<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">There was a question put across to convert DVD to a single file container with Chapters.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">This is the method I use to put my DVDs on my Popcorn media player.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">01. Use k9copy to create a 4.4 GB ISO image from the original disk (GUI program)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">02. Create VOB from this ISO:</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">a. List the contents of the DVD to find out which title to extract. (lsdvd)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">$ lsdvd -a -n -c -s -v /Media/DVD-Rip/Data/HPCOS.iso | grep Title</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Disc Title: HP_AND_THE_CHAMBER_OF_SECRETS</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><b><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Title: 01, Length: 02:40:47.243 Chapters: 37, Cells: 38, Audio streams: 03, Subpictures: 03</span></b><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Title: 02, Length: 00:00:22.010 Chapters: 01, Cells: 02, Audio streams: 03, Subpictures: 03</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Title: 03, Length: 00:00:12.000 Chapters: 01, Cells: 01, Audio streams: 03, Subpictures: 03</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Title: 04, Length: 00:00:29.320 Chapters: 01, Cells: 01, Audio streams: 03, Subpictures: 03</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Title: 05, Length: 00:00:32.033 Chapters: 01, Cells: 01, Audio streams: 03, Subpictures: 03</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Title: 06, Length: 00:02:13.000 Chapters: 01, Cells: 01, Audio streams: 03, Subpictures: 03</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Title: 07, Length: 00:01:56.000 Chapters: 01, Cells: 01, Audio streams: 03, Subpictures: 03</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Here we want to extra Title 01</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">b. Use mplayer to create the vob: (Here 01 after dvd:// is the title we are extracting)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">mplayer dvd://01 -dvd-device ./HPCOS.iso -dumpstream -dumpfile HPCOS-01.vob</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">c. List the Chapters on the DVD and save it to a file:</span> <span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">(Here 01 after -t is the title we are extracting)</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">dvdxchap -v -t 01 HPCOS.iso > HPCOS.chapters</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">03. Create the .MKV file from the vob container:</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">mkvmerge -o HPCOS.mkv --title "Harry.Potter-Chamber.Of.Secrets" --chapters HPCOS.chapters HPCOS-01.vob --default-track 2</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I have chosen track "2" as my default as the default track on the vob is Spanish or French. I had to play the vob file using VLC to determine this.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Creating the ISO file took about 30 minutes. VOB and MKV took about 25 minutes. So within a hour, I was able to get this done.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I tried out handbrake, which was mentioned in our meeting, but it seemed to take forever and I was not able to verify what it was doing in the background.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks<br><br>-GGR</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" clear="all">
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