Newbie help: video conversion and DVD backups

[ulrich steffens]

On Sa, 2005-02-26 at 10:27 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
>bored2k wrote:
>> squareyes i suggest u mak on of those free websites pointing to what
>> help u are needing at the moment, so its EZ-ier to reply/help u
>> 
>> for example , i can help on video avi to dvd to whatever on debian
>> based distro :smile:
>that's great, bored2k.
>what do you recommend to make a backup from DVD layer 9 to simple DVD,
>eliminating some menus, bonuses and language tracks,
>and what would you use to make one from a DVD to mpeg4/divx ?
>
>kind regards     philippe
>
>
also a good way to do this is 'lxdvdrip'.
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip/

though it is a commandline tool, it has some kind of 'interface' (if you
enable it) it works like this:
it examines the dvd, asks, which titles you want, which audio tracks,
which subtitles, then rips and encodes, gives preview with mplayer, then
burns. the documentation was crappy last time i checked, but it does its
job very well (it uses transcode's parallell mode, so it means it
encodes 'on the fly' which means it rips&encodes a dvd in 20 minutes).

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- ulrich
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