beandog's mostly dvds multimedia wiki

This wiki is a collection of notes that I've gathered over the years when it comes to accessing, ripping and encoding DVDs on Linux.

• About
• Contact Me
• My Blog
• Linux Blu-ray and DVD software - mirrors for libraries and software
• Video samples
• DVD-Video Information - best reference
• Wikibook: Inside DVD Video - a technical reference for authors, developers (must read!)
• https://github.com/beandog - my github repo
• Amazon Wishlist - please buy me a Blu-ray .. for development purposes :D

• dvd_info - a small set of DVD utilities written in C
• dvd_copy - copy a track to fileystem or stdout
• dvd_drive_status - check if a drive is empty, polling, closed with or without a disc (Linux plus limited *BSD support)
• dvd_eject - close tray with checks to tell you when it's finished polling
• dvd_trip - a tiny DVD ripper
• dvd_player - a DVD player
• lsdvd - the original!

• DVD Drives
• DVD Structure
• DVD Title
• IFO
• PAL to NTSC
• Ripping DVDs
• VobSubs - DVD subtitles
• Subtitles - Closed captioning and VobSubs

• Steve's Preferences
• Problem DVDs - library of specific DVDs that have issues
• DVD Anomalies - DVDs that have something strange (though not broken)
• Kernel Messages - documentation of various events sent to syslog

• Blu-ray
• Blu-ray DRM
• bluray_info - print information about Blu-ray discs
• bluray_copy - dump track to filesystem or stdout (ships with bluray_info package)
• bluray_player - a Blu-ray player
• MakeMKV
• http://bluray.beandog.org/ - tarballs I like to hang onto
• libaacs - software to access Blu-rays with DRM
• libbluray - main Blu-ray libraries
• KEYDB
• FindVUK
• Problem Blu-rays - discs I've run into that have issues ripping, copying, accessing, etc.

• VCD
• SVCD

• VHS
• ivtv

• Matroska
• MP4
• VOB
• WebM
• 3GP

• AAC
• AVC
• HEVC
• MP3
• VP8
• VP9

• Deinterlacing
• Detelecining

• DLNA
• minidlna

• Encoding Specifications
• DVD and Blu-ray Comparison
• Optical Drive Speeds

• bluray_info
• cdrecord
• cdrom_id
• ddrescue
• disc_id
• dvd_drive_status
• dvd_eject
• dvd_info
• dvdbackup
• ffmpeg
• FindVUK
• handbrake
• libaacs
• libdvdread
• lirc
• MakeMKV
• mencoder
• mkclean
• mkvextract
• mkvmerge
• mp4box
• mplayer
• mplayer-resume
• ogle
• ogmmerge
• Plex
• ponymath
• pv
• regionset
• trayopen
• udev
• udevadm
• VLC
• vobcopy
• volname
• vpxenc
• x264
• x265

• DragonFly BSD
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD

• alsa
• mythtv
• saa7134
• Tivo
• transcode
• xrandr

• Sony DVD Players
• Sony Blu-ray Players
• Sony XBR-65X900F - my 4K TV
• PS3
• PS4
• PSP
• PS Vita
• Samsung Gravity 2
• Sansa c240
• Sansa Fuze
• Zotac ZBOX-BI320 - my Plex server
• Steve's HTPC
• LITE-ON iHOS104
• Amazon USB Fire Stick

• x264 preset reference
• reading, ejecting, ripping and polling dvd devices in linux; also, notes on my dvd library - blog post
• The Ins and Outs of Video Compression
• What is DVD?
• VTS,_VMG_..
• VTS, VMG and other stuff
• WikiBooks: Inside DVD Video
• Creating DVD Video with Linux
• dvdauthor
• Compare framerates

• libaacs git repo
• libbdplus git repo
• libbluray git repo
• libdvdcss git repo
• libdvdnav git repo
• libdvdread git repo
• libdvdread / libdvdnav mailing list - new, hosted at VideoLan (VLC)
• libdvdread / libdvdnav mailing list old, but still active, hosted at MPlayer

• Package dvd_info and bluray_info for Debian, etc. Gentoo already has it.

• I reference this multimedia wiki a lot because it is an excellent resource of technical information.