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Recommend DVD-ripping software for Linux?
daveLovesIt:
--- Quote from: nstgc on July 21, 2010, 02:12:52 AM ---I've MEncoder, and think it works well. I know a GUI exists, but I haven't used it. I wrote a script that I simply had to specify a bit rate, and a name and it would encode and mux the files to mkv. Once you write the script it shouldn't matter if you have a GUI.
On a side note, try playing with snow. Its super slow, but it compresses thing beautifully and in small files.
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I've never heard of snow before, or at least forgotten about it. Thanks, I'll take a look.
I'm thinking MEncoder might be a good step forward for me. Have you (or anyone else) ever used it to fix AV sync issues when re-encoding stuff (from .mkv sources), and if so what was your experience of that? With ffmpeg, I've found it can do basically anything, but by too many differing methods.
Thanks for the input from both of you, It's nice to get input from linux users who are specifically handling anime.
raylu:
What's wrong with just using ffmpeg (and x264 and whatever you used to produce the video in your AVIs)?
Also, I assume you've seen doom9.org?
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It's a bit old, but the 2005 doom9 comparison didn't advance Snow past the qualification round.
Dark Shikari, one of the x264 developers, doesn't think too highly of Snow either: Comparison from 2009, "The problems with wavelets".
daveLovesIt:
--- Quote from: raylu on July 24, 2010, 12:31:42 AM ---What's wrong with just using ffmpeg (and x264 and whatever you used to produce the video in your AVIs)?
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Long story short, I think I'm ffing sick of it... irritatingly, after reading around for posts arguing the cases for ffmpeg vs mencoder, people who had a strong working knowledge of both were often saying that they like to use one for some tasks and the other for different tasks.
I'm playing with mencoder now (just porting scripts from ffmpeg to mencoder) and I have to say that I think the syntax is a little nicer, but maybe I'm just sick of man ffmpeg. If nothing else I can always point two scripts at my sources for a while and see which produces better results.
Thanks for the links regarding snow.
jackoneill:
--- Quote from: daveLovesIt on July 20, 2010, 09:14:17 AM ---It was strange to see so many people on Ubuntu forums actually suggest that people install a windows partition to do DVD-Ripping :(
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Well, windows has megui.
+1 for handbrake (though I don't do much dvd ripping/transcoding).
nstgc:
--- Quote from: daveLovesIt on July 25, 2010, 11:10:33 AM ---
--- Quote from: raylu on July 24, 2010, 12:31:42 AM ---What's wrong with just using ffmpeg (and x264 and whatever you used to produce the video in your AVIs)?
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Long story short, I think I'm ffing sick of it... irritatingly, after reading around for posts arguing the cases for ffmpeg vs mencoder, people who had a strong working knowledge of both were often saying that they like to use one for some tasks and the other for different tasks.
I'm playing with mencoder now (just porting scripts from ffmpeg to mencoder) and I have to say that I think the syntax is a little nicer, but maybe I'm just sick of man ffmpeg. If nothing else I can always point two scripts at my sources for a while and see which produces better results.
Thanks for the links regarding snow.
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I've never used ffmpeg directly, mostly because of the very issue of syntax. Also, I use x264 to encode instead of the h.264 encoder found in ffmpeg. It has more options.
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