Newbie help: video conversion and DVD backups

[Thomas Beckett]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:04:16 +0100, ulrich steffens
<ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org> wrote:
> 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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I know we should encourage use of linux apps but ive heard that
dvdshrink works well under wine so if you are used to using that then
this may be the way to go...

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