From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Grx4h-0005io-9C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:44:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB6Df51Y004735; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:41:05 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB6Df4po013889 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:41:04 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Dec 2006 13:41:04 -0000 Received: from p54AE7166.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.1.19]) [84.174.113.102] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 06 Dec 2006 14:41:04 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1899351 Message-ID: <4576C86D.5020902@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:41:01 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Weyersh=E4user?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Convert multiple vob files to mp4 References: <200612060803.08944.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC96A1E69D19FEE1E0C4E1F75" X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: d3c9ed5c-e8fd-405d-997d-e1d14cbdc8bb X-Archives-Hash: d4f7d2038571e3b846d48859162f940c This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC96A1E69D19FEE1E0C4E1F75 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ian McCulloch wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Stear wrote: >=20 >> Hi, >> Can anybody tell me the best way to convert multiple vob files into on= e mp4=20 >> file. I want to convert these files so that they take up less space wh= ilst=20 >> still maintaining a reasonable level of quality. >> Any suggestions? >=20 > Isn't that completely off-topic for this list? If he wants to encode it on an AMD64 system: no, not completely ;) >=20 > Anyway, I would problably use mencoder. And read=20 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup_a_DVD > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_a_DVD:Encode >=20 > These are aimed at making a backup of an existing DVD, but it also=20 > covers re-encoding at a different bitrate. Simply reencoding and creating a DVD at a lower bitrate isn't the best idea since MPEG2 isn't the most efficient codec around. You either won't save that much space or will lose quality pretty soon. 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.= --------------enigC96A1E69D19FEE1E0C4E1F75 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFdshu6q4f+IV6B/wRCOjUAJ9EOrtV34IDY8dKdkudhnzw0UtCcACfTW+j h672fV9QxVHELp4hqKG7iiU= =7UFX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC96A1E69D19FEE1E0C4E1F75-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list