beandog's mostly dvds multimedia wiki

3gp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-24T23:00:42+00:00

3GP I don't have a lot of experience with the 3GP container, but I wanted to have a stub page to point to what little I do have. You can see the Samsung Gravity 2 page where I encoded video successfully for that device. Most importantly, the specs I used: * AMR audio codec

aac

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-09-11T22:41:45+00:00

Advanced Audio Codec * Hydrogen Audio: AAC encoders - awesome reference

about

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:57:39+00:00

About I have spent a lot of years doing research on multimedia on Linux, and even do some developer work on Gentoo Linux for a while. I've picked up a *lot* of stuff in that time, and this wiki is a personal braindump of everything I can casually throw together.

airborne

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T02:12:51+00:00

Airborne * Problem DVDs My notes from 2008 complain about the aspect ratio for the PAL disc of Airborne: For movies with the wrong aspect (PAL), that should be flat but show up in 4/3 try this: mplayer airborne.vob -monitoraspect 1.00 That should straighten it out. :) Also, sometimes mplayer dvd:// will play them correctly (I guess it was a libdvdread issue the whole time).

alsa

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T18:02:11+00:00

alsa archives: ~/.asoundrc If I remember right, this sets the default audio output device to HDMI. See aplay -L to list audio devices. pcm.!default hdmi

amazon_usb_fire_stick

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-05-24T23:07:46+00:00

Amazon USB Fire Stick * Device specifications Hardware playback * HEVC * AVC * MPEG2 Software playback * VP8 * VP9

aspect_ratio

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-02-20T20:45:32+00:00

Aspect Ratio Every once in a while I try to understand aspect ratio better, and each time I get confused. Here's some starters: * An NTSC DVD frame is 720×480 in storage size * Display aspect ratio is stored in media file * Pixel aspect ratio is what you'd use to force something to

asus_bc-12b1st

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-13T22:18:53+00:00

ASUS BC-12B1ST DVD Drive * Optical Drive Speeds I managed to flash this thing with LibreDrive from MakeMKV so now it can play UHD discs as well! Sadly, the tray automatically closes if open for 3 minutes, and it drives me crazy! With DVD in drive: Maximum read speed: 8310 kB/s (CD 47x, DVD 6x, BD 1x) Current read speed: 8310 kB/s (CD 47x, DVD 6x, BD 1x) Maximum write speed: 0 kB/s (CD 0x, DVD 0x, BD 0x) Current write speed: 0 kB/s (CD 0x, DVD 0x, BD 0x)

asus_cm1831

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-13T22:47:17+00:00

ASUS CM1831 My media server! :D lshw output: tobe description: Desktop Computer product: CM1831 (To Be Filled By O.E.M.) vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. version: System Version serial: C4PDCG000CBD width: 64 bits capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 smp configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop family=Desktop sku=To Be Filled By O.E.M. uuid=7c7b47a0-ff17-11d5-8281-c86000e9eecb *-core description: Motherboard product: CM1831 vendor: ASUSTeK Co…

asus_p5q_turbo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-23T18:18:31+00:00

ASUS P5Q Turbo Default * C1E Support -- CPU Power Management - Enabled * Max CPUID Value Limit -- Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading - Disabled * Intel Virtualization Tech - Enabled * CPU TM Function -- Thermal Monitoring - Enabled * Execute Disable Bit - Enabled * Intel SpeedStep Tech - Enabled * CPU Speed - Disabled

avc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:25:57+00:00

AVC (Advanced Video Codec) * WikiPedia entry What you really want to see is the x264 page which encodes video to AVC. Or HandBrake or dvd_rip for software to encode it.

bedknobs_and_broomsticks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T02:18:05+00:00

Bedknobs and Broomsticks * Problem DVDs I should again emphasize that these are really old notes, pre-2008, and some of these bugs in software may have been fixed since then. I hit an interesting bug with a DVD, today. I was trying to get the trailers from Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I could play them with Xine, but lsdvd wasn't showing them anywhere. I finally fired up dvd::rip and it found them, but only when I wouldn't use lsdvd to probe the device. Also, the authoring seems a litt…

black_cauldron_the

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-11-13T16:41:02+00:00

The Black Cauldron The books are awesome. :) * Problem DVDs * ddrescue * The Black Cauldron on DVD has some new copy protection on it (I think). Either way, it's a pain, and had to work around some stuff. Thankfully, it flushed out some bugs in dvd_info that are now fixed! The basic takeaway is this: never assume that an IFO is valid.

blu-ray

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T05:25:05+00:00

Blu-ray * Blu-ray DRM * bluray_info * bluray_copy * bluray_player Some good software: * DVDFab * MakeMKV * Arch wiki: Blu-ray * bluray_info - my program :D * libbluray - ships with bdsplice to copy chapters, list_titles to display metadata * AnyDVD HD (Windows) * FindVUK * KEYDB * libaacs * libbluray * MakeMKV Tech: * BD-ROM read 1x speed is 4.5 MB/s

blu-ray_drm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T13:40:02+00:00

Blu-ray DRM * Blu-ray Similar to DVDs, which use CSS, Blu-rays use AACS for their DRM. There are two ways you can bypass it. Using libaacs and a KEYDB.cfg file, or using MakeMKV which bypasses it completely. Note that for UHD discs (4K), I've never gotten FindVUK to work on them, you will have to use MakeMKV.

bluray_copy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-02-12T13:43:09+00:00

bluray_copy * Blu-ray * bluray_info - main package * - source code * - releases bluray_copy is a program that ships with the bluray_info package of utils. You can use it to copy a track directly off a disc either to your drive, or to stdout. You will need

bluray_info

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-02-12T13:42:32+00:00

bluray_info * bluray_copy - copy a track to filesystem or stdout, part of bluray_info package * bluray_player - a Blu-ray player using libmpv * Blu-ray DRM * - source code * - releases * - DOCUMENTATION * - KEYDB.cfg downloads * libbluray homepage bluray_info is a small program to display information about a …

bluray_player

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-02-12T13:39:59+00:00

bluray_player * Blu-ray * bluray_info - collection of Blu-ray tools bluray_player is a small Blu-ray player. It uses libmpv as its backend for all the playback, so you will need mpv installed on your system to run it. You will need libaacs installed and a valid KEYDB.cfg file for playback. See

bolt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T01:46:30+00:00

Bolt * Problem DVDs * ARccOS I don't have this DVD myself, but a friend did, and I had some notes that said that it was hard to rip. IIRC, this was when ARccOS was new to the Disney DVDs, and one of the libdvd libraries had trouble reading it, because it would also have 99+ titles. Or something like that.

