Posted by SuperM on 04/29/07 01:28

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:40:53 -0700, Wendell III <wendell.iii@gmail.com>
Gave us:

>Hi all,
>
>I am looking for a way to make my headless Linux box auto-detect
>DVD-video upon insert into a drive, proceed with a ripping process, and
>then an H.264 encoding process. Basically, I'm looking for a solution
>where I have to do nothing but insert the disc.

Since not all DVDs have the same set-up for menus and the main feature
file name... good luck with that.

You'll get mixed results using qualifiers like "the largest file" and
such.

Jeez, dude, it can't be that hard to make a few mouse clics, ya wuss.
>
>Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Yeah. Get less lazy or wait till such a thing as DVD file set-ups are
all the same, which they are not, nor will ever likely be.

> Obivously the latter parts are
>easier if I can figure out the former...

If it was so easy, why can't *YOU* figure it out?
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