Linux - Ripping Optical Media

Automatic Ripping Machine

• Automatic Ripping Machine | Headless | Blu-Ray/DVD/CD
• On GitHub

There are some potential issues with this...

• I've only been able to install it on Ubuntu so far... Not Mint. :(
• Ubuntu Desktop has an issue when installed on a Dell Server... It seems to dislike the onboard graphics & refuses to show the cursor.

Create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-cursoron.conf

Put in it the following content

#--makes mouse cursor re-appear
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Device0"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod" "uxa"
    Option      "SWCursor"    "on"
EndSection
#--

The keyword is uxa acceleration method here. Logout-login

Even after eventually getting it to install, there are difficulties.

• As installed, it flat out fails to do shit when you insert a disk...
  • Turns out, THIS is the issue
  • Fortunately, one more install step fixes it...
  • python3 -m pip install -U werkzeug==0.16.0
• ARM uses "windows media web service" which has been discontinued by Microsoft...

Things you'll need to do:

• MakeMKV needs an activation key
• You'll want an OMDb API key too.
• Create the folders where it'll be putting everything...
  • ~/logs
  • ~/media
  • ~/media/raw
  • ~/media/movies
  • ~/media/unidentified
  • /mnt/media

My progress getting it to work...

• So far, I've managed to get it to rip 1 movie...
  • Resulting in a file called title_t00.mkv... @ 640x480... (the movie)
  • And a file called title_t01.mkv... @ 629x392... (the extras as one big file)
  • At least it seems to have got the DVD title correct as it put it in ~/media/unidentified/SERENITY
• No luck at all with TV shows on DVD...
• Music CDs seem to work well...
  • BUT: You need to create /mnt/media & make it writeable by the user 'arm' as that's where it seems to want to put the files.