Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

I am not an expert about this.  I have used dvd:rip to copy a dvd DL
file (8+GB) to HDD.  After mounting the image as a loop device (see
man mount) I was able to burn the image to a disk with dvd9to5.  It
worked in that particular instance.

Alan

On 12/4/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:54 +0000, Mick wrote:
>
> > I noticed that there are at least three DVD rip apps in portage:
> >
> > media-video/dvdrip
> > media-video/acidrip
> > media-plugins/vdr-vdrrip
> >
> > How do they compare?
>
> I've never found a gui dvd ripper that I really liked.  I just transcode
> the vob files by hand.
>
> > Two more Qs:
> > Running mencoder seems to work in producing a smaller file, but it is a bit
> > choppy (drops frames).  Not sure what the correct options are, this is what I
> > have used:
> > =================================
> > mencoder vts_01_1.vob -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1 -alang en -oac
> > mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o movie.avi
> > =================================
>
> not sure about the frame dropping... did you try x264 as suggest
> earlier?
>
> here's the mencoder options I used to transcode some dv.  I've found
> with mencoder, the best way is to try lots of times, and see what works
> the best.  (Only try a minute at a time, or you'll end up waisting a lot
> of time :)
>
> mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf
> scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=4/3 -ofps 25 -o tape3/2006.06.30_14-57-41.mpeg tape3/2006.06.30_14-57-41.dv
>
> This was after some playing around to get to mpeg2 to burn later to dvd.
>
> > If I set it to pass=2 it fails with an error about xvid: you must specify one
> > or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 'quantizer' settings.
>
> dunno... try leaving of the "pass" option and see?
>
> HTH,
> --
> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
>
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