Re: Convert dvd to mpeg4
- From: Allen Kistler <ackistler@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:09:01 -0500
A Watcher wrote:
I have some dvds that I burned with my standalone dvd burner. I would like to extract portions of the video and create an mpeg4 file from them. What linux SW would you recommend for this?
I have PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu installed on my PC and I have downloaded most of the things you need to read dvds and cds.
Different folks will probably have different opinions, but I'd use ffmpeg. ffmpeg will read plaintext VOBs and create mp4s just fine. Since you created the DVDs in the first place, I doubt you encrypted them or coded them for any region, so you should be okay. ffmpeg has lots of switches, though. Don't be afraid. They're your friends. For what you want to do, you don't need very many of them anyway.
The only thing about which I'd warn you is that transcoding from mpeg2 to mpeg4 probably isn't going to get you a smaller file if you want to keep the same video quality. mp4 is about twice as good as mp2 at compressing raw video (my knowledge there comes from satellite video feeds, not Linux), but I haven't found it to be nearly as good at recompressing processed video. But then, maybe I haven't met enough of my friends, the switches.
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