On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:25 -0600, Jared Bellows wrote: > On 5/23/07, adam fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So I am looking at building my media server and have tried a few different > > products. I have loved the clonedvd/anydvd setup for burning to a dvd. > > Howver, for my media server I was hoping to get it down to about 2 to > > 2.5gigs and still maintain good quality. I have gone through all the > > afterdawn, > > doom9, and digest stuff and just don't want to have to use 5-6 different > > programs. Any recommendations on a do it all software that will get the > > compression that I need. Looking at either divx of xvid most likely. > > > I know what you mean with 5-6 different programs, but I've found that they > are all scriptable (at least the ones I am using). I wrote a script to go > through a specificed directory and do the conversion of all VOBs to DivX. If > you don't want to do that, you can also look into the DivX Converter. It is > supposed to convert VOBs into DivX. I haven't tried it myself so can't say > how well it works.
Have you looked at dvd::rip? I'm no expert on video, but I've used it to copy DVDs to VCD and AVI with decent success. It's endlessly configurable but the defaults seem to be reasonable. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
