Announce dvdbackup and a new version of the DVD-Video burning Howto
Hello Folks dvdbackup version 0.1 a fully functional dvdbackup program. With dvdbackup you can do the following DVD-Video backup functions without mounting the DVD. The DVD-Video structure created with the mirror option is suitable to burn to a DVD-/+R(W) disk. Total backup (mirror): Will mirror the whole DVD-Video (except for computer files) Backup main feature: Will backup the main feature title set with help of a half smart guessing algo Backup title set: Will backup a specific title set Backup title: Will backup a specific title Backup chapters: Will backup specific chapter(s) in a title dvdbackup also has a info switch that will display: DVD-Video file content of the DVD and title set information such as aspect ratio, audio tracks, angels, titles in present in the title set and so on.... For more information and download please visit http://dvd.chevelless230.com/dvdbackup.html I have also updated the DVD-Video burning howto the main news is that from version 1.11a27 of cdrtools you will no longer need to download and patches to enable DVD-Video creation. Joerg has now integrated my patches to mkisofs. For more information please visit http://dvd.chevelless230.com . Cheers Olaf PS: Low version number due to the fact that it hasn't all the functions I want it to have when it's finished. Beside it's also the first release (and some code is really ugly :)
Hi,
dvdbackup version 0.1 a fully functional dvdbackup program. With dvdbackup you ... Backup main feature: Will backup the main feature title set with help of a half smart guessing algo
i've just looked at your code - nice work! the main title guessing code/algo would be very usefull for mplayer too, when the user don't know which title to play and for the GUI. my first thought was that i stip down other parts of your code and import it to mplayer tree. but i think you can/will improve it even more, so it would be better to share that part. what about splitting dvdbackup.c, and make a separate file/lib with all the guessing code? anyway, we could include dvdbackup in the TOOLS section of mplayer package. what do you think?
dvdbackup also has a info switch that will display: DVD-Video file content of the DVD and title set information such as aspect ratio, audio tracks, angels, titles in present in the title set and so on....
do you know any way to extract chapter names from a dvd? is it stored in ascii form at all?
code is really ugly :) not so bad :) have you ever look at mplayer code? and it's v0.90 now :)
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team -- Developer of MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux - http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu
On Wednesday 07 August 2002 20:47, Arpi wrote:
Backup main feature: Will backup the main feature title set with help of a half smart guessing algo
i've just looked at your code - nice work! the main title guessing code/algo would be very usefull for mplayer too, when the user don't know which title to play and for the GUI. my first thought was that i stip down other parts of your code and import it to mplayer tree. but i think you can/will improve it even more, so it would be better to share that part. what about splitting dvdbackup.c, and make a separate file/lib with all the guessing code? anyway, we could include dvdbackup in the TOOLS section of mplayer package.
what do you think? hmm, IMHO on all DVDs I've seen so far, the main movie was title no. 1... -- Best Regards, Atmos
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:36:58PM +0200, Felix Buenemann wrote:
hmm, IMHO on all DVDs I've seen so far, the main movie was title no. 1...
I own only 6 DVD and on 2 of them title 1 isn't the main movie. -- Rémi
Felix Buenemann writes:
hmm, IMHO on all DVDs I've seen so far, the main movie was title no. 1...
Sad fact, but I've got loads of DVDs where the movie is not title 1. Kim Minh.
Hi On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 01:18:43AM +0200, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote:
Felix Buenemann writes:
hmm, IMHO on all DVDs I've seen so far, the main movie was title no. 1...
Sad fact, but I've got loads of DVDs where the movie is not title 1.
I've got about 20 dvds and in at least 14 of them the main movie is not title 1 :( Regards Jonas
Hello Arpi Sorry for the delay been very tied up with my dvd-create project (dvd-create.sf.net) On Wednesday 07 August 2002 11:47, Arpi wrote:
Backup main feature: Will backup the main feature title set with help of a half smart guessing algo
i've just looked at your code - nice work!
Thanks,
the main title guessing code/algo would be very usefull for mplayer too, when the user don't know which title to play and for the GUI. my first thought was that i stip down other parts of your code and import it to mplayer tree. but i think you can/will improve it even more, so it would be better to share that part. what about splitting dvdbackup.c, and make a separate file/lib with all the guessing code? anyway, we could include dvdbackup in the TOOLS section of mplayer package.
I can make a API of it if you like, i.e. split the guess part. If you want you can import the dvdbackup program to mplayer. I have it in CVS (Some bug fixes made) just see the http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvd-create/ . Please let me know what interface you want for the guess function. Yes, the code could be improved it was just a first shot of a guess algo. When I get the VMG_TXTDT_MG structure solved it could be a really good one (see below).
dvdbackup also has a info switch that will display: DVD-Video file content of the DVD and title set information such as aspect ratio, audio tracks, angels, titles in present in the title set and so on....
do you know any way to extract chapter names from a dvd? is it stored in ascii form at all?
Yes, on some DVD has it but mostly not. You will find that e.g. Sony makes DVD's with VMG_TXTDT_MG structures in the VIDEO_TS.IFO - however mostly it's just the title name info and info about the other titles on the DVD e.g. directors comments etc. Anyway I'm currently solving this structure it's not that well documented and dvdread doesn't export it - although when I'm finished it will :). Cheers Olaf
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Arpi -
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Kim Minh Kaplan -
Olaf Beck -
Rémi Guyomarch