bwdif

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-27T10:52:13+00:00

bwdif * ffmpeg * *

c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-04-12T03:41:35+00:00

C Strings This took me forever to figure out, so I'm putting it here so it doesn't get lost. :) #include #include int main() { // References: // http://www.programiz.com/c-programming/c-strings // http://www.c-faq.com/charstring/index.html // http://www.c-faq.com/charstring/assign.html // STRINGS ARE ARRAYS OF CHARACTERS *WITH* A NULL TERMINATOR // Remember that, because that makes sense when you try to copy strings // from one place to another. It becomes muc…

cdrecord

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-17T22:52:20+00:00

cdrecord * Optical Drive Speeds I'm trying to figure out specifics on drive read speeds. cdrecord -prcap This is the first program I've seen mention anything about BD-ROM features. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a07 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'ATAPI ' Identifikation : 'iHOS104 ' Revision : 'WL0D'…

cdrom_id

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-09T08:11:54+00:00

cdrom_id * udev For polling devices and getting information sent into udev, the package builds a program called cdrom_id. It's located at /lib/udev/cdrom_id. Running it will give information that is passed to udev triggers. /lib/udev/cdrom_id /dev/sr0

cd_backup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-15T03:36:04+00:00

cd_backup Backing up a CD is a pain. Hence, this. #!/bin/bash device="/dev/cdrom" test -z "$1" || device="$1" disc_id="$(cd-discid $device | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" if [[ -z "$disc_id" ]]; then echo "Could not grab Disc ID" exit 1 fi if [[ ! -e "${disc_id}.wav" ]]; then cdparanoia -d $device 1- ${disc_id}.wav fi if [[ ! -e "${disc_id}.toc" ]]; then yes 1 | cdrdao read-toc --device $device --with-cddb ${disc_id}.toc fi if [[ ! -e "${disc_id}.cue" ]]; then cuec…

chips

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T01:56:18+00:00

CHiPs * Problem DVDs Old Notes: On Chips, ssn 1, disc 5 mplayer -noconfig all dvdnav:// will load the menu in aspect 16×9, then when you hit enter to play the first one, the audio is sped up, spits out a lot of errors and eventually crashes. Adding -nosound

cosmic_voyage

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T01:58:44+00:00

Cosmic Voyage * Problem DVDs This was, by far, the strangest DVD I had ever run into, that had just the weirdest issues. I think I got rid of the DVD (I can't find it in my collection) and supplanted it with the Blu-ray (which is gorgeous to watch, btw), and so this became a non-issue for me.

cygwin

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-18T23:51:57+00:00

Cygwin I've been playing with getting bluray_info working and installed on Cygwin. I don't know much about porting to it, but I can get the dependencies installed with some hacks. You'll need these Cygwin development libraries and packages installed:

dart

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-25T04:50:06+00:00

dart My own ripper. :) Logic flow! dart.php * if no devices are given, access all of them * set $first_run * for each device * start: * new DVD model * if ripping, getting info, importing, archiving or exporting an ISO, $access_device is enabled

ddrescue

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-08-01T16:07:35+00:00

GNU ddrescue * Ripping DVDs * pv * GNU ddrescue homepage I prefer to use ddrescue to rip DVDs for a couple of reasons: it skips over bad blocks, and it gives me good output of the read / write speeds. Here is a sample of ripping a DVD. Note that the arguments are required for when it comes to DVDs.

deinterlacing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T05:41:24+00:00

Deinterlacing * * HandBrake * HandBrake * HandBrake Command Line Reference I use bob video filter to deinterlace the video. On Jellyfin there is horrible stutter if I don't set the framerate. Since it is sometimes sending half a field as a frame anyway, I go ahead and double it for everything.

detelecine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-02-21T03:49:12+00:00

detelecine * ffmpeg * frameinfo * yadif * MPlayer documentation * * * * * * * First …

detelecining

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T05:44:16+00:00

Detelecining * HandBrake Command Line Reference When using HandBrake, you most likely want to enable detelecining to restore content to it's “original” framerate. As a personal matter, I only care about deinterlacing, and don't worry about the framerate. Some great information as to why is found here on MPlayer's documentation wiki:

dh-24acsh

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-13T23:08:11+00:00

DVD Drive DH-24ACSH * Optical Drive Speeds * Manufacture date: July 2012 * Firmware: LAA3

disc_id

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-09-17T05:35:45+00:00

disc_id * dvd_info * libdvdread disc_id is a very small binary that used to ship with libdvdread. The source code used to ship with the package, but was removed at some point. It's available on github now: My program dvd_info also prints it, out, it is labeled as dvdread id

dlna

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T05:46:20+00:00

DLNA * DLNA HTTP Requests * x264 * Matroska * MP4 * PS3 Note: Right now, all of this is specific to my Sony Blu-ray players that have DLNA support. See file formats supported by Sony. What works * MP4: baseline, medium, high profile; levels 3.1+; title tag * MKV: baseline, medium, high profile; levels 3.1+; VOBSUB, closed captioning, AC3 audio, chapters

dlna_http

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-08-16T04:47:43+00:00

DLNA HTTP * DLNA * DLNA HTTP Requests My working notes on looking at DLNA headers. Specific to my setup (minidlna, Sony BDP) only -- using the wiki as a location to keep notes. Not meant to be useful for people who are not me. :) Source: Episode ID 2002, 445063149 bytes, 425

dlna_http_requests

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-08-16T04:12:45+00:00

DLNA HTTP Requests * DLNA * DLNA HTTP I'm examining the HTTP traffic sent back-and-forth between the DLNA server (minidlna in my case) and the DLNA client (Sony Blu-ray player). Here's some of my notes on them. Source for headers is playback of a file up until the first 60 seconds.

downloads

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T06:30:27+00:00

Downloads See for mirror downloads of software for DVDs and Blu-ray on Linux. Old, and dead links since I let the domain lapse: ifo_dump I don't know what this is, and I don't remember what I used it for (if ever). But here's a copy of the 64-bit compiled version. I don't even remember where this came from. Most likely,

dragonfly_bsd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-24T21:57:48+00:00

DragonFly BSD * Device Names Both dvd_info and bluray_info build out of the box once the dependencies re installed. The default device for the optical drive is /dev/cd0 It not already installed, you will need automake and autoconf: pkg install autoconf automake pkgconf

dragonheart

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T01:48:24+00:00

Dragonheart * Problem DVDs * Disc ID: bee923b3bd260e0deef1e9cf5b454861 * Disc Title: DRAGON * Amazon Old Notes All I have from old notes is that this one won't rip. New Notes Using ddrescue it copies just fine with no errors. $ dvd_ddrescue /dev/dvd Ripping /dev/dvd to DRAGON.iso GNU ddrescue 1.16 Press Ctrl-C to interrupt rescued: 8029 MB, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 3463 kB/s ipos: 8029 MB, errors: 0, average rate: 6713 kB/s opos: 8…

dvdbackup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:02:49+00:00

dvdbackup * dvdbackup homepage The latest release of this is from 2012. You can still build it from source, but it will break with modern libdvdread. Use your package manager to install it (if it has it), as this will be patched to work properly. Alternatively, use

dvdxchap

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:45:11+00:00

dvdxchap * ogmtools The ogmtools package has dvdxchap which prints out chapter-format for an OGM container. It's kind of flaky, and has bugs -- I don't remember what they were since it's been so long. I wrote my own though, which does the same -- with bugfixes.

