ANDREW's Not a DVD Ripping and Encoding Wizard, but a command-line interface that simplifies the use of some applications to create AVI, Matroska, MP4 or OGM files from DVDs.
ANDREW is free software, released under GNU General Public License.
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ANDREW's Not a DVD Ripping and Encoding Wizard, but a command-line interface that simplifies the use of some applications to create AVI, Matroska, MP4 or OGM files from DVDs. ANDREW is free software, released under GNU General Public License. |
| 2009.03.25 | Released version 1.3.4: added MP4 container support and iPod compatibility! |
| 2009.02.05 | Released version 1.3.3: added batch mode, constant quality encoding method and more! Many thanks to Per for his suggestions and testing |
| 2009.02.14 | Released version 1.3.2: added x264 video encoding and fixed some bugs! |
| ANDREW | runs in interactive or batch mode |
| works on-the-fly or ripping DVDs to hard drive | |
| handles progressive, telecine and interlaced NTSC and PAL formats | |
| controls needed disk space availability | |
| encodes an entire title or few chapters only | |
| selects multiple audio and subtitle tracks by preferences or in full manual mode | |
| supports AVI, Matroska, MP4 and OGM containers | |
| splits movies in several files or encodes them by target size or video bit rate | |
| uses two-pass or constant quality MPEG-4 ASP or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding | |
| crops and scales the video automatically | |
| uses AAC, MP3 or Vorbis audio encoding and AC-3 extraction | |
| uses hard or soft encoding for subtitles from VobSub and SRT files | |
| speaks English, Italian and Spanish |
ANDREW creates files that can contain particular types of tracks (V), some of which only using optional dependencies (V):
| FMP4 Video | XviD Video | x264 Video | AAC Audio | AC-3 Audio | MP3 Audio | Vorbis Audio | Hard Subtitles | Soft Subtitles | Chapter Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVI container | V | V | V | X | V | V | X | V | X | X |
| Matroska container | V | V | V | X | V | X | V | V | V | V |
| MP4 container | V | V | V | V | X | X | X | V | V | X |
| OGM container | V | V | V | X | V | X | V | V | X | V |
ANDREW should work with any GNU/Linux or *nix operating system where you can install and execute the following software (tested on a x86 running Ubuntu 8.10):
| Program | Tested version | Minimum version |
|---|---|---|
| Required (but not checked) | ||
| GNU BASH | 3.2.39(1)-release | 2.03-alpha |
| GNU Coreutils | 6.10 | |
| GNU gettext | 0.17 | |
| GNU grep | 2.5.3 | |
| GNU iconv | 2.8.90 | |
| GNU sed | 4.1.5 | |
| less | 418 | |
| Ncurses | 5.6.20071124 | |
| Required (and checked) | ||
| GNU bc | 1.06.94 | |
| lsdvd | 0.16 | 0.10 |
| MEncoder | 1.0rc2-4.3.2 | 1.0pre8 |
| MPlayer | 1.0rc2-4.3.2 | 1.0pre8 |
| mkvmerge | 2.6.0 | 0.97 |
| mkvextract | 2.6.0 | 0.97 |
| OggEnc | 1.2.0 | |
| Optional | ||
| avimerge | 1.0.2 | |
| FAAC | 1.26.1 | |
| LAME | 3.98 | |
| MEncoder + x264 | 0.svn20080408 | |
| MEncoder + XviD | 1.1.2 | |
| MP4Box | 0.4.4 | |
| ogmmerge | 1.5 | 1.41 |
| vobcopy | 1.1.0 | |
ANDREW package includes localised man pages and localisation files.
See NEWS and
ChangeLog
to know all the changes made to ANDREW.
Extract the file you have downloaded typing tar -jxvf andrew-1.3.4.tar.bz2 in a terminal window and install ANDREW typing cd andrew-1.3.4 && ./configure && make and then make install as root (or sudo make install, if root account is disabled on your system). Alternatively, you can edit the first line of andrew.in.sh script, rename the file and move it wherever you like, giving up localised versions of ANDREW and its man pages.
Invoke ANDREW typing andrew.sh (read the man page to see the available options, type man andrew). If there isn't one, ANDREW will create a configuration file, will wait for you to make changes in it and then, in interactive mode, will ask you some questions before encoding your movie.
You can play the files created by ANDREW using the following free software:
| OS | Player | |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Media Player Classic + Combined Community Codec Pack | |
| VLC media player | ||
| Windows Media Player + Combined Community Codec Pack | ||
| Other | MPlayer | |
| VLC media player | ||
| xine |
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