Jeff Vian wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 08:39 +1200, Terry Kemp wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 11:59 +0200, Danie Thom wrote:
Hi Guys
I am quite new to Fedora, and I just want to find out 2 things about DVD
writing in FC...
Are there any applications available that will allow you to copy DVD's
(I used to work with CloneDVD on Windows XP)
I tried to watch a DVD with the Totem player. I got an error message
that complained about my URI.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
Danie
I use xine, and others use totem to watch DVDs.
You need to install libdvd* and dvd* (some may be overkill but it is
simple to do) so ---.
To copy and shrink DVDs to mpg that fits on a CD I use mencoder.
I even found the reference to that on this list some time back.
The below script with a little tweaking for sizes works for me all the
time. (it needs the libs I referenced above as well as lame to
decode/rip)
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mencoder dvd://1 -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr:vol=7 \
-ovc frameno -o frameno.avi
mencoder dvd://1 -sws 2 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=709:vpass=1 -vf \
crop=704:352:6:64,scale=1024:464 -o movie.avi
mencoder dvd://1 -sws 2 -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=709:vpass=2 -vf \
crop=704:352:6:64,scale=1024:464 -o movie.avi
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The first line rips the audio,
the 2nd and 3rd lines do a 2 pass rip of the video and merge in the
audio. The quality is excellent. Even though the name is .avi the
output is actually an mpg.
I like this method better than the other one posted. I like it as
mencoder is already on my system as I use it for other stuff.
Thanks for the hints.
I actually use mplayer to play my DVD's.
--
Robin Laing
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