dvd_and_blu-ray_comparison

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:16:09+00:00

DVD and Blu-ray Comparison * What is DVD? * What is Blu-ray Disc, AVCHD, and HD DVD * Wikipedia Optical storage media writing and reading speed DVD * 720×480 (NTSC), 720×576 (PAL) * MPEG1 or MPEG2 video codecs * Video ~1.38 MBs/second * MP1, MP2, AC3, DTS, PCM audio codecs * Audio ~448 Kilobits/second * Color: SMPTE170M Blu-ray *

dvd_anomalies

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-05-16T05:19:47+00:00

DVD Anomalies 6-channel VMG audio I've found a number of DVDs already that have 5 channels (5.1 surround sound? offset of 1?) for the audio attributes of IFO zero. Some of them include: * Bon Voyage! * The North Avenue Irregulars * Matilda (PAL)

dvd_copy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-02-07T10:30:19+00:00

dvd_copy * dvd_info * - source code dvd_copy ships with the dvd_info package. It lets you copy a track with specific chapters from a disc to filesystem or stdout. See --help for options. There is also a man page. Note that saving to a vob or mpg extension doesn't change the content, I'm only adding those examples as a visual indicator that that's what the formats are.

dvd_drives

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T20:45:22+00:00

DVD Drives * dvd_drive_status * dvd_eject * regionset * trayopen Polling a Drive: Is Open / Has Media Polling DVD drives to see if it is closed or not is a real pain to do in Linux. (Edit: it was! Check out dvd_drive_status which solves everything here) I highly recommend reading this blog post where I describe various ways I poll the drive to see if it is empty or not.

dvd_drive_status

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-17T23:50:39+00:00

dvd_drive_status * dvd_info - main package * Linux cdrom.h * dvd_drive_status.c This program is a successor to the small program trayopen (which also inspired this one). trayopen works great, but it doesn't poll two things: if the drive is busy or if it has media. dvd_drive_status adds that feature plus a few more.

dvd_eject

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-17T23:55:57+00:00

dvd_eject * dvd_info - main package Along with dvd_drive_status, I wrote my own little standalone C program that ejects a DVD drive. A man page is included with the program (see man dvd_eject) that comes with the dvd_info package. It's very simple, and is not in the least designed to be a replacement for other eject programs. What it does do is it solves the problems that I run into: waiting for a drive to be in a

dvd_id

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:49:20+00:00

dvd_id * dvd_info I merged this into dvd_info --id The “id” is a 32 character md5sum of the IFOs. It's enough of a unique identifier for me. :) dvd_info --id 25604962efcb40c68be5a58d2f71f398

dvd_info

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:09:04+00:00

dvd_info * Homepage * Downloads * Documentation * dvd_copy * dvd_drive_status * dvd_player * dvd_rip * dvd_backup My own set of C programs that are small utilities for reading DVD info, and managing DVD drives. Includes: * dvd_info - a successor in spirit to lsdvd, can output information about a DVD in human-readable or JSON output

dvd_player

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-02-07T10:33:30+00:00

dvd_player * dvd_info - main package This is a tiny DVD player that uses libmpv (mpv package) as its backend for media playback. A man page is included with the dvd_info package, see man dvd_player for details. Custom Configuration One of mpv's strong points is that it can have configuration saved in your config directory. This program supports that as well.

dvd_rip

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:11:46+00:00

dvd_rip * dvd_info - main package dvd_rip is a tiny DVD ripper that is part of dvd_info. It is tiny because it has a subset of major DVD ripper options such as HandBrake. It uses libmpv to power everything, and is essentially a wrapper around mpv. A man page is included with the install (man dvd_rip).

dvd_structure

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-10T03:45:46+00:00

DVD Structure / Metadata * libdvdread * DVD Video Information * VOB file structure * DVD MPEG differences * Video Manager Group (VMG) * Video Manager Group IFO (VMGI): VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.BUP * Video Manager Group Menu (VMGM): VIDEO_TS.VOB (optional) * Video Title Set (VTS) * Video Title Set IFO (VTSI): VTS_01_0.IFO, VTS_01_0.BUP * Video Title Set Menu (VTSM): VTS_01_0.VOB Cosmic Voyage * VMG * VMGI *

dvd_title

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:53:08+00:00

DVD Title * dvd_info * lsdvd * volname I used to have a dvd_title binary I wrote, but I merged it into dvd_info instead. It returns the UDF volume name. It must be an ISO or the DVD itself in the drive to print it. $ dvd_info --title BATMAN_BEYOND_SEASON_1_DISC_2 Each disc will have a title assigned to it. This is a small string. The disc title is

encoding_specifications

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-19T19:53:18+00:00

Encoding Specifications Here's the specs I use to encode my DVDs: * HandBrake 1.0.2 * Matroska * H.264 * Level 4.1 (what Blu-rays use) * High Profile * x264 * slow, slower, veryslow, or placebo preset (slow by default) * animation, film, grayscale tuning

ffmpeg

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-10T03:27:55+00:00

ffmpeg * ffplay * ffprobe * frameinfo * framecount * detelecine * yadif * bwdif * Subtitles * ffmprovisr - excellent page to help you “build” an ffmpeg command * * - lots of good, detailed ffmpeg examples To do a clean MPG copy from a DVD: dvd_copy -o - | ffmpeg -i - -map 0:v -map 0:a -map 0:s -codec copy -f vob dvd_copy.mpg

ffplay

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-28T08:30:46+00:00

ffplay * ffmpeg * Play two videos next to each other for comparison ffplay -f lavfi "movie=video1.mkv[a];movie=video2.mkv[b];[a][b]hstack"

ffprobe

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-09T07:23:45+00:00

ffprobe * ffmpeg Probe a DVD for 64 MBs or 60 seconds to check for VOBSUBs that hopefully show up by then: dvd_copy -o - | ffprobe -probesize 67108864 -analyzeduration 60000000 - Input #0, mpeg, from 'pipe:': Duration: N/A, start: 0.045500, bitrate: N/A Stream #0:0[0x1bf]: Data: dvd_nav_packet Stream #0:1[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 720x480 [SAR 32:27 DAR 16:9], 29.92 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc Stream #0:2[0x82]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz…

findvuk

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-11T20:59:46+00:00

FindVUK * Blu-ray * Blu-ray DRM * - Downloads * - Downloads mirror Use FindVUK on Windows to crack AACS on Blu-rays. It will create a KEYDB.cfg file that has the entries used by libaacs. See MakeMKV also for Windows / Linux which has its own software to remove DRM.

framecount

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-14T04:35:35+00:00

framecount * frameinfo Display number of frames in a video and part of their types: for x in $*; do echo -n "$x: " tmp=`tempfile` ffmpeg -i "$x" -vf showinfo -f null /dev/null 2>&1 | cut -d ' ' -f 4- | grep ^n > $tmp ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -i "$x" -an -sn -vf showinfo -f null - 2>&1 | egrep 'i:(P|T|B)' > "$tmp" num_p=`grep -c i:P "$tmp"` num_t=`grep -c i:T "$tmp"` num_b=`grep -c i:B "$tmp"` echo "progressive: $num_p top-field: $num_t bottom-field: $num_b" rm $tmp done

frameinfo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-07-14T04:36:06+00:00

frameinfo * * framecount Display frame information: ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -i dvd_copy.mpg -an -sn -vf showinfo -f null - 2>&1 | egrep 'i:(P|T|B)'

handbrake

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:42:02+00:00

HandBrake * x264 * A "best settings" guide for Handbrake 0.9.9 * HandBrakeGuide Best Quality The best way to get the best quality from a rip is very simple -- try it with some settings and play it back in your client environment and see if you like it or not. :) Trying to find settings to work across the board for everything is only going to cause a lot of problems if you don't start with QA.

