On Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:42, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 18:42 +0300, Heikki Pesonen wrote: > > Dear gentlemen and ladies! Let me repeat what my problem is, it is not > > how to listen or look at the content of the DVD, instead of that > > On 7/24/06, Heikki Pesonen <fossiili@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I wanted to convert the VOB-files to format which my > > Windows-program Pinacle Studio could read or > > find Linux-programs which I could install with my newbie > > skills to Fedora Core 5 able to edit my movies and to make a > > video CD or DVD which I could send to my sister even having an > > old DVD-player box and on old TV. > > It's possible that mencoder would be able to convert your VOB files over > to an acceptable format. Mencoder is part of the Mplayer toolbox. Not only possible. I did it on several occasions so far, and can say that mplayer suite (including mencoder) is very powerful, at least for my taste. The drawback is that it isn't point&click, you are required to read a nontrivial amount of docs and man pages in order to set up all the switches the way you need. Also, mencoder can do some basic filtering and processing of the image during the conversion. Things like resizing, flipping, cropping, adding sound etc. So you do not need to use Pinacle if all you wish to do is to convert the movie from 16:9 to 4:3, for example. However, if you need to cut&paste the movie or something more complicated, then... I can also suggest using Sony Vegas instead of Pinacle. Not as powerful, but *much* easier to use. At least for me. > But the first thing you need to > do is make sure your VOB files are not encrypted. Sorry for hijacking the thread, but could anyone explain me the concept of enryption of a movie (or any multimedia, in general). I mean, why is that useful? If I can watch the movie using the original dvd, ie if some sequence of images can be displayed on my screen, then it is in principle always possible to put that data not to the screen, but to a, say, file, and reprocess it later. How to do it is another story, but in principle it has to be possible. (The Linux philosophy -- everything is a stream of bytes...). So why encrypt the data if it is intended for the end-user to see unencrypted? I mean, you can't stop him from copying it if he is allowed to see it... Best regards, :-) Marko
