<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Hetherington</b> <<a href="mailto:redcane@redcane.homelinux.org">redcane@redcane.homelinux.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>> Not that this provides a Myth solution, but this is all so much easier<br>> on Windows. Use something like CladDVD to rip the main VOB file<br>> unencrypted to the hard disk. Use VirtualDubMod to reencode to Divx or
<br>> xvid or whatever. I've found that many kids DVDs, especially Disney do<br>> not reencode well without audio drifting so I just leave those as VOB<br>> files on the hard disk. They play back just as well with mplayer or
<br>> xine as xvid/divx do, just a little more disk space.<br>><br>???<br>MythDVD has a ripping component, it can either rip as a is, or transcode to<br>MPEG4 (I believe xvid). You don't even need to leave the mythfrontend. On
<br>debian I just did "apt-get install mythdvd", and there it is in the menu.<br>Tell it what your dvd device is, where to rip videos, and you have a rip menu<br>option. I used it a few times, but it doesn't allow you as much tweaking as
<br>other programs.</blockquote><div><br>The main problem I had with MythDVD was the Arcoss protection. MythDVD would start<br>to rip, but then freak out when it hit the bad sectors of the disc. It would then say that it would
<br>take up to 450+, sometimes in the thousands, of hours to complete. Then I would try to cancel, <br>and it would lock the dvd drive so I would have to reboot to fix it. Now this was under the 0.18.1<br>myth, I haven't tried
0.19 yet. Does it handle the protection any better?<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Which brings us to "DVD::RIP" which will do rip and transcode on the fly, so
<br>you don't need to rip the VOB to disk first. It does automated Two pass<br>encoding, distributed encoding (i.e. do the number crunching on multiple PCs<br>via a network).<br>There are plenty of other solutions out there for linux as well, from command
<br>line scripts (if your logging in remotely), to full GUIs like transcode. This<br>sort of thing is so much easier on Linux, especially when all the tools come<br>built in to a lot of popular distributions.</blockquote>
<div><br>I have not tried DVD::RIP yet. It was something on the list, but I wanted to see if the playing worked <br>first. I guess I could give it a shot and see what happens. <br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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