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
• https://github.com/beandog?tab=repositories - my github page of all my multimedia projects
• Linux Blu-ray and DVD software - mirrors for libraries and software
• MultimediaWiki
• KODI Video samples
• MPlayer Video samples
• DVD-Video Information - best reference
• Wikibook: Inside DVD Video - a technical reference for authors, developers (must read!)

• 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_rip - a tiny DVD ripper
• dvd_player - a DVD player
• lsdvd - the original!

• DVD Drives
• DVD Structure
• DVD Title
• Ripping DVDs
• VobSubs - DVD subtitles
• Subtitles - VobSubs and Closed Captioning

• Steve's Preferences
• 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
• http://bluray.beandog.org/ - tarballs I like to hang onto
• libbluray - main Blu-ray libraries
• libaacs - software to access Blu-rays with DRM
• FindVUK
• KEYDB
• MakeMKV

• Matroska
• MP4
• VOB
• WebM
• 3GP

• AAC
• AVC
• HEVC
• MP3
• VP8
• VP9

• Deinterlacing
• Detelecining

• DLNA
• Jellyfin
• Plex

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

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

• VCD
• SVCD

• VHS
• ivtv

• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• DragonFly BSD

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

• Sony DVD Players
• Sony Blu-ray Players
• Sony XBR-65X900F - my 4K TV
• Samsung Tablet A9+
• PS3
• PS4
• PSP
• PS Vita
• Samsung Gravity 2
• Sansa c240
• Sansa Fuze
• Zotac ZBOX-BI320 - my old Plex server hardware
• Steve's HTPC
• LITE-ON iHOS104
• HL-DT-ST_DVDRW_BDROM_CH20N - Blu-ray drive
• Amazon USB Fire Stick

• x264 preset reference
• 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, hosted at MPlayer

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