On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:34:40 +1300 anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure is. I used mencoder for a while but it seems to ask to much from > my > chip (long story) which promptly overheats and seizes. Which gets me > That seems to be a hardware problem. Have you tried mprime and the other diagnostics on your system? mencoder does do a lot of work, but it shouldn't lock your system up. I've had success with both approaches. mencoder (or if you want graphical, there's gmencoder) does produce quality video, although I've only used it for DivX and mpeg4 stuff. DVD:rip is fairly easy to use, but is slower, and it's mostly because there are a dozen or more instances of transcode and other helper things behind the scenes doing the actual work. With DVD:rip (and gmencoder) it's easier to 'size' the resultant output so that you get an AVI that fits precisely on one 80 min CDR. Just using mencoder, that's not all that easy to do. And (for me) I don't yet grok the transcode options -- they seem more daunting than the mencoder ones -- and without doing a lot of looking, it seems mencoder/mplayer is more documented than is transcode. If you experiment with mencoder and come up with a good invocation that works, you might as well make a shell script or an alias out of it since figuring out those options the next time can be just as difficult. Also, I haven't tried doing any VCDs yet. Hell, my older cheapie DVD player won't play them, and my even older one claimed to but was not able to play anything that's on CD-ROM (i.e, not store bought stuff), so VCDs are of little use. > Anton -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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