Re: SUSE 10: best way to create an AVI file (DivX) from a DVD ? (post-post question on time)



Christos:
this seems to work well, the best so far.

But I have a DVD with sound track, and subtitles in 3 languages... and just
do not get any subtitles... and just one language!

Is it any way that you may know, to create the avi file, with proper
selection?

Thanks.
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Christos Gourdoupis wrote:

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:18:42 -0700, AnonymousFC4 <afc4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On friday Friday 07 April 2006 19:07:48 I posted and I/we got some very
good postings.
QUESTION:
k3b takes about 24 hours (3Gz Athlon, 512MB RAM), is that normal to
takes
so much time to rip a DVD into a divx/MP4 file?

I have been experimenting quite a bit with ripping in linux and I can tell
you that it greatly depends on what you want to do with the ripped file.
For my archiving purposes I have found this to work best so far:

mencoder -vf hqdn3d=2:1:2 \
-ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vqscale=3:autoaspect:keyint=250:mbd=1:v4mv \
-oac copy \
dvd://1 -o 1.avi

Pros:
1. Easy. Why spend half an hour clicking around in gui programs, when you
have the console? :)
2. Perfect video and audio quality
3. Good compression
4. Fast. About 25fps with an Athlon64 3000+, it means it will take 2 hours
for a 2 hour video.

Cons:
1. You don't have any control on file size. But do you need any?


I am ready to hear objections about using constant quantizer, but I warn
you I have strong arguments :)

.



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