helper_scripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:54:27+00:00

Helper Scripts This is an archive of old stuff. Some things I wrote into dvd_info. This is just a collection of little scripts. avi2mpg #!/bin/bash F=`basename $1 .avi` MPG=${F}.mpg if [[ ! -f ${MPG} ]]; then mencoder $1 -o $MPG -profile dvd fi close_trays

hevc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:27:00+00:00

HEVC (Highly Efficient Video Codec) * WikiPedia entry What you really want to see is the x265 page which encodes video to HEVC. Or HandBrake or dvd_rip for software to encode it.

hl_ch20n

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-13T22:13:49+00:00

HL CH20N * Optical Drive Speeds Blu-ray drive. Sadly I haven't been able to flash it with LibreDrive.

hl_dt_st_dvdrw_bdrom_ch20n

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-12-05T09:52:38+00:00

HL-DT-ST_DVDRW_BDROM_CH20N One of my Blu-ray drives. P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/ata5/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sr0 M: sr0 R: 0 U: block T: disk D: b 11:0 N: sr0 L: -100 S: disk/by-label/LEGION_OF_SUPER_HEROES_D1 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:11.0-ata-5 S: disk/by-uuid/031f9aff20202020 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:11.0-ata-5.0 S: cdrom S: disk/by-id/ata-HL-DT-ST_DVDRW_BDROM_CH20N_K99D3Q84221 S: disk/by-diskseq/23 Q: 23 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/ata5/host4/target4:…

html5

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-03T21:14:35+00:00

HTML5 * * * So far, all I've seen is that Chrome can only playback WebM -- VP8 or VP9 video plus Vorbis or Opus audio. Firefox seems to support everything else.

ifo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-05-17T01:05:25+00:00

DVD Structure: IFO * DVD Structure * libdvdread * VMG * VTS * Video Manager and Video Title Set IFO file headers - data in both VMG and VTS IFOs * Video Manager IFO - data specific to the one VMG IFO * Video Title Set IFO - data specific to each VTS IFO archives: IFO notes * DVD structure I'm not really familiar with the low-level structure of a DVD since I never really need to get into it. My focus is generally on getting the content and as much metadata as possible.

ifoopen

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-03T02:59:00+00:00

ifoOpen * libdvdread Me trying to follow the code logic. ifoOpen * ifo_handle_t *ifoOpen(dvd_reader_t *dvd, int title) * if IFO is VMGI * ifoRead_FP_PGC(ifofile) - mandatory * ifoRead_TT_SRPT(ifofile) - mandatory * ifoRead_PGCI_UT(ifofile)

ihos104

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T04:56:44+00:00

LITE-ON iHOS104 My BD-ROM drive is an iHOS104, firmware version WL0D. 4x BD-ROM read speed, 8x DVD-ROM read speed. * Homepage

ivtv

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T00:56:25+00:00

ivtv Note: I wrote a blog post once on ripping VHS videos with the Hauppauage WinTV card. Still works great. :) To record from VCR Switch to component input v4l2-ctl -i 2 Use ffmpeg ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 .... Have fun!

jellyfin

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T13:50:46+00:00

Jellyfin * Homepage * Server Downloads * Client Downloads Jellyfin is a combination of both a server and client apps to manage and play your multimedia library. It is similar to Plex in functionality. It is open-source, and what I use for my media.

kernel_messages

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-09T08:22:47+00:00

Kernel Messages This is a collection of trying to make sense of some output that can be seen by dmesg or looking at your system log. Here's one I get when putting a DVD in the drive (and I only figured this out on accident, but it's been haunting me for years, so hurray!):

keydb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T05:21:14+00:00

KEYDB * Blu-ray * libaacs If accessing a Blu-ray disc with DRM, you will need a KEYDB.cfg file in ~/.config/aacs/ to bypass the encryption. You can download a key file or create your own using FindVUK on Windows. Best place to download one is from . I occasionally

libaacs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-10T02:43:44+00:00

libaacs * Blu-ray * Blu-ray DRM * - Homepage libaacs is used to access Blu-rays with DRM, similar to libdvdcss for DVDs. You will need a KEYDB.cfg file with extracted keys for playback located in ~/.config/aacs/KEYDB.cfg

libavformat

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-10T04:24:38+00:00

libavformat * Demuxing On a DVD, because you're not opening a file, you would tell the demuxer what you're going to send it in the stream -- video size, pixel format, and maybe more. See av_dict_set() for setting attributes in an AVDictionary struct. avformat_open_input() will scan the input until it finds out what it is. I think setting dict options would only apply though if you were passing rawvideo, and not something that was muxed already and had data about the stream.

libbluray

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-02T17:10:36+00:00

libbluray * - Homepage libbluray is the library you'll need installed to play back Blu-rays. You'll need libaacs as well to bypass the DRM. The software ships with a couple of programs that are helpful as well. Some of them are: * bd_splice which you can use to copy pieces of titles / playlists (see also

libdvdread

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-16T23:21:44+00:00

libdvdread * libdvdread wishlist * DVD Structure * ifoOpen * VMG - Video Manager Group * ifo_handle_t ifofile * dvd_file_t file * vmgi_mat_t vmgi_mat - VMGI - Video Manager Group IFO (VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.BUP) * vmg_identifier[12] - DVDVIDEO-VMG * vmg_last_sector - last sector of VMG set (last sector of

libdvdread_wishlist

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-11-13T18:32:19+00:00

libdvdread wishlist * Boolean to flag an audio track or subp as active or not * Boolean to flag a title track as invalid (garbage data), maybe * Have a dvd_playback_length struct, that decodes dvd_time and populates it with integers * Maybe add some enums for DVD values (codecs, frame rate, etc.)

lirc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T18:03:14+00:00

lirc archives: ~/.lircrc begin flags = startup_mode mode = mplayer end begin osd_menu begin prog = mplayer button = up config = menu up flags = quit end begin prog = mplayer button = down config = menu down flags = quit end begin prog = mplayer button = left config = menu left flags = quit end begin prog = mplayer button = right config = menu right flags = quit end begin prog = mplayer button = ok config = menu ok flags = quit end begin prog = mplayer button = exit co…

lsdvd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:12:47+00:00

lsdvd * Project Homepage * dvd_info - a clone of lsdvd lsdvd is a great console application for fetching data out of DVDs. Originally written by acid_kewpie, development stopped years ago, and distros slowly created and applied their own patches to their package releases. My own program,

makemkv

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T13:42:24+00:00

MakeMKV * Blu-ray * Download * Download Linux version * Product key - from upstream, it's free while in Beta Great software, though it is partially closed-source. I recommend using it, though, for ripping Blu-rays if you don't want to deal with extracting AACS keys. * makemkvcon man page See: for key.

