Re: Suse 10.3 and DVD::RIP

Ron Gibson wrote:
Well for some reason 10.2 wouldn't work and sometime back I installed
10.1, which I really didn't use much. Slackware is my preferred distro
but I need a front end to transcode (too complicated for me) and
DVD::RIP seems to be very popular.

Well... I recommend something even simpler (and faster)
(I used to use DVD::rip/transcode)

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile video.mpg dvd://1

(replace dvd://1 with whatever is appropriate, but that
works in general).

That's a single pass rip with excellent results....


If you have libdvdcss2 installed, that should give you
an unencrypted single file mpeg 2 file.

Then I use mencoder to take the original mpeg2 to other
formats.

For example, for my Cowon A2 or Archos 504:

mencoder video.mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcoded=mpeg4
-ffourcc DIVX -vf scale -zoom -xy 480 -vf-add
crop=480:272 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128
-o video.avi

Do you know what all tasks you are needing in doing
your encodings?
.

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