Eunektes

This program copies all streams from a DVD and muxes them into an mkv container. You can specify titles/chapters also. This results in a DVD quality, playable backup with all audio/subtitles included. Naturally, though it's fast and the quality is unchanged, the files are still quite huge, but the way storage devices have been increasing in capacity in recent years this is beginning to become a sane idea :)

Apart from PyKDE, it also depends on mplayer, mencoder, vobcopy (only if you want to copy to disk first), kdesu (only in absence of a disc automounter (that mounts to /media/LABEL)), lsdvd (only for previewing title/chapter lengths), mkvmerge (from mkvtoolnix), and dvdxchap(from ogmtools).

This program generally doesn't use much CPU, but it can eat up a lot of IO. To counter this, I recommend running with "ionice -c 2 -n 7" if you want balanced performance, or - to really slow it down - you could use "ionice -c 3" - though it will probably take a lot longer that way.

1.3.2-
- various fixes
- video re-encode feature (for fixing problematic streams)
1.3.1-
- various small fixes
1.3-
- dependency checking
- re-encode broken video
- fail more gracefully most of the time
- corrected the logging directory
- many other changes and fixes
- probably added plenty of bugs... We'll see
1.2
- made public