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On Wednesday 06 December 2006 13:41, Michael Weyershäuser wrote: |
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> Ian McCulloch wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Paul Stear wrote: |
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> There are a few relatively easy to use GUI Tools around (ogmrip comes to |
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> mind), but they are somewhat limited in options. One tool that has quite |
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> a few options (but therefor requires some knowledge and reading on your |
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> end) is dvdrip. All of these are best used for encoding to xvid. |
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> But there is a new star on the codec horizon, and that's h264. Takes a |
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> lot of CPU cycles to encode (10-12h on an opteron 148 for a 2h movie |
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> with high quality settings here), takes more CPU power than xvid to |
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> decode (Though that shouldn't be as bad as encoding) but gives you the |
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> same quality as xvid with half the bitrate. The best way to encode this |
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> is with mencoder, their homepage has some good information and the |
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> mplayer man page has the rest. Check |
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> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html chapter 14 and following. |
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Thanks very much for this info, I am at the moment converting one dvd into |
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mpeg4 using dvrip. It is taking a long time. |
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I will check out the memcoder homepage. |
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Thanks again |
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Paul |
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