DOCUMENTATION http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/full_toc.cipp Printed: Fri Aug 14 17:22:56 2026 CET [ show page without screenshots ] Full table of contents [ Reduced TOC ] 1 Installation 1.1 Binary distributions 1.1.1 Debian packages 1.1.2 SuSE packages 1.1.3 Mandrake packages 1.1.4 RedHat packages 1.1.5 gentoo packages 1.1.6 FreeBSD port 1.1.7 OpenBSD port 1.2 Source download 1.2.1 dvd::rip tarball download 1.3 Requirements 1.3.1 External command line tools 1.3.2 Perl 5.6.0 or better 1.3.3 Perl modules 1.3.4 rar (for vobsub compression) 1.4 Install from source 1.4.1 Install dvd::rip 1.4.2 Update dvd::rip 1.4.3 Multiple dvd::rip versions in parallel 1.5 Uninstall dvd::rip 1.6 Download this documentation 2 dvd::rip GUI 2.1 Global preferences 2.1.1 Basic settings 2.1.2 Commands 2.1.2.1 Player commands 2.1.2.2 rar command 2.1.3 Cluster options 2.1.4 Miscellaneous options 2.2 Tool dependencies 2.2.1 Mandatory tools 2.2.2 Options tools 2.3 Storage page 2.3.1 Project name / directories 2.3.2 Data source selection 2.3.3 Choose a ripping mode 2.4 Rip title page 2.4.1 Read the DVD's TOC 2.4.2 Select a title for ripping 2.4.3 Select an audio track for volume scanning 2.4.4 Select a viewing angle for ripping 2.4.5 Set subtitle preview grabbing 2.4.6 Select chapter(s) 2.4.7 Preview the movie using your options 2.4.8 Rip the selected title(s) / chapter(s) 2.5 Clip & Zoom page 2.5.1 Preview frame grabbing 2.5.2 Viewing preview images 2.5.3 Show video from here 2.5.4 Using presets 2.5.5 Manual editing 2.5.5.1 1st/2nd clipping 2.5.5.2 Zoom 2.5.5.3 Fast resizing 2.5.6 Generate preview images 2.5.7 Calc height / width 2.5.8 Move 2nd clipping to 1st 2.5.9 Open zoom calculator 2.6 Zoom calculator 2.6.1 Resize parameters 2.6.1.1 Fast Resize Alignment 2.6.1.2 Result Frame Alignment 2.6.1.3 Achieve Result Alignment 2.6.1.4 Auto Clipping 2.6.2 Video Bitrate Calculation 2.6.3 Zoom calculations result list 2.6.3.1 Result Size 2.6.3.2 BPP 2.6.3.3 Effective Ratio 2.6.3.4 AR Error 2.6.3.5 clip1 (t/b/l/r) 2.6.3.6 Zoom Size 2.6.3.7 clip2 (t/b/l/r) 2.7 Subtitles 2.7.1 Select a subtitle 2.7.2 Grab preview images 2.7.3 Render a subtitle on the movie 2.7.3.1 Vertical offset 2.7.3.2 Time shift 2.7.3.3 Postprocessing 2.7.3.4 Antialiasing 2.7.3.5 Color manipulation 2.7.3.6 Value suggestion 2.7.3.7 Testing your rendering settings 2.7.4 Create a vobsub from a subtitle 2.7.5 vobsub compression with rar 2.8 Transcode 2.8.1 Container options 2.8.2 Video options 2.8.2.1 Video Codec / ffmpeg/af6 codec 2.8.2.2 Keyframe interval 2.8.2.3 MPEG variant (for (S)VCD/CVD creation) 2.8.2.4 Video framerate 2.8.2.5 2-pass encoding 2.8.2.6 Reuse log 2.8.2.7 Deinterlacing 2.8.2.8 Configure filters & preview 2.8.3 Audio options 2.8.3.1 Select DVD audio track 2.8.3.2 MP3 2.8.3.3 Vorbis 2.8.3.4 AC3 2.8.3.5 MP2 2.8.3.6 PCM 2.8.3.7 Filters 2.8.3.8 Sample rate 2.8.3.9 Volume rescale / scanning 2.8.3.10 Manage multiple audio tracks 2.8.4 Video bitrate calculation 2.8.4.1 By target size 2.8.4.1.1 