[CLUE-Talk] Ripping DVDs and getting soundbites

[Sean LeBlanc]

Some of you may recall that I asked a while ago how to do sound bites from
movies. Well, I found out how. It's all about dvd::rip. And mostly
transcode. dvd::rip relies on other tools, too, but transcode does most of
the heavy lifting.

Once the movie has been ripped to vob, I used the "clip & zoom" tab to
figure out roughly where in the movie I needed to start at. Then I cheated
by going over to transcode, and ripping just the portion I wanted to
soundbite. Then I looked at the log window to see what command was being
run. This helps in finding the seek position and the number of frames. I
modified that command to look like this:

transcode -H 10 -a 0 -x vob -i /rips/movie/vob/001 -w 1638 -c 4-790 -L
506462 -y raw -m track.mp3

I had to experiment with the values for -c (starting and ending frames) in
order to get the exact clip I wanted. 

The link I was given on the dvd::rip mailing list was very helpful in
figuring this out: 

http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/misc.html#audio

There might be easier ways to do this, but overall I've found dvd::rip to be
really cool. If I have to drop to CLI to get the sound clip, no biggie.  

-- 
Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at americanisp.net  
http://users.americanisp.net/~seanleblanc/
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