Re: [gentoo-amd64] Convert multiple vob files to mp4

[Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 13:41, Michael Weyershäuser wrote:
> Ian McCulloch wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Stear wrote:
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>
> There are a few relatively easy to use GUI Tools around (ogmrip comes to
> mind), but they are somewhat limited in options. One tool that has quite
> a few options (but therefor requires some knowledge and reading on your
> end) is dvdrip. All of these are best used for encoding to xvid.
> But there is a new star on the codec horizon, and that's h264. Takes a
> lot of CPU cycles to encode (10-12h on an opteron 148 for a 2h movie
> with high quality settings here), takes more CPU power than xvid to
> decode (Though that shouldn't be as bad as encoding) but gives you the
> same quality as xvid with half the bitrate. The best way to encode this
> is with mencoder, their homepage has some good information and the
> mplayer man page has the rest. Check
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html chapter 14 and following.
Thanks very much for this info, I am at the moment converting one dvd into 
mpeg4 using dvrip.  It is taking a long time.
I will check out the memcoder homepage.
Thanks again
Paul
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