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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] DVD to XviD/DivX conversion
From:       Bryan Hoover <malketh () malkethius ! net>
Date:       2004-02-01 0:36:01
Message-ID: 401C49F1.7080006 () malkethius ! net
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Spider wrote:
> begin  quote
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 02:48:52 -0600
> Bryan Hoover <malketh@malkethius.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Gard Spreemann wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm not entirely sure that this is the right list to post to, but
>>>I'll go ahead.
>>>
>>>There is now only one thing I need to keep Windows on my computer in
>>>order to do, and that is to back up my DVDs to XviD to be able to
>>>keep them on my hard drive. To be honest, mencoder's documentation
>>>isn't exactly easily understandable. Some googling put me in touch
>>>with DVD::Rip, and I will be trying it out. What I am wondering
>>>about though, is your hints, tips and methods for DVD ripping.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>(Oh why oh why haven't people ported FlasK XMPEG and VirtualDub yet?
>>>;-))
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>Well I use mencoder and do 3 pass encodes using libavcodec's mpeg4 (I 
>>think it's xvid, might be divx, but I know it's NOT divx4linux as
>>that's a separate setting) and lame to create full res backups. My
>>settings are as follows for an anamorphic (16x9) movie that crops out
>>the black bands:
>>
>>mencoder dvd://$TRACK -ovc frameno -oac mp3lame -alang en -af
>>volume=+10 -lameopts vbr=2:q=0:aq=0:preset=standard -o frameno.avi
>>mencoder dvd://$TRACK -ovc lavc -oac copy -alang en -vf 
>>crop=720:360:0:60,scale=854:360:0:100 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1
>>-o $AVIFILE
>>mencoder dvd://$TRACK -ovc lavc -oac copy -alang en -vf 
>>crop=720:360:0:60,scale=854:360:0:100 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2
>>-o $AVIFILE
>>
>>Some settings may be redundant, if so feel free to ignore them, I just
>>
>>like being safe, and remember to replace the bash variables ($TRACK, 
>>$AVIFILE) with appropriate track settings and output files. If you
>>don't have /dev/dvd slip in '--dvd-device /dev/whatever' in each of
>>those lines.
>>
>>As for your question why? For me it's because those two progs are slow
>>
>>as hell and of course, real men do it on the console. ;)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Some notes here. You prolly want to ad -sws 10 too ( you use the
> software scaler, so for that you want to use bicubic spline instead of
> fast bilinear when scaling. better results)
> 
> Another point is that mpeg4 encoders want input thats divisible with 16
> at all turns..
> 
> more so, you want v4mv to lavcops (4motion vectors) 
> 
> //Spider
>   -  Guess what I've been doing the last night? ;)
> 
> 
> 

Ah ha.. I'll have to give those a shot. Most of my movies come out 
looking good as is, but a few don't look so great here and there so 
hopefully that will fix those. Thank you!

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