Can't get microphone to record and can't get handbrake to rip

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scharfshutze009

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I want to dub over some audio for the Movie Terminator at the Scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator knocks on the door of the wrong Sarah Conner and make him say Sinead O'Conner instead just to be funny. I have nothing against Sinead O'Conner, but I think this would be hilarious if I did it. Also, I want to do an impersonation of Matt Spatz and Todd Stones old morning radio show news intro from Rock 106.9 in Canton, OH. However, I can't get my microphone to record at all and yes I unmuted it. I even tried amplifying the sound by 50 db, but that didn't help. I'm using a creative X-Fi Titamium sound card and Steel Series headset as well as Ubuntu 14.4.2 LTS. Someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm using audacity as the sound mixing recording software.
 
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I'm having trouble ripping the Terminator Movie with handbrake too because either it can't rip it or it doesn't work at all like I think it does.
 
As for the first problem - sorry, don't know.


scharfshutze009 said:
I'm having trouble ripping the Terminator Movie with handbrake too because either it can't rip it or it doesn't work at all like I think it does.
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Guessing - are you trying to take out part of the film and save it somewhere else?

If so - check this out:

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If this is what you want, you need to enter the starting second and the ending second of the film.
 
Can't help with the mic problem but in the case of Handbrake, I think the issue is that you're trying to rip the movie. Unless I'm mistaken, Handbrake doesn't do any ripping. It's a front end for encoders. You'd need other software to do that actual ripping and removal of DRM for any normal commercial media.
 
SmokeRngs said:
Can't help with the mic problem but in the case of Handbrake, I think the issue is that you're trying to rip the movie. Unless I'm mistaken, Handbrake doesn't do any ripping. It's a front end for encoders. You'd need other software to do that actual ripping and removal of DRM for any normal commercial media.
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Thank you. That explains it all because when I googled DVD ripping software handbrake was one of the results, but clearly it isn't intended for ripping according to what you said and my experience with it. What software for Linux do I need to rip movie discs in Linux.
 
michalrz said:
As for the first problem - sorry, don't know.




Guessing - are you trying to take out part of the film and save it somewhere else?

If so - check this out:

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If this is what you want, you need to enter the starting second and the ending second of the film.
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Yea, but I have no idea, which part of the movie I want to cut out of the movie aka what time during the movie I want to cut and I need to rip it from Blu-Ray.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
Yea, but I have no idea, which part of the movie I want to cut out of the movie aka what time during the movie I want to cut and I need to rip it from Blu-Ray.
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Well seeing as a blu ray disc is filled with DRM good luck with that not all Blus rip that well, if you have no experience ripping blu rays I would just forget about it. Find a Xvid / x264 / x265 copy from your favorite torrent site... much easier and faster. With how easy it is to get such files why waste your time doing it yourself.

If you really insist on ripping 30GB+ blu rays yourself to mess with 20s of video for giggles... makemkv is the linux program you want I would think.
 
Handbrake did rip in the past, the decryption ability has been removed so that it doesn't conflict with copyright law.

It ~can~ be added back by just installing the decryption library, and it does a decent job of ripping. All Handbrake did was remove the library from their default installation.

https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/rip-dvd-blu-ray/linux-handbrake-copy-a-dvd-to-mp4-or-mkv-file/

For the microphone - got me there, would just have to play around with it. Could be the inputs are mismatched in the current driver (a lot of cards have that "autodetect" feature and I am not sure how your linux box would handle that).
 
Brian_B said:
Handbrake did rip in the past, the decryption ability has been removed so that it doesn't conflict with copyright law.

It ~can~ be added back by just installing the decryption library, and it does a decent job of ripping. All Handbrake did was remove the library from their default installation.

https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/rip-dvd-blu-ray/linux-handbrake-copy-a-dvd-to-mp4-or-mkv-file/

For the microphone - got me there, would just have to play around with it. Could be the inputs are mismatched in the current driver (a lot of cards have that "autodetect" feature and I am not sure how your linux box would handle that).
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That's the thing though Ubuntu Linux doesn't have autodetect though, but it doesn't have default. However, it still not recording with the input set as default and when I try X-Fi front whatever that just locks up the computer temporarily. I know sometimes Linux either isn't perfect or doesn't seem perfect though, but this is just one of those things I'm having trouble figuring out.
 