matroska

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T06:28:53+00:00

Matroska * mkclean * mkvmerge Matroska is my favorite container :D * Options for improving playback on players that don't implement the full Matroska specification (from mkvtoolnix) archives: Making a file with chapters Unlike OGM, MKV can import an MPEG2 vob, if you don't want to rip/re-encode. mkvmerge --chapters -o movie.mkv dvd.vob archives: Metadata in mplayer

mencoder

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T21:37:53+00:00

mencoder Back when I was using it, mencoder was poorly maintained, but I think that has changed in recent years. I never had much luck getting mencoder to do what I want consistently across all my DVD library, so I gave up on it, and use it in scripts mostly to get metadata. Now I use HandBrake exclusively for any ripping/encoding from DVDs.

minidlna

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-09-17T05:34:39+00:00

minidlna * DLNA * MediaTomb vs. minidlna - I agree with the author's blog post * Gentoo artwork patch - replace Tux with Gentoo logo!

mkclean

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-02-06T16:54:04+00:00

mkclean * mkclean tool

mkvextract

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-07-19T06:01:33+00:00

mkvextract Extract the video track from a Matroska file mkvextract tracks 2x15._Day_of_the_Plant_Creatures.mkv 0:video.x264

mkvmerge

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T21:40:08+00:00

mkvmerge archives: mkvmerge notes Some DVDs have a commentary track, and I only want the English one. To use mkvmerge properly, the order of commands is relevant. mkvmerge -o foo.mkv -a 2 season_1_disc_1_track_3.vob That will output to foo.mkv, and use the 2nd audio track.

monsters_university

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-09-30T01:58:36+00:00

Monsters University * Problem DVDs * dvdread id: cc4ba17193648d8fcfbc06b009558bcb * lsdvd bug report Monsters University DVD would fail on lsdvd scanning it. I dug around and found out that when libdvdread scans the IFO, it skips over some of the program chain variables if it can't access it. Applied a patch to

mp3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:40:19+00:00

MP3 * - ffmpeg wiki * - ffmpeg with lame Strip an MP3 of all metadata: ffmpeg -i source.mp3 -write_xing 0 -id3v2_version 0 -map_metadata -1 -acodec copy no_metadata.mp3 Set metadata title: ffmpeg -i source.mp3 -id3v2_version 3 -metadata title="Highway to Danger" -acodec copy title.mp3

mp4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-09T18:08:06+00:00

MP4 * MP4Box * weekend multimedia notes, part two - where I cover the research I found about MP4 format archives: MP4 notes MP4 supports MPEG2, but not AC3 or DTS. Have to use AAC for audio. At least on paper, ffmpeg supports it fine, as does mplayer, but if you want it properly standardized for full portability, don't use it.

mp4box

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-08-20T19:52:22+00:00

MP4Box Because I'm snotty, and I hate typing commands in caps, I've got a symlink from MP4Box to mp4box on my box, hence the examples being lower case. MP4Box dumps output to stderr, so I get to be snotty in return. :D Display information about a file, its video or audio track:

mplayer-resume

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T17:48:19+00:00

mplayer-resume mplayer-resume is a PHP shell script I wrote to resume playback of files through mplayer. It works using slave mode and LIRC with mplayer, which outputs the variables to stdout. The wrapper script then keeps these values, and uses them to jump to that last point.

mplayer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T21:58:47+00:00

mplayer mplayer is my multimedia player of choice. * mplayer helper scripts * mplayer slave protocol blu-ray Playing Blu-Rays (unencrypted) mplayer br:// -bluray-device /path/to/disc Dolby Digital (AC3) through SPDIF Send audio through the SPDIF device to the audio receiver mplayer movie.mkv -ao alsa:device=spdif -ac hwac3

mplayer_helper_scripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T17:49:52+00:00

mplayer helper scripts * mplayer mplayer-benchmark #!/bin/bash # Quickly see if the video file is variable framerate or not if [[ -f $1 ]]; then mplayer -benchmark -nosound -vo null $1 fi

mplayer_slave_protocol

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T21:59:23+00:00

mplayer slave protocol This is an old copy of the slave.txt file (I'm guessing). I remember it was always hard to find, so here's my old copy of what it was: SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL ------------------- The -slave option switches on slave mode, in which MPlayer works as a backend for other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read commands separated by a newline (\n) from stdin. To try slave mode out by hand, run mplayer -slave -quiet and type slave comman…

mythtv

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T21:52:52+00:00

mythtv archives: mythtv notes LIRC Page Up and Page Down to map in LIRC is PgUp, PgDown archives: ~/.mythtv/lircrc begin prog = mythtv button = power config = Esc end #begin # prog = mythtv # button = Go # Swap the PiP windows # config = N #end begin prog = mythtv button = 1 config = 1 end begin prog = mythtv button = 2 config = 2 end begin prog = mythtv button = 3 config = 3 end begin prog = mythtv button = 4 config …

netbsd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:59:59+00:00

NetBSD * NetBSD Wiki - How to read CSS protected DVDs * dvd_info dvd_info I recommend installing libdvdcss and libdvdread directly from pkgsrc. The binary packages aren't built for support with libdvdcss. Make sure pkgsrc is installed first: ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc.tar.gz tar -zxf pkgsrc.tar.gz -C /usr

nightmare_before_christmas_the

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-05-16T14:56:22+00:00

The Nightmare Before Christmas * Problem DVDs * Disc title: NIGHTMARE * Serial ID: 291894C6 * dvdread Disc ID: 2897fd1cad398390b635383800a790e8 Handbrake Scan handbrake -i /dev/dvd --scan [13:47:23] hb_init: starting libhb thread HandBrake rev5474 (2014022199) - Linux x86_64 - http://handbrake.fr 2 CPUs detected Opening /dev/dvd... [13:47:23] hb_scan: path=/dev/dvd, title_index=1 libbluray/bdnav/index_parse.c:162: indx_parse(): error opening /dev/dvd/BDMV/index.bdmv libbluray/bdna…

nvidia_shield

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-20T05:00:17+00:00

Nvidia Shield * AVR / SURROUND AUDIO SETUP

ogle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T06:21:36+00:00

Ogle Ogle is a DVD playback application with full menu support (remembers subtitles, audio selections). Originally written by Björn Englund in 2001, and additional authors who helped port it and submit bugfixes. It has been removed from use in modern distros.

ogmmerge

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:41:25+00:00

ogmmerge ogmtools is an outdated old program, *but* it comes with dvdxchap which is golden (and I now have a replacement, dvd_info can output OGM chapter format). archives: ogmmerge notes including chapters It seems to only work IF you do -c argument first Known working:

ogmtools

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:47:05+00:00

ogmtools * dvd_info * dvdxchap * Project Homepage OGM Tools are OGG's set of tools for the OGM container. Pretty spanky stuff, too. :) I used to use dvdxchap to get a chapter format that I can use with mkvmerge, but now I use dvd_info to export them now (dvd_info --ogm).

openbsd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-24T18:09:16+00:00

OpenBSD * Tested with OpenBSD 6.5 Installation Once the system is installed, install git: pkg_add git Install buildtime dependencies: pkg_add autoconf-2.69p2 automake-1.16.1 dvd_info Install runtime dependencies: pkg_add libdvdread

optical_drive_speeds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-13T22:13:02+00:00

