On 07/08/2010 07:02 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 18:42 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: >> On 07/08/2010 06:21 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> I have a DVD structure (VIDEO_TS etc. etc.) on my hard disk and would >>> like to convert the main feature to an AVI file, i.e. basically what >>> rippers do but without the physical DVD. I know I can use ffmpeg or >>> transcode to convert individual VOB files, but this seems error prone >>> (e.g. how do I know I got all of the main feature?). Does anyone have a >>> script for this sort of thing? Unfortunately K3B is no good as it >>> insists on there being a physical DVD to rip from. >>> >>> poc >>> >> >> you can try something like: >> >> ffmpeg -i VTS_01_1.vob -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 800 -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec >> mp3 -ab 128 VTS_01_1.avi > > Thanks, but as I said I know I can convert individual VOB files. The > issue is mainly in knowing which files to convert as many of them are > not part of the movie. This information is encoded in the DVD structure > but it's a pain to decode manually. > > poc > Try Mencoder (MPlayer) mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate="1200" -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=128 -o dvd.avi You can see the man page for more options like zooming, scaling and subtitle stuffs. man mencoder There's also GUI frontends: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html#mencoder_frontends HTH -- Athmane Madjoudj -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines