Wazzuf Ripper is a shell script (bash) to rip various media as DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) and BD (Blu-ray Disc) to .mkv file(s) (Matroska container).

It is a free software, GPLv3 licensed.

aacskeydb

AACS keys database downloader: allow encrypted Blu-ray Discs playing through libaacs.
Based on update-flashplugin-nonfree script.

• Ubuntu/Debian: Use Wazzuf Ripper repository or download latest deb package.
• Source code available on Github (GPL v2).

omdb-cli

Command line tool to retrieve OMDb informations.

• Ubuntu/Debian: Use Wazzuf Ripper repository or download latest deb package.
• Arch Linux: Use AUR package.
• Source code available on Github (LGPL v3).

bdchapters

Command Line Chapter Extractor for Blu-ray Disc.
bdchapters is a basic tool to generate XML based chapter format from mpls files (Blu-Ray Disc playlist format).

• Ubuntu/Debian: Use Wazzuf Ripper repository or download latest deb package.
• Arch Linux: Use AUR package.
• Source code available on Github (GPL v3).

ccextractor

A fast closed captions extractor for MPEG files.

• Ubuntu/Debian: unknown
• Arch Linux: Use ccextractor AUR package.
• ccextractor.org homepage.
• Source code available on Github (GPL v2).

tsmuxer/tsmuxer-gui

tsMuxeR is a Transport Stream muxer/demuxer.
tsmuxer (CLI) is the only package required by Wazzuf Ripper (> 5.3) for automatic BD subtitles (PGS) extraction. However, the GUI version (tsmuxer-gui) is also packaged.

• Ubuntu/Debian: Use Wazzuf Ripper repository (v1.10.6-14). (Since Trusty/Jessie only).
• Arch Linux: Use tsmuxer-ng-cli-bin AUR package.
• iNetwork Optix homepage (Freeware).

Package name: wazzuf-ripper

Arch Linux

AUR package

Ubuntu

Available (unsigned) repositories : precise trusty

(replace CODENAME)

deb [trusted=yes] http://wazzuf-ripper.lokizone.net/ubuntu/ CODENAME main
# deb-src [trusted=yes] http://wazzuf-ripper.lokizone.net/ubuntu/ CODENAME main

Debian

Using Ubuntu repository :

• Jessie: with deb-multimedia.org repository.
• Wheezy: with deb-multimedia.org repository.
• Squeeze: with squeeze-backports (mencoder, libav-tools,...) and deb-multimedia.org (libdvdcss2, lame,...) repositories + avconv, Python 2.7,...

• DVD: both physical disc and iso image
• BD: both physical disc and m2ts file (preferably with associated mpls/clpi files)
• Video tracks: H.264 VC-1 MPEG-2
• Audio tracks: DTS/DTS-HD AC3(Dolby Digital) THD(Dolby TrueHD) PCM/Bluray PCM
• Subtitles tracks: .idx/.sub(DVD VobSub) .sup(PGS)
• External subtitles: .srt .idx/.sub .sup
• Episodes list (TV shows)
• Image attachment: .jpg or .png
• IMdb id

• Container: Matroska only (.mkv)
• Video codec: Xvid h264 DUMP(original video track) DUMP_CROP(dump with crop)
• Video cropping
• Video scaling (example:720p)
• Audio codec: AC3 MP3(CBR/VBR) Vorbis Opus(experimental) DUMP(original audio track)
• Subtitles
• Chapters: DVD + BD
• Cover art: image + thumbnail
• .nfo file
• mkv target size option (CD, DVD or bytes number)

• IMdb id search with original title only.
• mkv target size option is approximate for h264 encoding.
• No BD subtitles (PGS) conversion. You can use: BDSup2Sub.

Needed tools (dependencies)

• mplayer/mencoder
• mkvmerge (mkvtoolnix)
• nice (coreutils) → shoud be already installed
• ionice (util-linux) →shoud be already installed
• mediainfo → source and media files informations

Possibly used tools

• libx264 → h264 video encoding
• libxvid → Xvid video encoding
• cvlc (vlc) → video dumping + video dumping with crop
• lame → MP3 audio encoding
• oggenc (vorbis-tools) → Ogg Vorbis audio encoding
• opusenc (opus-tools) → Opus audio encoding
• avconv (libav-tools) or ffmpeg depending of used distro → DTS to AC3 audio encoding, Bluray PCM extracting,...
• dvdxchap (ogmtools) → DVD/ISO_DVD chapters
• lsdvd → DVD/ISO_DVD informations
• 7z (p7zip-full) → ISO_DVD structure informations
• convert (imagemagick) → image attachment
• genisoimage → copy DVD to iso file

Wazzuf Ripper can be used directly in a terminal or launched with a basic graphical interface (since v4/v5).

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

1. Launch Wazzuf Conf Generator (menu) or wazzuf-conf-generator to generate a configuration file for Wazzuf Ripper. Here are some Screenshots.
2. Rename the wazzuf-ripper.conf.tmp generated file to wazzuf-ripper.conf (and make changes you want/need).
3. Launch Wazzuf Ripper (menu) or wazzuf-ripper GUI to start ripping. Here are some Screenshots.

Command Line Interface (CLI)

1. Fill the ~/wazzuf-ripper/wazzuf-ripper.conf configuration file with at least Media Source (DVD,ISO,BD,M2TS), Video Type (MOVIE,SHOW,MUSIC) and Main Title.
   You'll find an example file in /usr/share/doc/wazzuf-ripper/wazzuf-ripper.conf
2. Running wazzuf-pre-ripper will help you listing tracks and automatically detecting best video crop, searching for IMdb id, and even download poster image.
3. Fill the wazzuf-ripper.conf file with all your media source informations and wanted codecs parameters.
4. Usage:
   wazzuf-ripper [ Video Codec ] [ Audio 1 Codec ] [ Audio 2 Codec ]
   Example for video xvid encoding, first audio track MP3 encoding, and second audio track Vorbis encoding:
   wazzuf-ripper xvid MP3 vorbis

See manpages:

• wazzuf-ripper(1)
• wazzuf-ripper.conf(4)
• wazzuf-ripper-global.conf(4)
• wazzuf-pre-ripper(1)
• wazzuf-external-tools-install(1)