[NBLUG/talk] Copying video DVD's to disk?

[Kyle Rankin]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:36:14AM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I used a Lite-On DVD recorder to record a "MythBusters" marathon this 
> afternoon onto 3 DVD's.  I'd like to be able to convert them into video files 
> I can save on my hard disk, but I'm not quite sure how.  Any suggestions?
> 
> And just to be clear in case any MPAA lawyers are lurking on the list: there 
> are PLENTY of uses for such recordings that fall within "fair use", not the 
> least of which is the ability to play them on a laptop without draining my 
> battery (a 2.5" internal hard disk uses far less power than a DVD drive).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters		<sampln at sbcglobal.net>
> 
> Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
> 		-- Robert A. Heinlein
> 

Since you recorded directly from TV to a DVD, it's probably safe to say
that each DVD has a single title containing all of the episodes you
recorded as a single video. If this is true then the first thing to do
would be to put the DVD in a linux desktop and use a dvd ripping tool like
acidrip to convert that track to a single avi and then use a tool like
avidemux to strip out the commercials and split up the single video into
individual episodes.

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