[PLUG] Editing a video DVD

[Bill Barry]

## copy the dvd to hard disk
mkdir something
cd something
dvdbackup -M

## edit vob file with gopchop http://outflux.net/unix/software/gopchop/




On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>wrote:
>> > What is the simplest way to use Linux tools to take a non-copy-
>> > protected video DVD apart, remove the first 9.5 minutes of the
>> > content, and make a new DVD with the same menus, etc?
>
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:23:35PM -0700, Patrick J. Timlick wrote:
>> I THINK k9copy MIGHT work.
>>
>> I needed something to quickly copy a DVD to hard drive, k9copy did the job.
>>  It has a wizard where you specify the parts you want to copy. I just
>> copied everything, you might be able to just get by with that.  So, Are you
>> feeling lucky Kieth?
>
> Not very lucky.  I can do the same with K3B.  No, I want to chop off
> the front of one of the video segments, start the modified DVD with
> the rest of that same segment, keep the metadata,  and keep the
> simple-but-better-than-I-can-design menu structure of the disk.
> That sounds hard to do without a lot of knowledge of DVD structure
> or some capable tools that will lead me through the process.
>
> I downloaded the k9copy source, did not find any documentation, and
> the author is no longer supports the tool.  I'll keep looking, thanks!
>
> Keith
>
> P.S. Indeed,  I may just pay the original author of the disk $$$ to
> rebuild it for me.  The problem is he doesn't answer phone or email.
>
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I have experience in backing up DVD's, but not too much in the reverse
of creating DVD's, that said, here is one process that could get your
job done.

Essentially you  follow the instructions in the example at the bottom
of this post
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77834/how-to-rip-a-scratched-dvd-video-a-cdparanoia-for-dvds

but after doing the dvdbackup -m you need to edit the vob file to
remove the unwanted parts.
For that you can use a utility called gopchop
http://gopchop.sourceforge.net/
for which there exists a Debian package, but I don't know about Redhat.

If this does not work, use any mpeg2 video editor.
Then continue the steps in the example to put the DVD back together.

Bill