k9copy

[BubbaBlues]

Is it still possible to find a .deb package of k9copy?

[claydoh]

nope.
KDE4/Qt4 stuff has been removed from most all distro achives for some time now.
Even the attempted k9copy-reloaded is too old to be installed.

[Beerislife]

Handbrake is still being maintained.

[oshunluvr]

makemkv and handbrake do all I need.

[dequire]

Is it still possible to find a .deb package of k9copy?

Someone could always do the port over to Plasma 5 / 6.

[BubbaBlues]

makemkv and handbrake do all I need.

I couldn't find makemkv but handbrake is awesome. I never used it before because I didn't want to lose any of the video quality
by encoding DVDs to xvid or divx (mpeg2) but I tried it and I can't really tell any difference. It even lets me keep the dolby surround
audio. And now I can fit it on a cd instead of a dvd. So thanks for getting me to take a second look at it!
Now I don't have any reason at all to have Windows cluttering up my pc.

[oshunluvr]

Cool. makemkv is a command line tool that rips straight to mkv. I prefer mp4 for my movies so I only use it when other tools fail.

If i have any complaints about Handbrake it's that there are SO many options and settings. I recommend spending some time digging around in the menus and help. For sure, you can rip in high quality. Plus you can exclude extra languages, trim the framing, etc., to make the resulting file smaller.

Funny coincidence that the day after I posted my reply, I was cleaning my office and found a stack of DVDs I own that I hadn't added to my media server - like 20 of them. To save time, I used "dd" to make ISO images of each DVD while Handbrake was encoding the previous one. dd could read the DVDs faster than Handbrake could encode them so I was able to get the stack off my desk somewhat quicker and do the encoding while I was doing something else like working. I wrote a little script to burn the DVDs to ISO, then opened the ISOs with Handbrake (I still have a few to go) but I have already cleared the DVDs off of the desk. Here' the script I used to burn:

#!/bin/bash
#
exec 1> >(logger -s -t $(basename $0)) 2>&1 # Log the script activity

#variables
iso=$1
dvd="/dev/sr0"
target_folder="/shared/Incoming/Movies/"

# disc label or input label
if [[ -z $iso ]]
then label=`isoinfo -d dev=/dev/sr0 | grep 'Volume id:' | awk '{print $3}'`
else label=$iso
fi

# important numbers
size=`isosize -x $dvd | awk '{gsub(/,/, "", $3); print $3} '`
block=`isosize -x $dvd | awk '{print $6}'`

#tell me what you're doing
echo $label $size $block

#do it 
dd if=$dvd of=$target_folder$label status=progress bs=$block count=$size

#spit it out
eject -T sr0

I named the script "rip2iso". My method is to insert the DVD and let the notifier "announce" the label of the disc. Many older DVDs will just have "DVD_MOVIE" or something similar and generic. In those cases, I invoke the script with a name like:

./rip2iso COOL_HAND_LUKE

Then the script reads the size of the actual data and the block size (99% it's 2048, but you never know for sure) and copies the disc.

If the DVD label is OK, then I invoke the script without any name and the script uses the DVD label as the ISO name.

I didn't bother verifying checksums because I knew I'd be processing all of them with Handbrake and I would know right away if one was bad.

[oshunluvr]

*** makemkv NOTE ***

If one wanted makemkv, the cli tool is here: https://launchpad.net/~heyarje/+arch...u/makemkv-beta

There is also a GUI version in the snapstore.