<h3>Entries tagged "multimedia".</h3>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Video_DVD_reader_library___python_dvdvideo___nice_free_software.html">Video DVD reader library / python-dvdvideo - nice free software</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 21st March 2014
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>Keeping your DVD collection safe from scratches and curious
+children fingers while still having it available when you want to see a
+movie is not straight forward. My preferred method at the moment is
+to store a full copy of the ISO on a hard drive, and use VLC, Popcorn
+Hour or other useful players to view the resulting file. This way the
+subtitles and bonus material are still available and using the ISO is
+just like inserting the original DVD record in the DVD player.</p>
+
+<p>Earlier I used dd for taking security copies, but it do not handle
+DVDs giving read errors (which are quite a few of them). I've also
+tried using
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ripping_problematic_DVDs_using_dvdbackup_and_genisoimage.html">dvdbackup
+and genisoimage</a>, but these days I use the marvellous python library
+and program
+<a href="http://bblank.thinkmo.de/blog/new-software-python-dvdvideo">python-dvdvideo</a>
+written by Bastian Blank. It is
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-dvdvideo.html">in Debian
+already</a> and the binary package name is python3-dvdvideo. Instead
+of trying to read every block from the DVD, it parses the file
+structure and figure out which block on the DVD is actually in used,
+and only read those blocks from the DVD. This work surprisingly well,
+and I have been able to almost backup my entire DVD collection using
+this method.</p>
+
+<p>So far, python-dvdvideo have failed on between 10 and
+20 DVDs, which is a small fraction of my collection. The most common
+problem is
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720831">DVDs
+using UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 characters</a>, which according to
+Bastian is against the DVD specification (and seem to cause some
+players to fail too). A rarer problem is what seem to be inconsistent
+DVD structures, as the python library
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723079">claim
+there is a overlap between objects</a>. An equally rare problem claim
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741878">some
+value is out of range</a>. No idea what is going on there. I wish I
+knew enough about the DVD format to fix these, to ensure my movie
+collection will stay with me in the future.</p>
+
+<p>So, if you need to keep your DVDs safe, back them up using
+python-dvdvideo. :)</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title">
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html">IETF activity to standardise video codec</a>
<h2>Archive</h2>
<ul>
+<li>2014
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/01/">January (2)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/02/">February (3)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/03/">March (8)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/04/">April (6)</a></li>
+
+</ul></li>
+
<li>2013
<ul>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (7)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (7)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/11/">November (9)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/12/">December (3)</a></li>
+
</ul></li>
<li>2012
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin (8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem (12)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem (14)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bsa">bsa (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (83)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/chrpath">chrpath (2)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (98)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (138)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (146)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (9)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/dld">dld (15)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (10)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (210)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (245)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (12)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (11)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (12)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (8)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (11)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (37)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (40)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (8)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (18)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (8)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (9)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker (6)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker (7)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ltsp">ltsp (1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network (8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (234)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (26)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (153)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (245)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (8)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (162)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (11)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (44)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (46)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (65)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (72)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reactos">reactos (1)</a></li>
+
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (9)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (29)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (40)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (43)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (44)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (9)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (15)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (25)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (1)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (38)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (40)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (26)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (30)</a></li>
</ul>
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