[CLUE-Talk] Ripping DVDs and getting soundbites

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 09-07 17:50, Timothy C. Klein wrote:
> * Sean LeBlanc (seanleblanc at americanisp.net) wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> [snip interesting stuf]
> 
> > 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.  
> 
> You never should have posted this stuff, Sean.  Men in Black will be
> knocking on your door soon, and you will be vanished.  The RIAA & MPAA
> just a had a law passed legalizing that action ;-)

:) Well, that'd be pretty dumb on their part. I'm a revenue stream for those
guys right now...I have not tallied up my DVD count recently, but I'd wager
I've bought 200+ DVDs over the years (yeah, I'm a movie geek). Of course,
that's nothing compared to what some blood sucking MPAA lawyers could try to
bleed me for, but I'd think what I'm doing falls under "fair use". 
 
> So are you ripping just the sound track, or the whole DVD?

I actually rip the whole main feature to vob on the HD, then I generally
transcode audio portions of that. Sometimes I zero in on a chapter and just
rip that to vob if I know that's all I'll be working on. I think transcode
can work straight from the DVD, but some options are not available in
dvd::rip if you do this. 

Mostly I just want to get funny and/or cool quotes from movies. For example,
the test I used was a quote from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back....for those
familiar with the movie it's the part where Jay dictates his "rebuttal" of
online critics to Silent Bob. :) I know a lot of these clips may exist out
there on the net already, but sometimes they aren't edited in quite the way
I want, or have lousy quality, etc. Sometimes, I just can't find them at
all, so having the ability to do this is great. 

Next, I want to sample Dr. Strangelove ("you can't fight in here, this is
the WAR ROOM!!!"), 2001, Clockwork Orange, Clerks, Office Space and probably
a few dozen more...I also took video and audio from the climax of "Ringu"
and play that for my screensaver.  Creepy. 

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botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the 
heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got 
to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart. 
-Richard Nixon