Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:02:18 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:03, Nick Rout wrote: dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. It looked that way to me, however in every test I tried, after ripping it always said only X out of a

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:28:32 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:02:18 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:03, Nick Rout wrote: dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. It looked that way to me,

[gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
Having given up on dvdrip for ripping dvd's, i've since moved on to a howto I was pointed at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Ian Porter
Hi Having given up on dvdrip for ripping dvd's, i've since moved on to a howto I was pointed at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder Not sure how much of a help it is, but ages ago I was playing about with linux avi/mpeg - dvd ripping etc.. and did write up a couple of notes on

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:51 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opt to go for the supposedly higher quality x264, so I do two passes: 1: mencoder -v ../vob/title1.vob -alang en -vf crop=720:352:0:62,scale=752:320 -ovc x264 -x264encopts

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my company's web site (http://www.SysEx.com.na) under Linux tips and tricks. It's tip #5. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Rout
dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:48:34 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:03, Nick Rout wrote: dvdrip is in portage and is an excellent tool for backing up DVD. It looked that way to me, however in every test I tried, after ripping it always said only X out of a total of Y frames were ripped, and it was always somewhere around 20 - 30%