How do I rip a dvd including menus and extras to a menu driven divx file (or any lossy format that supports menus)?

command-line dvd multimedia

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Try Dvdrip.

Dvdrip is a full-featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use, but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife transcode and many other Open Source tools. dvd::rip itself is licensed under GPL / Perl Artistic License.¹

To Install Dvdrip, do that from the USC

^{¹Source: Ubuntu Documentations}

Another program is HandBrake. I don't think it can do menus, but take a look at it, you might use it for other projects.

I just stumbled upon AcidRip DVD Ripper. You can install it from USC. From reading about it, I think it can do menus, but I'm not sure. I* will test it once I'm done with the project I'm working on.

Take a look at this:

k9copy provides the following features:

The video stream can be compressed to make the video fit on any configurable target size

DVD Burning

Transcode DVD using mencoder or ffmpeg with configurable presets

Creation of ISO images

The possibility of choosing which audio and subtitle tracks to copy

Title preview (video only)

The ability to preserve the original menus ¹

^{¹Source:Ubuntu Apps Directory}

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John Baber-Lucero

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

John Baber-Lucero over 1 year

I am asking exactly this question for the same reason, but would like to archive dvds as small, low quality video, while preserving the menu choosing experience.

I would like to rip my dvds to something that has the same menus but whose video is in a much more compressed format. I do not want to copy a dvd to an .iso image.

How can this be done in the most automatic (hopefully CLI) way possible? Any format is fine so long as playback on linux is possible.
- Admin almost 12 years
  
  Do you need the menus, or just chapters, choice of sub-titles (more than one, on/off), and sound channels (5.1, etc.)? There should be a method of menu capture (to text based file), based on either image (snapshots) or full video (short video clips), that is open-source. Is there one out there? (If so, what tools support it?
- Admin almost 12 years
  
  I'd prefer the menus (and think they'd probably be easier) but if someone can manage to infer menu entries by OCRing the menu screens, I'm sure that's worth the bounty!
- Admin almost 12 years
  
  I currently use DeVeDe, but the menus and chapter selection is re-created (in other words, the original menu is lost). Maybe this is a temporary solution... :P
- Admin over 11 years
  
  k9copy is definitely the way to go. Make a much smaller ISO of your DVD. Then to watch later, just mount the ISO and point your favorite DVD player at it.
John Baber-Lucero almost 12 years

I tried installing it and ripping a sample DVD to see if it would give me menus, but it stuck at 30 minutes
Mitch almost 12 years

Actually, after I gave this answer, I tried it, and it worked fine, I'm on my 17th DVD.
John Baber-Lucero almost 12 years

If it gives you menus, I owe you the bounty. I've just got to wrangle my version to make sure it works. (I think you'll get 25 points of bounty anyway since you've got the highest rated answer)
Mitch almost 12 years

@JohnBaber Make sure it works first.
John Baber-Lucero almost 12 years

I did get it to copy one title, but it didn't preserve menus :(
Joe Tait almost 11 years

@Mitch FYI, it appears (to me at least), that k9copy is no longer available via the software centre, and I haven't found anywhere else to get it either, so I don't know if you want to edit the answer.
Mitch almost 11 years

@JoeTait Thanks. You're right. I've removed the info. But its still available at Ubuntu Apps.
Philippe Paré almost 3 years

Seems they both can't do menus...