On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 04:02:49 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following:
> Steps are as follows: > > 1) run script mencvcd to convert the DVD into two files (mpa & mpv) for > the DVD in question. > > Command line might go something like this: > > 'mencvcd carter dvd://1 -sid 0 -aid 128 -ss 3:00 -frames 1500 \ > -noburn -vnorm n -vfr 1' > > all on one line of course. Drop the --frames and -ss part since yuou > just want to do the entire movie, although you might as well do just a > short part in the beginning to make sure things work - doing the whole > movie takes several hours. > > 2) use mplex to multiplex the audio and video from these mpa and mpv > files. The result will be one or more files that contain the various > parts of the CD. Example > > $ mplex america-1 america.mpv america.mpa > > 3) use vcdimager to turn the files from mplex into cue/bin files > suitable for burning directly (no filesystem / iso image?) to the CD. > (Use a CD-RW first ;). Actually, the mencvcd script will do all of that for you, no? ...and you should only need to use the -tvnorm n -vfr 1 if you run the script and it bitches about not knowing the framerate, but DVD's should have that properly encoded. >From 'mencvcd -h' 'mencvcd crazy dvd://3 -w': encodes and burns dvd title 3 to VCD in 16:9. Also, IME, VCD output is rather blocky, not good quality at all. I always use the -svcdout arg. It takes about 48 hours (and takes up 2 CD's) on this poor old P3 for a full live-action movie, but the quality of SVCD is a lot better. I mainly just do animated stuff for my daughter now. You'd have trouble telling Toy Story wasn't a DVD unless you went right up to the TV screen, and that's ripping from a DivX. Anyhow, here are the appropriate links for all the info needed: http://hammelmann.gmxhome.de/mencvcd (this is the script) and http://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de/ -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 08:03:04 up 3 days, 22:34, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth." -- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry
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