Optical Drive Speeds * udevadm * ASUS BC-12B1ST - Blu-ray drive * HL CH20N - Blu-ray drive * DH-24ACSH - DVD Drive * TS-H653B - DVD Drive Doing math and converting kB to Mb and so on gives me a headache, and I can't be particularly certain that I'm doing it right. Therefore, these are the speeds in

pal_to_ntsc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:41:34+00:00

Converting PAL to NTSC I have a number of DVDs on PAL format because they are not available anywhere else. Most of the time it's because I want a widescreen version of a movie. All my DVD drives under Linux and my BD-ROM can all read any region DVDs without having to use

plex

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T14:02:42+00:00

Plex * Homepage Plex is a combination server and client for media library management and video playback. I recommend the open source Jellyfin instead.

ponymath

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T13:48:19+00:00

ponymath * homepage * download mirror A perl script to gather x264 SSIM data, and graph it. Requires perl, mencoder, gnuplot.

problem_blu-rays

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:20:22+00:00

Problem Blu-rays Most of them will either copy or not with my bluray_copy with an updated KEYDB. If they don't, I shrug it off and use MakeMKV instead. However, there was one that started to copy, and died part way through the main title. It was Jurassic Park, and it died because of AACS decryption partway through.

problem_dvds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:17:39+00:00

Problem DVDs I have *a lot* of DVDs (over 1000), and I've run into a lot of interesting corner cases. It's my goal two do two things here. First, document the “bugs” that DVDs have either in authoring, or that cause libdvdread, libdvdcss or libdvdnav

ps3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:35:45+00:00

PS3 * MP4 * H.264 * AAC * MPEG2-TS * H.264 * AC3 - Dolby Digital * AAC Features PS3 will resume playback on a file, even after a restart. USB Very Important: When putting media on a removable device (USB) for playback on the PS3, there must be a

ps4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-02T23:13:16+00:00

PS4 * Supported file formats Media Player: DLNA Support It can't stream Matroska (that I can see), but it will take pretty much anything if it's in an MPEG2-TS container. That's what I'm using to copy my DVDs over directly so there's no loss. ffmpeg -i movie.mkv -c copy movie.m2ts

psp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-09T18:02:30+00:00

PSP * PSP Manual: Supported Video Formats * Transcode to PSP using Handbrake * MP4Box Display Aspect Ratio Calculator * HandBrake Forums - PSP Howto - I wrote this I have a PSP 1000 (the very first model) that I use to playback video on, just for fun. ffmpeg used to have a preset output for it, but no more. Encoding for the hardware is simple enough, with the right settings.

ps_vita

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-17T05:35:37+00:00

PS Vita * Encoding Sadly, I haven't had any luck getting my Vita to connect to my Windows box using the Content Manager Assistant. :( I can't get qcma built, either.

pv

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-03-07T23:45:52+00:00

pv * Ripping DVDs * ddrescue * pv homepage * A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer I sometimes use pv to rip DVDs because I like having a progress bar. Here's an example: pv -ptre /dev/dvd | dd of=dvd.iso

regionset

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-21T13:47:35+00:00

regionset * Homepage * downloads mirror

ripping_dvds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-28T05:56:54+00:00

Ripping DVDs * ddrescue * pv * vobcopy For the impatient: Read my notes on HandBrake if you're interested in ripping in the traditional format: ripping the content and encoding it to an MP4. Contextual Notes The term “ripping DVDs” is associated with ripping a DVD and encoding it to an alternative format. When I refer to ripping a DVD in this wiki, I use it in the context of only ripping the content from the original format of physical media. Not to worry though, there's lots of othe…

saa7134

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T22:05:45+00:00

saa7134 A driver for an old PCI TV card. archives: saa7134 notes # mencoder + tv # saa7134 to load module, have this in /etc/modules.conf options saa7134 card=2 tuner=2 oss=1 # sound setup I cannot stress how long it took me to finally get this, and I'm glad it does.

samsung_gravity_2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:21:15+00:00

Samsung Gravity 2 I haven't been able to find a list of exact specs listed from Samsung, so there is conflicting information out there from various sources. However, there are a few things I do know. For 3GP video, it supports h263 at 15 fps, and qcif (

samsung_tablet_a9

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-09-19T14:10:29+00:00

Samsung Tablet A9+ * Full specifications Codec Support Video * MP4 * VP8, VP9 - supposedly, specs just say “WEBM” Audio * AAC * FLAC * MP3 * Vorbis Container * MKV * MP4 * WEBM

sansa_c240

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-09-02T04:03:43+00:00

Sansa c200 This is probably the original Sansa music player from SanDisk. Mine is the c240, but using the c200 install for RockBox works the same. I've got RockBox on mine, so everything on the Sansa Fuze page is the same as far as encoding video for the player. The only difference being that the sizes are different.

sansa_fuze

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:36:00+00:00

Sansa Fuze RockBox * RockBox MPEG Player * MPEG-2 video * MP3 audio * Width x height: 220×176 * Video bitrate: 384k * Audio bitrate: 96k ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vcodec mpeg2video -s 220x176 -vb 384k -acodec mp3 -ab 96k -y video.mpg I added a udev rule in

sony_blu-ray_players

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-08-05T21:12:57+00:00

Sony Blu-ray Players * Amazon - S390 * Firmware * Amazon - S5100 * Firmware I have two Sony Blu-ray players. The BDP-S390 and the BDP-S5100. The first one I use because it has RCA output for my older TV. They both have wifi on them, so they can stream media. The video player also uses DLNA. It also has playback for MP4s and MKVs, but there are slight differences between the two models what they can support. It's only after a lot of nitpicking that I narrowed down the best setting …

sony_dvd_players

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-26T00:05:23+00:00

Sony DVD Players My two Sony DVD players. These are my favorite :D I prefer them over the newer Blu-ray players for DVD playback because they will remember playback position of up to six discs. It's awesome. I got rid of my old ones long ago, though, and I just have old ones I bought used. Sadly, I threw away my original remotes as well. I still have them programmed into my own remote, but it's not the same.

spanish_prisoner_the

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T02:05:06+00:00

The Spanish Prisoner * Problem DVDs For the record, this is a really cool indy movie. :) Here's my notes regarding this one, which according to the file stat, was last updated at Nov 16th, 2008. I had a tricky time getting the trailer off of The Spanish Prisoner. Here's what happened: lsdvd reports one track, the movie. mplayer-svn dvdnav:// says there are trailers on there. I used vobcopy -m to copy the entire disc. It copied a VIDEO .vob, 86mb in size which looked like a trailer. …

start

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-09-19T14:07:18+00:00

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 * - my github page of all my multimedia projects * Linux Blu-ray and DVD software - mirrors for libraries and software

steve_s_htpc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-02-05T21:27:27+00:00

Steve's HTPC silent boot Disable early boot messages: # CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP is not set Add to kernel boot command line to disable remaining output: quiet loglevel=3 vga=current start X on boot In /etc/local.d/x.start su -l root -c xinit -- -nocursor &

steve_s_preferences

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:36:55+00:00

Steve's Preferences * x264 * Handbrake This page is an archive My personal rule-set when ripping DVDs. Some references / general rules: * Always use film or animation tune options * Always use medium preset; if you want to tweak, do it somewhere else

subtitles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-10-27T00:49:58+00:00