Consider frame range 2.8.4.2 Video bitrate by quality, BPP based 2.8.4.3 Video bitrate by hand 2.8.5 Calculated storage 2.8.6 General options 2.8.6.1 Frame range / Test transcoding 2.8.6.2 transcode options 2.8.6.3 Process nice level 2.8.6.4 Preview window 2.8.6.5 Use PSU core 2.8.6.6 Execute afterwards / exit afterwards 2.8.7 Operate 2.8.7.1 Transcode 2.8.7.2 View 2.8.7.3 Add to cluster 2.8.8 Create a WAV file 2.9 Filters & Preview 2.9.1 transcode's filter concept 2.9.2 Available filters 2.9.3 Used filters 2.9.4 Filter information 2.9.5 Filter options 2.9.6 Preview control 2.9.7 Select areas in the preview window 2.9.8 Preview settings 2.9.8.1 Preview buffer size 2.9.8.2 Preview frame range 2.10 Log 2.10.1 Deleting the logfile 3 Cluster mode 3.1 Restrictions 3.2 Architecture overview 3.2.1 Security warning 3.3 Network configuration 3.3.1 Setup SSH 3.3.1.1 Hints for OpenSSH with SSH2 protocol 3.3.1.2 OpenSSH can't find transcode binaries 3.3.2 Setup NFS 3.3.2.1 NFS permission problems 3.4 Start cluster control daemon 3.5 Cluster configuration 3.5.1 Global preferences 3.5.2 Cluster control window 3.5.3 Add nodes 3.5.3.1 Local node 3.5.3.2 Remote transcode node 3.5.4 Node configuration 3.5.5 Node testing 3.6 Work with the cluster 3.6.1 Adding projects 3.6.2 Project properties 3.6.3 Start the project 3.6.4 Jobs 3.6.4.1 Transcode video 3.6.4.2 Transcode audio 3.6.4.3 Merge video + audio 3.6.4.4 Merge additional audio 3.6.4.5 Merge PSU's 3.6.4.6 Split 3.6.5 Node statuses 3.7 Webinterface 3.8 Some notes about internals 4 Command line options 4.1 dvdrip: main GUI program 4.1.1 Synopsis 4.1.2 Options 4.2 dvdrip-master: Cluster control daemon 4.2.1 Synopsis 4.2.2 Options 5 Important concepts 5.1 A dvd::rip project 5.2 A DVD title 5.3 DVD ripping modes 5.4 Transcode modes 5.4.1 Standard mode 5.4.2 Cluster mode 5.5 Chapter mode 5.6 Multiple audio tracks 5.7 Video bitrate calculation 5.8 Splitting 5.9 Volume rescaling / Audio filters 5.10 Subtitle formats 5.11 PSU core 5.12 Video codecs 5.13 Audio codecs 5.14 Container formats 5.14.1 AVI 5.14.2 OGG 5.14.3 MPEG 5.15 Filesystem layout 5.16 dvd::rip info file 6 FAQ 6.1 dvd::rip sometings hangs during transcoding 6.2 I have trouble with a specific DVD. What should I do? 6.3 dvd::rip can't read my DVD. I get strange error messages after ripping (movie ripped short, chapter is useless) and scrambled preview images / movies. 6.4 What about encrypted DVD's? 6.5 Why complains transcode about a missing VIDEO_TS.IFO file? 6.6 DivX encoding does not work 6.7 Is dvd::rip scriptable? 6.8 dvd::rip often rips the wrong audio channel 6.9 Why is the A/V sync of my transcoded NTSC AVI's so bad? 6.10 Why are the transcoded AVI files often bigger or smaller than adjusted? 6.11 My transcoded movie has colored artefacts 6.12 Is it possible to get a WAV file from my music DVD? 6.13 Can I use different dvd::rip versions in parallel? 6.14 What about the name? dvd::rip, dvdrip and Video-DVDRip. Which one is correct? 7 TRANSLATIONS 7.1 Portuguese