DVD Writing

[Robin Laing]

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.
> 
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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