On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 06:06:24PM +1000, Jan Schmidt wrote: > <quote who="Lester Cheung"> > > > Another question is: > > How difficult it is to "backup" my DVD collections to divX under linux? > > > > If I can do that I would install debian on my last windows box. Which is the > > fastest play machine I have. Okay it's a duron 8xx MHz but it's the fastest > > one I have. I guess I'd be much happier with that. > > Personally, I reckon you can't go past dvdrip for this. On my Athlon 2000 > though, you're still talking around 5 hours to transcode a DVD at good > quality. > Well I tried to do it in windows and it took about 8 hours on the duron 8xx machine.
> I use the sources on http://marillat.free.fr/ for this, and the transcode > package. Thanks for the hint Jan. Will definately check it out. -- lestercheung -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
