Henti Smith wrote: > On 2010/01/20 08:13 PM, Phil Ehrens wrote: > > If you use tccat, it will put the main title with all > > the audio and subs into a nice mpg file ;^) > > > > If you put it into an mkv you risk creating a > > vfr monster. Yeeecch. The vob/mpg container > > does the right thing with vfr, flagging the > > transitions properly. > > > > People here *do* know that dvd's support and > > usually have mixed framerate content, right? > > > I'll play with this. I'm still new to ripping content, I just got tired > of switching back and forth between DVD's that I want to watch. and > tools like handbrake and DVD::RIP would make the frames smaller and > loose quality. > I didn't want smaller files per say, just the content I wanted, minus > the audio and subtitles I didn't want, hence I learned how to create MKV > files from the VOBs, I'll play with tccat as suggested and see how that > goes.
No playing around required. Just determine the title number of the main title and (main title number is '2' in this example): tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 2,-1 >mymovie.mpg You get all the audio tracks and all the subtitles. And it's super fast. And you're using transcode, so you're in the right mailing list if it fails. BTW, most people scale when they rip and transcode, and they are doing the wrong thing. If you keep the same resolution as the source (cropping is okay, since it involves no scaling - the output res will be the size of the cropped image if you crop) the quality of the output will be markedly better (at the same average bitrate), because scaling always introduces aliasing (often not apparent because post-processing can smooth it away). Also, note that "scaling" to the same size as the source is not an actual scaling operation, so no aliasing will occur. Scaling to the same size is required in some cases to make the pixel aspect ratio come out right. I admit that I don't understand why. I am not a video expert, I just happen to know a fair amount about dvd's, and somewhat less about encoding.
