Introduction

Abdvde is a Linux shell script that automatically rips a DVD with minimal or no user input. It is ideal for backing up your DVD collection to your computer.

Features

• NTSC and PAL support
• Fully automated headless operation
• Physical DVD, ISO, or VIDEO_TS folder as input
• Batch mode operation: Encodes all titles, the longest title, or specified titles
• Email notifications
• Cached operation which dumps the DVD to your hard drive to speed up the encoding process
• Bitrate calculator: Encode to a percentage of the original bitrate or to a specific bitrate
• Automatic telecine and interlaced content detection. Supported methods are deinterlaced using the best available algorithm:
  • 24000/1001p soft telecined to 30000/1001t
  • 24000/1001p hard telecined to 30000/1001t
  • 24000/1001p randomly soft and hard telecined to 30000/1001t
  • 25p telecined to 25i
  • 30000/1001p telecined to 30000/1001i
  • 50f telecined to 25i
  • 60000/1001f telecined to 30000/1001i
• VFR output. Experimental. Supported methods must be explicitly set:
  • VFR hard telecined to 30000/1001t
    • Currently only mixed 30000/1001t and 30000/1001p is supported. 60000/1001f support is planned.
• Automatic cropping
• Copy or re-encode the video stream
• Rip multiple audio streams
  • Copy streams unmodified
  • Encode to a different codec with custom encoder options
    • AAC
    • AC3
    • FLAC
    • PCM
    • MP3
    • OGG
• Rip multiple subtitle streams
• Rip chapter information
• Multiple container formats:
  • ISO
  • MKV
  • OGM
• Customizable MKV Tags
• Rip what you want. You can enable/disable:
  • Video streams
  • Audio streams
  • Subtitles
  • Chapters
  • Tags
• Adjustable process priority

Dependencies

• Mandatory
  • eject
  • libdvdread
  • mencoder
  • mplayer
  • p7zip
  • sleep
  • sox
  • x264-encoder
• Optional. Missing dependencies that are required will be automatically detected.
  • mail
  • mkvtoolnix
  • subtitle2vobsub
  • ogmtools
  • subtitle2pgm
  • faac
  • aften
  • flac
  • lame
  • vorbis-tools

Installation

To install Abdvde simply run the following commands:

wget "http://www.nathanshearer.com/modules/core/home/1/Abdvde/Abdvde-2.0.1.0.tar.gz"
sudo tar xzpfv Abdvde-2.0.1.0.tar.gz -C /

Configuration

Abdvde has two optional configuration files: /etc/abdvde/abdvde.conf and ~/.abdvde.conf. First the one in /etc is sourced, then your local .abdvde.conf is sourced so you can have a system wide configuration and user specific configurations. The config files follow shell script syntax to set variables and an example one is located at /etc/abdvde/abdvde.conf.example.

Download

The latest version of Abdvde is available here.