On Wednesday 06 December 2006 13:41, Michael Weyershäuser wrote: > Ian McCulloch wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Stear wrote: snip > > There are a few relatively easy to use GUI Tools around (ogmrip comes to > mind), but they are somewhat limited in options. One tool that has quite > a few options (but therefor requires some knowledge and reading on your > end) is dvdrip. All of these are best used for encoding to xvid. > But there is a new star on the codec horizon, and that's h264. Takes a > lot of CPU cycles to encode (10-12h on an opteron 148 for a 2h movie > with high quality settings here), takes more CPU power than xvid to > decode (Though that shouldn't be as bad as encoding) but gives you the > same quality as xvid with half the bitrate. The best way to encode this > is with mencoder, their homepage has some good information and the > mplayer man page has the rest. Check > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html chapter 14 and following. Thanks very much for this info, I am at the moment converting one dvd into mpeg4 using dvrip. It is taking a long time. I will check out the memcoder homepage. Thanks again Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux
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