Linux DVDShrink : K9Copy

[platon]

Hi all,
i've read a few posts of people looking for a Linux equivalent of DVDShrink.
It seems someone is developping something like this there :
http://k9copy.free.fr

I tried it (v 0.3b), it seems to be interesting. A 1.0 version is available. If not perfect, it seems to be a promizing beginning at least.

Cya.

[Matrix905]

everyone prolly already knows this but, DVD shrink is usable under linux :P, I have DVD shrink running under wine on my gentoo box, and it works great!

alright that's all I got :D

- M -

[KpeX]

Not bad! My impressions so far:

uses vamps for compression which is I believe based on mpeg2enc (mjpegtools). Detail preservation is good, gets blocky fast much below 85% or so.
UI is a little confusing and has few options, but audio tracks and subtitles can be selected. The preview doesn't seem to always play the correct title. The UI is rather confusing as to whether it is title or titleset based. (Titles are listed, but they appear to be titlesets from what I can tell. Might be a language thing).
On the two DVDs I've tried so far, one came out right on the spot (4460 MB), one was almost a gig short. Not sure if it was a miscalculation or compression engine problem. Overall however this shows a lot of promise.

[GraDy]

Does it support chapters? IIRC xdvdshrink doesn't, and that's kinda a turn-off....

[nickrout]

I installed k9copy-1.0.0 on my gentoo box last night and made a 4.4G iso of Return of the King. A quick test in xine this morning showed chapters working - you could select a chapter from the "scene selection" window.

It was a bit flaky, but that could be because my computer is both underpowered and busy compiling stuff. I'll try it again tonight when it has quietened down, and will also burn a DVD and try it in my commercial players.

Cheers.

[nickrout]

OK I have now written the Return of the King DVD that was created by k9copy-1.0.0. I tried it in my Philips standalone DVD player (model DVD727K I think).

All menus, subtitles and soundtracks seem to be intact. However the video is a little "blocky" during fast movement, which I suspect is caused by the requantising.

The output that k9copy reported back to the terminal looked like this:

vamps : Info: actual video ES vaporization factor: 1.97237 / 1.97213 / 2.12200

(this was repeated many times with different but similar numbers.)

Maybe this movies is just too big to be requanted that much?

[GraDy]

Great to see that the chapters are intact!
Yeah, I suspect that K9Copy has problems with ROTK because it's so freaking long! DVDShrink's requant algorithms might be more refined too, might do some testing since I'm free from school for a couple of weeks.

[m3taPT]

Great to see that the chapters are intact!
Yeah, I suspect that K9Copy has problems with ROTK because it's so freaking long! DVDShrink's requant algorithms might be more refined too, might do some testing since I'm free from school for a couple of weeks.


Actually, no. DvdShrink is a real POS.

[KpeX]

Actually, no. DvdShrink is a real POS.Thank you for posting that helpful information. Please read the post about free pies in the DVD2SVCD forum and consider yourself warned.

[shevegen]

I think its good that Linux alternatives exist to good Windows Programs. It means that skillful devs are not only on Windows Boxes ;)

[chovy]

i've ripped two dvds with k9copy, and they both came out fine. I ripped it to iso file, then burned that with k3b.

However, a newer dvd (Capote) will not rip, with k9copy, dvdshrink on win32, or dvddecrypter. I suspect it's got newer encryption, i've tried several copies.

I'll try a few of my other dvds.

ps - whoever said DVDShrink works on Linux forgot to mention you have to have Windows installed....if that's the case, why bother running it from WINE?