Re: Suse 10.3 and DVD::RIP

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:03:55 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:

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

I agree this is ultimately the fastest and best way as these things are
just front ends to command line tools.

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.

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?

Here's where it gets complicated. I'm collecting avi's of a number of
things like TV series etc via bittorrent. In general I need to know a
bit about the source file to encode, transcode and master the source
file.

Problem is the source files method of creation and parameters are often
not known so I need an interrogatory of the source file.

At the same time I've only being doing this about 6 months and there is
a lot to learn. I'm producing some quality stuff using W2K software but
you know I hate to reboot and besides the OS does not multitask nearly
as well.

I've had glitches like one software app won't write a DVD-R properly but
will a DVD+R.

So I needed to skip all the overall gnome/different distro crap/ and
get right on being able to encode and analyze my input/output
parameters' results so as to be able to attack the problem efficiently
and quickly.

As you know I'm sure it generally takes 1 minute of encoding for 1
minute of video file so a lot of failed 90 minute sessions get real
depressing.

So...Just like you can examine the output of a KDE log file to see what
comman line syntax they used to active it's back end I hope to be able
to learn the same with the command line for these video tasks.

Or heck maybe I'll fall in love with DVD::RIP. I'm ready to go tomorrow
on a test project. I have mplayer and all the other helper apps installed
plus my Nvidia drivers and the desktop configured.

Hey, that last paragraph there, that went real smooth for the Suse part
of it all. Getting it to install lilo in the root was a little tricky
and still can't find a rpm for my favorite CLI editor jed. Kate will do
for now under X.

For right now it's all good considering I got basic Suse installed from
CD, finished the CD stuff about 9PM last night.


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