Choggbuster

Choggbuster is a set of python scripts aimed at automated preprocessing of video DVDs for archival and filtering

Requirements

• python (obviously)
• libdvdcss (for decrypting copy protected DVDs)
• libdvdnav (for streaming the VOBs to disk)
• libdvdread (for reading decrypted data off of DVDs)
• ffmpeg (for demuxing)
• ccextractor (for extracting DVD Subtitles)

Setup (Windows)

1. Clone the repo
2. pip install cffi tqdm
3. Grab libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss from VLC and drop them next to dvd_ripper.py
4. python dvd_ripper.py F:\ or python dvd_ripper.py D:\path\to\DVD.ISO
5. this will create a folder out with a subfolder for the disc containing:
   • JSON file with metadata for the DVD title (XXXX.json where X is the title number)
   • demuxed streams (tXXX_aYYY_Z_0xAAA.{ext} where X is the title number, Y is the angle number Z is stream index and AAA is the stream id)
     • .m2v for video
     • .ac3 or .dtx for audio
     • .sub and .idx for subtitles
     • .srt for captions
   • .d2v file for use with AviSynth and Vapoursynth D2V reader
   • .info.json file containing video stream metadata (cropping information, interlaced/progressive frame count and aspect ration information)