Rip a dvd with HandbrakeCLI on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for the Sony PS3 (mpeg4 / h.264)

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:45:18 +0000

After much trial and error, I chose HandbrakeCLI for ripping a dvd to a h.264 mpeg4 file that I can play on my Sony Playstation 3 console. Please note that HandBrake does quite well on live action video but not so good on animation.

% sudo aptitude install build-essential
% sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev jam yasm
% wget http://handbrake.fr/rotation.php?file=HandBrake-0.9.2.tar.gz
% tar zxvf HandBrake-0.9.2.tar.gz
% cd HandBrake
% ./configure
% jam
% cp HandBrakeCLI ../bin # to copy the binary into the user’s bin dir

We need yasm installed to pick up any cpu extensions that our cpu supports. For example: MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 3DNow!

Now that we have a working HandBrakeCLI binary built for our system (works for 32bit or 64bit depending on which system we built it on).

I wrote a very simple script that will rip the dvd (legal dvd rip btw) into a mp4 file, copy it to the media-server which will be picked up automatically by mediatomb.

make_ps3_hb.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# make_ps3_hb.sh [genre]

nice -n 15 ~/bin/HandBrakeCLI -i /dev/dvd -e x264 -b 1200 -B 160 -R 48 -E faac -f mp4 -P=16 -x level=41:subme=5:me=umh -T -2 -d -7 -8 -O –crop -m -N eng -o "$1"

if [ -f "$1" ]
then
if [ $2 ]
then
echo copying $1 to media-server /home/jason/Videos/$2
scp "$1" "jason@media-server:/home/jason/Videos/$2/$1" && rm -f "$1"
else
echo copying $1 to media-server /home/jason/Videos
scp "$1" "jason@media-server:/home/jason/Videos/$1" && rm -f "$1"
fi
fivideo_name>

Handbrake documentation is available on the Handbrake wiki website.

UPDATE: If you’re looking for a GUI front end for HandBrakeCLI on Linux, check out RippedWire by th3rmite.

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Rip a dvd with HandbrakeCLI on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for the Sony PS3 (mpeg4 / h.264)