---------- quoting Antoine ----------
I can't understand why people don't take dvd::rip more seriously. It is really great (though doesn't do menus but none of the other solutions seem to either). People think that you only do cds with it - silly. You just specify the size you want the output avi and it calculates everything for you. You can do multiple languages and subtitles all there and there is no need to do things manually like with mencoder. You probably get better control and quality with mencoder but to do things properly (crop, multiple langs, etc) you spend sooooo much time. Writing a tool to do it will always fall short of dvd::rip for me - they have already done almost all of the hard work. Give it a proper go (i.e., 10 copies or so) before knocking it.
Can it handle 5.1 audio?
A modest google gives this from the dvd::rip site:
DVD audio streams are usually encoded using the AC3 format. You can passthrough the AC3, so no re-encoding is necessary, which gives best audio quality. Also you keep 5.1 surround sound (if it's 5.1 AC3).
But AC3 streams need considerably more space than MP3 or Vorbis streams, so if you don't need the 5.1 format you should re-encode the audio to one of these. dvd::rip supports both MP3 and Vorbis. The (S)VCD specification defines MP2 as the audio format, so you have no choice here.
So yes it can if it's AC3 (don't know much about that...), Cheers Antoine
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