[olug] Video Conversion Help

[Jordan Fox]

I ran across the name of the other software I couldn't remember for my first
email.  ogmrip.  It is specifically for ripping DVDs.  I've never used it,
but I did check it out.  The interface seemed pretty easy to use.

Looks like you have a bunch of different options now - isn't OSS great!

Jordan

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:

> There's some OK Linux applications for encoding, such as mencoder or
> Avidemux (a Virtualdub <http://virtualdub.org> clone), but there's a LOT
> of
> tweaking you'll want to do before final encoding in order to make the video
> look really good.
>
> In my experience, you can't beat Avisynth <http://www.avisynth.org/>. It's
> an open-source video processing system for Windows that creates a video
> frameserver that you can manipulate through a simple scripting language.
> You
> can do really advanced ivtc/deinterlacing that simply isn't possible
> elsewhere. It's also significantly faster than most applications. If you
> need help setting up a test workflow, I can give you some pointers.
>
> The doom9 <http://doom9.net/> forum is a good place to go for help as
> well.
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:02 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I believe I was asking along these lines before, but I'm not sure I
> > asked specifically about software programs.  Either way I am going to
> > rip my entire DVD collection (about 400 discs) and I would prefer that
> > my PS3 can play the video files I spit out.  I can eventually build a
> > Linux home theater PC, but the PS3 picks up shared video files just
> > fine for me at the moment.  The PS3 seems fickle about what it plays.
> > It supposedly supports a bunch of codecs, but it won't play one XVID
> > file, and then it plays another.  That is an issue I'm going to take
> > up with a Sony PS3 forum, or tech support.  However, I'm looking for
> > an app (can be Windows or Linux as I dual-boot) to help me rip the
> > DVDs and convert the files.
> >
> > I'm not opposed to a bash script and doing it via the command line.
> >
> > I'm assuming mpeg-4/mp4 files with h.264 encoding is the way to go,
> > but frankly I'm not set on a container or codec.  If it looks pretty
> > good, I can get a movie around or under 1 gig in size (that is what
> > I'm hoping for at least) and it will play, I'll be happy.
> >
> > Suggestions for apps and methods?
> >
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