On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:37:29 -0800
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
There is a front end for transcode called gtranscode, I've not used it
yet but i thought you might like to know about it.
Regards,
Dan Gordon
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