Dvd2Avi

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A simple Bash script for ripping DVDs; missing some of the more advanced features such as cropping, but aspect ratio is kept intact.

Here is an explanation of the various quality levels:

  • High: movie is 800px wide, audio is 320kbps mp3.
  • Normal: movie is 640px wide, audio is 160kbps mp3.
  • Low: movie is 320px wide, audio is 96kbps mp3.

To use the script, copy and paste it into an appropriately named file (such as dvdrip.sh), and then execute chmod +x <file>. See man mencoder for more information.

#!/bin/bash

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