Re: two questons about import

"Dan Dennedy" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.kino.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Gilles Sadowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>> 2) My local school district often films district events and makes them
>> available in as completed DVD.  A local organization I work with would
>> like to take this DVD, "open" it (so to speak) and be able to take clips
>> and put them on our web-site.  If need be I suppose I could go back to
>> the district and ask for video in DV format but I don't want to hassle
>> them.  Can I use Kino / Ubuntu to reverse engineer the DVD?
>
> You could first make a "copy" of the DVD with the "dvdbackup" program, then

Yes, dvdbackup is a good recommendation if the DVD Video is encrypted,
but I got the impression they would not be if the school district is
making them.

> use "ffmpeg" to convert the VOB files to DV:
>
>  ffmpeg -i IN.VOB  -f dv out.dv

I got the impression he was looking for ease-of-use, and Kino's import
basically automates this.

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