configure --prefix=/mingw --extra-cflags="-DX264_VERSION=20090608"
make
make install
Now you're ready to compile mencoder. Download the MPlayer source snapshot from mplayerhq.hu and unpack it. Then, type the following commands into the MSYS window to produce the executable mencoder.exe.
CPPFLAGS='-DHAVE_INT32_T -DLIBTWOLAME_STATIC'./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-runtime-cpudetection --enable-static --enable-theora --yasm=/mingw/bin/yasm
make mencoder
strip *.exe
mv -iv mencoder.exe /c/Windows
This produces a static executable mencoder.exe and copies it into the C:\WINDOWS folder.
If you'd like to try my mencoder build, download it from here. Its filename is MPlayer-svn-r30521-snapshot-3.4.5.zip.
After building MPlayer and Mencoder for Linux, the last fun part is to build OGMRip so that we can rip movies into AVI or MP4 files as found on the P2P networks. OGMRip is a graphical movie convertor that uses MPlayer and Mencoder to convert a movie into another format.
First, let's compile FAAC as it is needed to encode AAC audio. You need a g++ compiler, autoconf, automake and tcl-dev to compile FAAC, following a typical procedure:
./bootstrap
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --with-mp4v2
make
make install
The bootstrap command produces the configure script and Makefile necessary for the build procedure. The following set of files are generated upon compilation of FAAC:
/usr/bin/faac
/usr/include/faac.h
/usr/include/faaccfg.h
/usr/lib/libfaac.a
/usr/lib/libfaac.la
/usr/lib/libfaac.so
/usr/lib/libfaac.so.0
/usr/lib/libfaac.so.0.0.0
/usr/man/man1/faac.1.gz
Now, let's build the XviD library. XviD is a popular video codec. A typical build procedure for XviD looks like this:
tar xzf xvidcore-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
make
make install
Upon successful compilation, the following set of files are installed on system.
/usr/lib/libxvidcore.a
/usr/include/xvid.h
/usr/lib/libxvidcore.so
/usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4
/usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.1
Next, let's compile GPAC which is an open-source MPEG-4 encoder. Before compiling GPAC, install the following developer libraries, most of which are optional:
liba52-0.7.4-dev
libasound2-dev
libavformat-dev
libfaad-dev
libmad0-dev
libmozjs-dev
libogg-dev
libopenjpeg-dev
libssl-dev
libtheora-dev
libvorbis-dev
libwxgtk2.8-0
libxvidcore4
Then, compile GPAC as follows:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --cpu=i586 --enable-pic --strip --use-ffmpeg=local --use-js=local
make
make install
When GPAC is compiled and installed successfully, the following set of files are generated on the system:
/usr/bin/MP4Box
/usr/bin/MP4Client
/usr/bin/Osmo4
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_aac_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ac3_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_alsa.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_bifs_dec.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ctx_load.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_dummy_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ffmpeg_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ft_font.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_gpac_js.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_img_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ismacryp.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_isom_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_laser_dec.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_mp3_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_mpegts_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_odf_dec.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_ogg_xiph.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_oss_audio.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_raw_out.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_rtp_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_saf_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_soft_raster.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_svg_in.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_timedtext.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_x11_out.so
/usr/lib/gpac/gm_xvid_dec.so
/usr/lib/libgpac-0.4.5.so
/usr/lib/libgpac.so
/usr/man/man1/gpac.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/mp4box.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/mp4client.1.gz
/usr/share/gpac/gpac.mp4
If you encounter the following error during compilation:
scenegraph/vrml_smjs.c:41:20: error: jsapi.h: No such file or directory
make symlinks to jsapi.h and compile again as follows:
cd include/
ln -s ../extra_lib/include/js/* .
cd ..
./configure --prefix=/usr --cpu=i586 --enable-pic --strip --use-ffmpeg=local --use-js=local --extra-cflags=-DXP_UNIX
make
make install
Some programs require the gpac static library libgpac_static.a. This file is not installed by default. However, you can copy it manually:
cp bin/gcc/libgpac_static.a usr/lib
Finally, let's build OGMRip. First, make sure you have the following developer libraries:
libdbus-glib-1-dev
libdvdread-dev
libenca-dev
libenchant-dev
libgconf2-dev
libglade2-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libhal-dev
libnotify-dev
libstdc++6-4.4-dev
libtheora-dev
Optionally, install intltool, gtk-doc and xsltproc for internationalization and documentation. Then, build OGMRip as follows:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-gtk-doc --with-ocr=auto
make
make install
After OGMRip is compiled and installed successfully, the following set of files are generated on system:
/etc/gconf/schemas/ogmrip.schemas
/usr/bin/avibox
/usr/bin/dvdcpy
/usr/bin/ogmrip
/usr/bin/subp2pgm
/usr/bin/subp2png
/usr/bin/subp2tiff
/usr/bin/subptools
/usr/bin/theoraenc
/usr/include/ogmdvd/
/usr/include/ogmjob/
/usr/include/ogmrip/
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.a
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.la
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.so
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmdvd-gtk.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.a
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.la
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.so
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmdvd.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmjob.a
/usr/lib/libogmjob.la
/usr/lib/libogmjob.so
/usr/lib/libogmjob.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmjob.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-gtk.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-lavc.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip-mplayer.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip.a
/usr/lib/libogmrip.la
/usr/lib/libogmrip.so
/usr/lib/libogmrip.so.0
/usr/lib/libogmrip.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/ogmrip/
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmdvd-gtk.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmdvd.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmjob.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmrip-gtk.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ogmrip.pc
/usr/share/applications/ogmrip.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ogmrip/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmdvd-gtk
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmdvd/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmjob/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmrip-gtk/
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ogmrip/
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ogmrip.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/avibox.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvdcpy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/subp2pgm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/subptools.1.gz
/usr/share/ogmrip/
/usr/share/pixmaps/ogmrip.png
Now that you've compiled OGMRip, go ahead and test it. Be sure that mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, vorbis-tools, gpac, faac, lame, mkvtoolnix and gocr (or ocrad) are installed, also.
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