On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:04, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Talk about speed, mplayers companion mencoder rips both data and audio from a > 7gig DVD in about 1hr15 mins leaving behing a 1.5 gig avi Frankly, I prefer to use RMVB nowadays compared to avi. It's much smaller and it packs more punch. eg: I feel that it's nicer. Mayb that's because I don't know how to encode it properly using mencoder. @700kbits, the quality I get is usually poorer compared to whet I can get using rmvb. > Now this took about 8 hours on my win box. both of my PCs are pretty big P4s > with 512 mb ddr ram. I won't contest to that, But since I don't know how to do it using Linux using rmvb, I've used the windows counterpart called "autorv9" which works great. (ps: I can usually get _very_ nice qualities of a 40min sitcom on DVD->RMVB at 220MB) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:16:50 up 7:04, 7 users, load average: 1.69, 1.71, 1.64