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    Hello,

    I have an older computer that I have just loaded Linux onto. I was wondering if there was a complete set of tools for ripping DVD's into VCD's.

    What I normally used was Smartripper, DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc.

    Are there comparable software programs out there that will do the same as the tools that I use under Windows? If so, what are they and were could I find ALL of them?

    Also, one last question. Is there a prefferable version of Linux out there that is more suited to DVD ripping and encoding? I'm using Red Hat v7.2.

    Thanks in advance to everyone's help on this one.
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    WHY oh WHY has no one relpied?

    Oh please help me out, for I'm a newbie to linux.....

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  3. why even bother?
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    Are you serious?

    Do you really have no clue at all?
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    Originally Posted by musher70
    why even bother?
    Three words: CHEAP RENDER FARM

    AN open source toolchain for encoding would allow one to create a distributed encoding system that can split one encoding job across multiple machines (do a google search on beowulf clusters for details). At $400 - $500 per node and $800 for a a dedicated server (with 120GB HD), one could have a kick ass encoding system for well under $3000.


    (of course, musher70 is just trolling, but I'd though I just mention this to show what could be done with a linux video toolset.)
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  6. This Linux video forum is relatively new to this board, and as such it is a bit like the Field of Dreams ballfield, waiting for people to hear about it and start dropping by.

    Patience...
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  7. I see that it is a really late reply, but better late than never.

    There are some really good utilities for all sorts of video manipulation. To keep this short I will just keep to the DVD ripping software. You should check out transcode and dvd::rip.

    Transcode: http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/

    This is a great multipurpose video stream processing tool. It can convert between a large number of formats and has many features including filters. The interface is command line and has a lot of options, but there are some good examples on the web page and once you get the feel for it there is no problem.

    DVD::Rip
    http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

    DVD::Rip is a very nice front-end for transcode that makes ripping DVD backups into DivX, XviD, VCD, SVCD quite easy. It has a lot of options and has been maturing very quickly.


    Be aware that encoding video can be a very time consuming process -- very much so on older hardware.

    Best luck.
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  8. Hey Shango,

    Do you know of tools to DVD rip movies to DVD-RAM dvd's?
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    Howdy Shango,

    Thanks for the gen on transcode...it looks good....I'll give it a try when I get some free time...and get back to using a real o/s


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  10. www.sourceforge.net
    drip
    ogle
    xine
    libdvdread
    libdvdcss
    libdvdnav
    a52dec
    mpeg2dec
    css-auth

    those are the tools i have, and the main site i got them from. or was linked from.
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  11. so with those tools are you able to rip DVD's and burn them?
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  12. if all you wanna do is rip it to burn it

    http://dvdripping-guid.berlios.de/

    go there after you download Mplayer.

    it doesnt do that great of a job, but it does get the job done (better than some programs i've seen out there)

    you can also go to http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/divx_linux_guide.html

    although, i havent gotten transcode to install, even with having the dependencies installed. but good luck!
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  13. Hi all, just wanted to mention that installing transcode is a major pain in the ass

    I got an older version to compile on a redhat 7.1 system, though i never did use it for anything...

    I'm now using mandrake 9.0. To install transcode, i went to the Penguin Liberation Front web site (use google to find). They package stuff for mandrake that mandrake can't include due to copyrights and stuff like that...anyway, you choose a mirror, than use their command generator to give you the command to add their site and packages to your urpmi database...after that, in a console, as root, do:

    urpmi transcode

    and watch it download a shit-ton of software. If you compile transcode, you can omit support for certain external libs, but this package has it linked to every damn possible thing, so it's a bit of an undertaking..urpmi is far from perfect, and still fails on a few dependencies, which you can try to also urpmi or search for (again, google). I finally managed to get the booger installed, and then went on to install dvdrip. As a matter of fact, i had mplayer installed/compiled and actually uninstalled it and urpmi'd mplayer to satisfy transcode! I don't regret this because now my mplayer has support for everything under the sun - when i compiled it was quite lazy.

    dvdrip has a cluster mode - i'd live to customize KNOPPIX to include transcode and automaticaly mount an nfs share, so that i could quickly turn any room full of networked pc's into a kick-ass dvd ripping cluster...
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