Where do you have the mic plugged in? In the card or in your front panel connector? If in the card double check that it is actually in the MIC port rather than aux in or one of the speaker outs. If in the FP connector, is the connector plugged into the sound card or motherboard? If in the motherboard you'll have to use the on-board audio software -or- remove the connector from the motherboard and plug it into the sound card. Have you tried a different mic?
 
The X-fi has configurable ports so you need to make sure the port you're using is actually configured for microphone use.
 
I've used Handbrake under Linux, having said that MakeMKV is easier as you don't have to anything but install the beta for free.

The thing that's got me here is the fact that it's really not that hard at all to figure out just what needs to be done to get Handbrake to rip DVD's - It's literally the first result of a Google search and very easy to do?

You need to install libdvdcss to decrypt the content protection and there are some codecs that need to be installed, see here:

https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/rip-dvd-blu-ray/linux-handbrake-copy-a-dvd-to-mp4-or-mkv-file/

Microphone also working fine here on an X-Fi, all I had to do was plug it into the white 'optical out/microphone' port and select the right device in sound preferences. Having said that gain is quite low, you may need a mic with some form of preamp for it to be effective, having said that my mic is a cheap piece of garbage.

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B00nie said:
DVD quality is so bad that I wouldn't even bother ripping them anymore. BD and ultra-hd is where it's at.
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The only way I'll even consider watching a DVD rip now is on my tablet in bed, and even then I'm gritting my teeth. There's no way a DVD rip is making it's way anywhere near my hometheater.
 
ChadD said:
Well seeing as a blu ray disc is filled with DRM good luck with that not all Blus rip that well, if you have no experience ripping blu rays I would just forget about it. Find a Xvid / x264 / x265 copy from your favorite torrent site... much easier and faster. With how easy it is to get such files why waste your time doing it yourself.

If you really insist on ripping 30GB+ blu rays yourself to mess with 20s of video for giggles... makemkv is the linux program you want I would think.
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Is it available as a repository because I tried to install it by using the command sudo apt-get install makemkv, but it didn't work.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
Is it available as a repository because I tried to install it by using the command sudo apt-get install makemkv, but it didn't work.
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Nevermind because I found it on google and it is only available for Windows or Mac, which is a problem because the computer I want to use it on won't boot to Windows and I only have one working Mac. Having only one working Mac isn't that much of a problem, but not having a working Windows Computer is because the Windows computers I own back at my apartment won't mount my external hard drive for some reason and they don't have blu-ray drives anyway, but I do have an external blu-ray drive though. As for my working Mac that's not really a problem other than I have no speakers for it, but I could just disconnect my heatset for My dual boot non-working Windows/working Linux machine.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
Is it available as a repository because I tried to install it by using the command sudo apt-get install makemkv, but it didn't work.
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I really don't know if its in any ubuntu repos, I don't believe so however. I run arch and there is someone maintaining it in the AUR.

For Debian based distros the makemkv people seem to have posted a how to for installing dependencies and compiling the pacakge.

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224
 
1) Use MakeMKV to rip the specific chapter of the Blu-ray to an MKV file (you don't need the whole damned movie since you're focusing on just the one single scene that's a few seconds long.

2) Feed that single chapter to HandBrake and then you can narrow it down using the ability to encode from time point A (start of the scene) to time point B (end) or you can even specify exact frames (start-end) if you want it that granular. Set your encoding settings, choose the container (MKV or MP4) and let 'er encode.

3) End up with exactly what you're looking for inside either type of container, you could then turn that into a WebM or whatever else after the fact just by altering the container (you can rename a file that's called *.mp4 as *.webm and it'll still play on most media players just fine - what matters is whether or not the media player can read the container since the streams are pretty standard stuff nowadays for audio and video).

4) Use mkvtoolnix to demux aka separate the audio and video tracks, save the audio track out, use Audacity or some other sound editor to edit the audio track and overwrite the specific section with the sound byte you want in its place, save the file in original format, use mkvtoolnix to remux the new audio stream + original video stream back into an MKV or MP4 container.

That's pretty much it.
 
Ok I have makemv for Mac now and it successfully ripped the Blu-ray of Terminator into many small files. I successfully installed makemkv for Linux too, but already have the movie ripped to my mac. Therefore, maybe all I need to do is copy the file over to my Linux computer over the network or with flash or optical media or external hd.
 
