On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:48 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:42, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > 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? It's useful only from the standpoint of the liberal democratic monarchy in Hollywood, who don't want you copying their stuff even if you are doing your own backups, which you have the right to do under regular copyright law. (The topic has been decryption of already encrypted vob's, not vice versa) > > 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 Nobody is arguing that vob's need to be encrypted in the user's environment. In fact if anything it's been the opposite. LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
