Re: [newbie] Divx win vrs Lin
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] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Divx win vrs Lin
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... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Divx win vrs Lin
now my question is this... Is there a way of doing this in Linux?? and sure. only one program needed. top-quality results. one command and forget about it ( unless you want two-pass or three-pass encoding, which will need two or three commands ;o) www.mplayerhq.hu download mplayer, it will come with mencoder bundled. once you are up n running with mencoder, read their great docs. www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/ mencoder is a commandline utility, so make sure you read all there is to it before you start compressing movies. i use it currently to encode all my movies to DivX5 which makes it half the size with no quality loss. sometimes i can even enlarge the movie and still the resulting one is half the size. can it be scripted? not only is my linux server much faster (2100XP no need. it's one or two commands you will need. but if you really need it, you could make an alias for it.. 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... hmm never needed anything other that mplayer. ;o) yea yea i'm mplayer fan. no doubt about that. ;oP Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