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Tiberian said:
1) Use MakeMKV to rip the specific chapter of the Blu-ray to an MKV file (you don't need the whole damned movie since you're focusing on just the one single scene that's a few seconds long.

2) Feed that single chapter to HandBrake and then you can narrow it down using the ability to encode from time point A (start of the scene) to time point B (end) or you can even specify exact frames (start-end) if you want it that granular. Set your encoding settings, choose the container (MKV or MP4) and let 'er encode.

3) End up with exactly what you're looking for inside either type of container, you could then turn that into a WebM or whatever else after the fact just by altering the container (you can rename a file that's called *.mp4 as *.webm and it'll still play on most media players just fine - what matters is whether or not the media player can read the container since the streams are pretty standard stuff nowadays for audio and video).

4) Use mkvtoolnix to demux aka separate the audio and video tracks, save the audio track out, use Audacity or some other sound editor to edit the audio track and overwrite the specific section with the sound byte you want in its place, save the file in original format, use mkvtoolnix to remux the new audio stream + original video stream back into an MKV or MP4 container.

That's pretty much it.
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Too bad Videos can't open the file in Ubuntu, but Quicktime can on the Mac.
 
I couldn't copy the file from the Mac to my external hd because it keep saying read only when I tried to copy it in command line, since when I tried to copy it in the GUI the paste option just wasn't there.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
I couldn't copy the file from the Mac to my external hd because it keep saying read only when I tried to copy it in command line, since when I tried to copy it in the GUI the paste option just wasn't there.
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Probably because it's formatted as NTFS.
 
Okay I've tried every video player Ubuntu suggest when clicking search for other apps to play the video, but none of them witll play it. Therefore, how do you play a clpi video in Ubuntu? I've tired VLC, but it doesn't work.
 
I could do it all on my Mac, but I probably need Adobe Premiere or Final Cut and I can't afford either or those right now. I just cancelled Adobe Creative Cloud in the Spring of 2017.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
I could do it all on my Mac, but I probably need Adobe Premiere or Final Cut and I can't afford either or those right now. I just cancelled Adobe Creative Cloud in the Spring of 2017.
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You played a clpi file on your Mac? Why did you rip the file to clpi?
 
BulletDust said:
You played a clpi file on your Mac? Why did you rip the file to clpi?
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No on my Mac the file is using a .mkfs extension. I don't know how or why I ripped it to clpi on my Linux machine. The thing is that the video plays on my Mac with a .mkfs using Quicktime, but won't play at all on my Linux machine.
 
I can't get handbrake to convert the video to MP4 or clip the video either because start is grayed out and I don't know what to do because it's not obvious.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
I can't get handbrake to convert the video to MP4 or clip the video either because start is grayed out and I don't know what to do because it's not obvious.
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There is something that IS obvious however. But you don't listen :D
 
scharfshutze009 said:
I can't get handbrake to convert the video to MP4 or clip the video either because start is grayed out and I don't know what to do because it's not obvious.
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But....You're not using Handbrake on the Mac, you're using MakeMKV?!

Use MakeMKV on the Ubuntu machine if you can't figure out Handbrake? Besides, I've told you how to get Handbrake working. :confused:

Handbrake under Linux:

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MakeMKV under Linux:

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BulletDust said:
But....You're not using Handbrake on the Mac, you're using MakeMKV?!

Use MakeMKV on the Ubuntu machine if you can't figure out Handbrake? Besides, I've told you how to get Handbrake working. :confused:

Handbrake under Linux:

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MakeMKV under Linux:

tlXLe3th.png
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Thanks that's what I needed to know and what didn't seem obvious or for some reason couldn't understand.
 
BulletDust said:
But....You're not using Handbrake on the Mac, you're using MakeMKV?!

Use MakeMKV on the Ubuntu machine if you can't figure out Handbrake? Besides, I've told you how to get Handbrake working. :confused:

Handbrake under Linux:

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MakeMKV under Linux:

tlXLe3th.png
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Handbrake doesn't have or show a preset list like yours for me, but I think I figured it out.
 
I got the video converted to MP4 with handbrake and I realized it was set to normal in the presets for handbrake along the rightside all along, so the preset is there in my handbrake too. However, how do I trim the video because openshot won't play it in the preview wndow, so I don't thnk it can read the MP4 video even if it should.
 
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