DVD Subtitles * ffmpeg WARNING: ffmpeg automatically muxes the closed captioning in with libx264 if it exists, and will not show up in the map output, meaning it cannot be disabled. Also, mediainfo may or may not display it, while other applications (mplayer, mpv, HandBrake) will. It can be disabled in encoding with

svcd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T00:58:25+00:00

Super Video CD * VCD Similar of course to Video CD, but I'm finding these have less support on my players. Between my Sony DVD players and my Sony Blu-ray players, only the DVD ones will play these back. Everyone says to use VCD if you want the widest support base, though. Here's me making some:

tails

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-06T21:21:45+00:00

tails.beandog.org * * * Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) - doesn't apply to me because he's using libx264, but I like his explanation of comparing quality options in ffmpeg * CRF Guide (Constant Rate Factor in x264, x265 and libvpx) - same guy, just more comparison * - details on setting VBR * Video Encoding Settings …

theora

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-10T01:51:51+00:00

Theora * Theora video compression homepage * ffmpeg Encoding Guide Theora's own quality CRF goes from 1 to 10, with higher being better quality. I haven't used Theora a lot so I can't really say much about it. Historically, it competes with x264 and Xvid. ffmpeg Use qscale to set CRF. ffmpeg -i dvd_track.mpg -codec:v libtheora -qscale:v 7 video.ogv

tivo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T22:00:54+00:00

Tivo These are OLD notes. I had a Tivo 2 and a Tivo HD at the time. This could be referring to either one. curl --digest -k -u tivo:YourTivoMAK -c cookies.txt -o Brainiac.tivo "http://192.168.1.40/download/Brainiac.TiVo?Container=%2FNowPlaying&id=448614"

tomorrow_land

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-16T02:24:48+00:00

Tomorrow Land * Problem DVDs This is some really old notes on the Walt Disney Treasures DVDs. I was making notes on HandBrake, comparing it's success to my original attempts of extracting the VOB directly off the disc. It looks like HandBrake fixed everything. :)

transcode

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T22:03:17+00:00

transcode archives: transcode notes howto - transcode -i /space/tng-biggoodbye/vob/004 -w 4357,250,100 -a 1 -b 128,0,0 -s 3.311 -V -f 25 -B 12,10,8 -R 1 -x vob,null -o /dev/null -y xvid,null transcode -i /space/tng-biggoodbye/vob/004 -w 4357,250,100 -a 1 -b 128,0,0 -s 3.311 -V -f 25 -B 12,10,8 -R 2 -x vob -o /space/tng-biggoodbye/avi/004/tng-biggoodbye-004.avi -y xvid

trayopen

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-17T02:41:40+00:00

trayopen (archives) I wrote a similar program in C that does the same thing, but with more states. See dvd_drive_status. Archives This code has been a lifesaver to me when it comes to checking to see if a tray is open or not. Believe it or not, there's nothing good out there to query it! (And I've looked, too.)

ts-h653b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-13T00:03:23+00:00

TS-H653B * Optical Drive Speeds * Manufacture date: January 2008 * Original firmware version: D300 * Newest firmware version: D400 * Dell Drivers

tsst_ts-h493b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-17T22:57:00+00:00

TSST TS-H493B DVD Drive * Optical Drive Speeds udevadm info /dev/sr0 P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 N: sr0 L: -100 S: cdrom S: disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_CD-RW_DVD-ROM_TS-H493B S: dvd E: DEVLINKS=/dev/cdrom /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_CD-RW_DVD-ROM_TS-H493B /dev/dvd E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr0 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: GENERATED=1 E: ID_ATA=1 E: ID_ATA_DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE=1 E:…

tsst_ts-h653b

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-17T23:00:26+00:00

TSST TS-H653B * Optical Drive Speeds udevadm info /dev/sr1 S: disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-H653B S: disk/by-label/MUPPET_US S: disk/by-uuid/4339e87b20284745 S: dvd1 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-H653B /dev/disk/by-label/MUPPET_US /dev/disk/by-uuid/4339e87b20284745 /dev/dvd1 E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr1 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sr1 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: GENERATED=1 E: ID_ATA=1 E: ID_ATA_SATA=1 E: ID_ATA_SATA_SIGNAL_…

ubuntu

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-02T04:46:14+00:00

Ubuntu Blu-rays I've never gotten menus in VLC to run. You'll need a JRE installed, and also libbluray-bdj and libbluray-bin

udev

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-09T08:01:11+00:00

udev * cdrom_id * udevadm Howto create a udev symlink for a DVD drive I ran into this one on an Ubuntu 12.10 desktop. I have two DVD drives and one Blu-ray ROM drive. Devices /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 were showing up with /dev/dvd and /dev/dvd1 respectively, but the Blu-ray was only registering

udevadm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-09T08:07:29+00:00

udevadm * udev You can use udevadm to see the variables set by udev for a device. This is helpful if you want to get information about the device, based on whether it has a DVD or a CD in there, for example. udevadm info /dev/sr0 If you want to change any rules, such as in

uh12ns40

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-13T21:57:51+00:00

LG UH12NS40 * Optical Drive Speeds Blu-ray drive. I was able to flash it with LibreDrive from MakeMKV and now it can play UHD discs!

vcd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T00:57:35+00:00

VCD * SVCD * Create VCD in Linux * How to make VCD with K3B using Linux People have basically said, “if you want it to play *everywhere*, your best chance is Video CD.” It's true. I can get these to play in my two DVD players, and both of my Blu-ray players. Doesn't look bad, either. I like it as a good alternative and fail-proof backup of transferring VHS videos to something.

vhs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T00:28:21+00:00

VHS Note: The notes below are not the easiest way to rip VHS tapes. I found a great solution that still works to this day, and I wrote an entire blog post about it: archives: VHS to DVD conversion VHS to DVD conversion The best way I've found to do this is by using MythTV to record, since the PVR-500 provides the best picture on a component input. My VCR won't work with coaxial out. The sound and picture look pretty good, though.

vlc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-01T05:04:00+00:00

VLC * Blu-ray I use VLC primarily to play back Blu-ray discs to see the titles and playlists. You will need Java installed to view them. I've had differing success based on which version of Java is installed both on Windows and Linux. For Linux, any version of openjdk should work. For Windows, anything above Java version 8 I've had trouble with. You may have completely different results of course.

vmg

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-16T16:49:35+00:00

Video Manager Group (VMG) * DVD Structure * libdvdread The VMG is the collection of both the primary IFO and VOB. It is the first IFO on the disc. * Video Manager Group IFO (VMGI): VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.BUP * Video Manager Group Menu (VMGM): VIDEO_TS.VOB * VMG * VMGI * VIDEO_TS.BUP * VIDEO_TS.IFO *

vmgi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-16T06:29:35+00:00

Video Manager Group IFO (VMGI) * DVD Structure * VMG The VMGI is the primary IFO containing all the metadata about the entire DVD. Or as I often call it, IFO zero. Files are a normal IFO file, the first one on the disc, being VIDEO_TS.IFO and VIDEO_TS.BUP. *

vmgm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-05-16T20:07:07+00:00

Video Manager Group Menu (VMGM) * DVD Structure * VMG The VMGM is a regular VOB that displays the menus. The file is the VIDEO_TS.VOB file.

