Frankie wrote: >Hi guys (and ladies where applic..), > >Out of curiosity, I decided to make a divx movie from a DVD I have >here.. I am not a pirate, I just wanted to try it. > >So, after a bit of searching the net,, I found an excellent guide to >doing this... it does everything from cropping the black borders to >telling you the exact correct bitrate dolby sound etc.... and it works >fantastic.. >It entire process required about 6 different (free from the net) >programs to achieve the almost flawless result. > >It took me about 2 days to make one divx movie.. that was on a windows >2000 box. a Celery 300A running at 464mhz with 128 mb ram. > >Not only was it all windows.. but running through 6 programs to do this >was rather time consuming... (although most of the 2 days the PC was >encoding the divx without me.) > >now my question is this... Is there a way of doing this in Linux?? and >can it be scripted? not only is my linux server much faster (2100XP >athlon) but if it can be scripted, I can set and forget it.. start the >process, and later come back and burn the movies to disk. > >Now that I know I can do it in windows, I'd like to work out how to do >it in linux and back up my dvd collection. > > >any tips would be fantastic... > > >rgds > >Frank > >PS, Has anyone tried the XMPS player??? it looks fantastic.. and >apparently plays divx well... > >
The programme you want is called Mplayer , and Mencoder that comes with it. -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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