Re: DVD Writing

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)
--------------------------------------------------------
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
-----------------------------------------------------------------

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.

Thanks for the hints.

I actually use mplayer to play my DVD's.

--
Robin Laing
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