vob

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-03-01T04:31:39+00:00

DVD Structure: VOB * DVD Structure * libdvdread * VOB file structure * DVD MPEG differences VOB is a strict subset of MPEG2 program streams.

vobcopy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T22:09:54+00:00

vobcopy Use vobcopy instead of mplayer to dump a DVD. MPlayer has to demux the audio and dump the output, while vobcopy just copies the data stream directly. Proper syntax to get a DVD: vobcopy -l -i /dev/dvd -t movie_name

vobsubs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-08-05T18:14:04+00:00

VobSubs VobSubs are subtitles on DVDs, which are pictures overlaid on the video image. Extract VOBSUBs using mencoder. Will create dvd.idx and dvd.sub. mencoder dvd://1 -ovc copy -oac copy -vobsubout dvd -vobsuboutindex 0 -sid 0 -o /dev/null Merge them all into a Matroska file:

volname

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-09T05:15:44+00:00

volname * DVD Title * dvd_eject * dvd_id * eject You can use volname to get the disc title from a DVD: $ busybox volname dvd.iso RUBY_SPEARS_SUPERMAN_DISC_01

vp8

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-20T04:17:45+00:00

VP8 * VP8 Encode Parameter Guide * An Analysis of VP8, a new video codec for the web * webm wiki: FFmpeg VP8 Encoding Options * ffmpeg wiki: Encode VP8 * ffmpeg libvpx documentation Notes Both VP8 and VP9 are a bit confusing on how to get good encodes related to specific levels of quality, when using the documentation and vpxenc help output as references. In it's simplest approach, if using vpxenc, use

vp9

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-20T03:54:05+00:00

VP9 * GitHub downloads * webm wiki: VP9 Encoding Guide * FFmpeg and VP9 Encoding Guide * ffmpeg libvpx documentation * VP9 Bitrate Modes in Detail - Google's * VP9 Tips - Encoding Modes and Recommended Command Line Options - upstream's wiki * CRF Guide (Constant Rate Factor in x264, x265 and libvpx) * HandBrake github repo of documentation vpxenc By default, vpxenc will use 2-pass method for encoding. To gain a CRF-type result, use --end-usage=cq --cq-level= format, and …

vpxenc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-03-11T22:51:01+00:00

vpxenc Defaults: vpxenc --passes=1 -v --webm transformers.y4m -o vpxenc_defaults.webm Codec: WebM Project VP9 Encoder v1.5.0 Source file: transformers.y4m File Type: Y4M Format: I420 Destination file: vpxenc_defaults.webm Encoder parameters: g_usage = 0 g_threads = 8 g_profile = 0 g_w = 720 g_h = 480 g_bit_depth = 8 g_input_bit_depth …

vts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-05-17T01:23:56+00:00

Video Title Set * DVD Structure * libdvdread A Video Title Set is the pair of both the VTS IFO and all its VOB(s). * Video Title Set IFO (VTSI): VTS_01_0.IFO, VTS_01_0.BUP * Video Title Set Menu (VTSM): VTS_01_0.VOB

vtsi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-05-16T20:10:52+00:00

Video Title Set IFO (VTSI) * DVD Structure * VTS - Video Title Set Here are the headers that are generic to all IFOs: And here is some data that is specific to the VTSI:

vtsm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-05-16T20:13:51+00:00

Video Title Set Menu (VTSM) * DVD Structure * VTS The VTSM is a regular VOB that displays the menus. If the DVD title has a menu (I'm guessing here that it's optional), then the filename is the first VOB. So for the first title, it would be VTS_01_0.VOB. You can generally confirm this by looking at the size of the first IFOS, since they are generally very small in size (compared to a VOB containing a feature video).

webm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-19T22:15:41+00:00

WebM * WebM Container Guidelines Video can be VP8 or VP9. Audio can be Vorbis or Opus.

x264

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-10T01:56:02+00:00

x264 / AVC * Handbrake * x264 Quality * x264 preset reference * Authoring a professional Blu-ray Disc with x264 * Wikipedia: H264 * X264 - Motion Estimation Method- Comparison - I like this one. :) * Extreme x264 encoding * MeGUI/x264 Settings - the best place to get a description of each setting When encoding, if you want to cover all your bases, there are two H.264 settings to use, and two x264 encoding arguments to pass:

x264_info

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-04-07T02:32:10+00:00

x264_info Displays details of an x264 encode, using mediainfo. mediainfo $* | grep "^Encoding settings" | cut -d ':' -f 2- | tr '/' '\n' | cut -d ' ' -f 2- Sample: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=12 lookahead_threads=2 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b…

x264_quality

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-08-17T21:47:13+00:00

x264 Quality * x264 * Meaning of PSNR and SSIM scores - doom9, source of formula by Dark Shikari Use SSIM or PSNR to gauge differences between encoding settings. SSIM When comparing two values, here is the formula to discern what percentage amount something has improved. First of all, let's look at a two-pass encode of a file:

x265

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-04-10T01:56:14+00:00

x265 / HEVC * x265 Lossless

xbox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-02-20T18:44:12+00:00

Xbox I want to know the specs to create Xbox-friendly video. According to specs for the 360 here, here's what I can find out, that I want and would encode to: * MP4 * H.264 * High 4.1 * 480p30 * Stereo AAC * Embedded artwork at a max of 512k

xbr-65x900f

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-11T19:06:27+00:00

Sony XBR-65X900F * Sony 4K TV * Favorite Plex: kepler-armv7a-googlePlay-stdExo-7.12.2.9471-d5777e24 * Specifications * Help Guide * HDMI ARC Looks nice. :) Codec Support Video: * MPEG1 * MPEG2 * AVC * VP8 * VP9 (not documented, but it does support it) *

xrandr

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-06-28T18:08:42+00:00

xrandr Use xrandr to manually set the X resolution. xrandr -s 1920x1080+0+0

xvid

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-06-13T06:35:50+00:00

Xvid * ffmpeg MPEG-4 Encoding Guide Xvid encoder will create H.263 video files. The quality scale goes from 1 to 31. Highest quality encode: ffmpeg -i source.y4m -vcodec libxvid -qscale:v 1 xvid.mp4

yadif

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-06-27T02:04:57+00:00

yadif * ffmpeg * frameinfo * detelecine * man ffmpeg-filters * * * mode * 0 / send_frame - Output one frame for each frame (default) * 1 / send_field - Output one frame for each field (my preferred method) * 2 / send_frame_nospatial - Like send_frame, but it skips the spatial interlacing check

yuv4mpeg2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-10-18T01:36:30+00:00

YUV4MPEG2 * MPEG2 * MultimediaWiki: YUV4MPEG2 Raw video (YUV) in an MPEG2 container. I sometimes use this when I'm going to transfer from one source to another. Take an existing video and convert to a 480p raw video ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -s hd480 -an video.y4m

zotac_zbox-bi320

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-08-01T03:36:31+00:00

Zotac ZBOX-BI320 I love my tiny little Zotac box that runs Plex for me. :) In the kernel, load *all* the HDMI audio codecs as modules. It'll break otherwise. Also, the video card drivers (i915) must also be loaded as modules, or the box will segfault on booting.