On 2010/01/20 11:05 PM, Phil Ehrens wrote: > 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. > This is much easer than what I'm doing now, I'll definitely play some more and adjust my scripts accordingly. As to cropping, Would that be done using transcode ?
I can't google right now, our international connection is dead in the water. I would just like to remove any black borders from frames, not really caring about resizing at all. I just want to keep as much quality as possibly. Henti
