On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:05:02 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile somefilm.mpeg > > No point though, really, is there? I mean, I'm happy with it this way, > I'm not short of space, and to me that just seems to be complicating > things.
Well it's a one line command, no more complex than the dd you use, except it works first time ;-) > > However, it did download and compile a bunch of libraries that I > > already > > have. Programs using their own copies of libraries is a bit Windowsy > > for > > my liking. > > I know. I find it more "Macintoshy" than Windowsy myself, but whatever > - it just feels a little dirty. I can only guess the Handbrake devs > did it this ways because the latest versions of media libs like these > aren't so well tracked by many distros, so this saves them manually > updating from SVN (or are the versions pinned?). Also, I think they > develop for Windows & that HandBrakeCLI will compile & work on that > platform. There's also the way the ffmpeg API keeps changing, breaking everything built against it :( > > I suspect 0.9.4 will have more luck, as it uses a more standard build > > system. > > I really nope so. If I had more time I might look at the SVN & see if > I could hack an ebuild, but 0.9.3 is working just fine for me right > now. I didn't bother with an ebuild, it only installs one executable if you don't build the GUI. > Depending on how much time is available to you for ripping, and upon > your optical prescription &/or tolerance for video quality, you > probably want to look at undvd's "-2" argument & its target size > option. I think you can set the bitrate in undvd, but I didn't find it > obvious what bitrate it's using by default - thus it's not obvious > what bitrate to choose in order to improve quality (or by default does > it try to make a file that'll fit on a CD-R? I can't recall). Setting > a target video size is the easy way to improve video quality in undvd > & on a number of movies I found a 1.2gig rip indistinguishable from > the original DVD. I think it uses 900 as the default bitrate, I read that somewhere in the docs. > If you just want the movies to play back on a Linux laptop whilst on a > holiday trip then this probably won't bother you at all, but if you > want an "archive" of your movie collection which you'll keep for > playback into the future then undvd isn't the best ripper. It seems to > me that HandBrakeCLI takes that prize, in the command-line category, > at least. At the moment that's all I want, but that may not always be true, so I'd rather find one program that addresses my current and possible future needs, instead of having to learn a second later on. Undvd is very simple to use, but after some playing it turns out to be too simple, I'm a Gentoo user and therefore a control freak. -- Neil Bothwick the sum of all human intelligence is constant, only the number of humans increases.
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