Easily rip movies with AutoBrake.sh

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When my wife needed to ask me for help every time she wanted to rip a DVD to our fileserver, I decided to write a script that would make the process easy for her, yet still result in a high-quality end product. I figured it might be useful to others as well, so decided to make the script public, publishing it under the GPL. The result is AutoBrake.sh, a [relatively] simple BASH script that rips DVDs to H.264/Ogg/Mkv.

Please give it a try and let me know if you find it useful. Also, I haven't coded in years, so if you can contribute improvements you're welcome to do so!

-AT
 
[ot]I'm fun also of downloading DVD.Ok I'll try that.Thank you for sharing that.:)


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Autobrake [strike]0.8.30[/strike] 0.8.32 just released! This version adds 'ionice' support, which should leave your system much more responsive during high-IO operations. This is especially handy if you, like me, tend to rip multiple movies simultaneously. :)

Get the latest AutoBrake.sh here: about [AutoBrake.sh Wiki]

Report any bugs over here.
 
Version bump to [strike]0.8.33[/strike] 0.8.34*, which is a minor change in order to work with the latest version of mkvtoolnix.

* Minor change to fix a few typos I introduced in 0.8.33
 
Hey AT

Gave the new version a whirl yesterday. It took my Pemtium M around 9 hours to give me a prefrect copy (no issues with delay this time...) of the Usual Suspect. From the hip (I will probably check later), is it possible to set the ratio to 16:9 therough the script?

Thanks again for a fine release! :cool:
 
sabashuali said:
Hey AT

Gave the new version a whirl yesterday. It took my Pemtium M around 9 hours to give me a prefrect copy (no issues with delay this time...) of the Usual Suspect. From the hip (I will probably check later), is it possible to set the ratio to 16:9 therough the script?

Thanks again for a fine release! :cool:
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Are you talking about a DVD with both 4:3 and 16:9 versions of the movie?
 
No, I was referring to forcing the aspect ratio on the final "product".
But after writing (and having a look at MMG), I realised I could probably (not sure how yet) set the desired ratio in the script by adding an option of some sort, no?
 
sabashuali said:
No, I was referring to forcing the aspect ratio on the final "product".
But after writing (and having a look at MMG), I realised I could probably (not sure how yet) set the desired ratio in the script by adding an option of some sort, no?
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Well, if the movie is 4:3 and you want widescreen, there's no good way to do it. You'd either be stretching the image (people would look like Mr. Lemonhead), or cropping out the upper and lower 3rd of the image. So the answer there is to simply get the correct aspect ratio version of the film, and rip that instead. :D

If you mean just forcing the aspect ratio on a misbehaving video so it displays properly, that is possible with mkvmerge. You would simply copy and paste the mkvmerge line echoe'd in the final step of autobrake, appending the option:
Code: 
--aspect-ratio 1:16/9
 
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