Question

[David Bandel]

On 5/3/05, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
> Not only do I have a Dual-layer burner that I picked up for about $100 last
> year, but I have a bit of experience ripping and encoding DVD's using K3b and

lucky you.

[snip]

> 
> Mencoder (part of MPlayer) also has all these capabilities, but I've not done
> much with it.  Since it is part of the Kubuntu included software, I might
> someday figure out how to do the same things with Mencoder.  I want to rip
> the Incedibles soon since I just got it :)

You'll also want to rip Jack-Jack Attack.  It's better than the movie.  

> 
> I don't write the DVD's to another removable medium, though.  To do that,
> there is a different process, including the creation of a SVCD image and
> writing an SVCD or DVD, etc...  I simply rip them and encode to DivX
> (actually I use xvid) format on the hard drive.  That way I can call them up
> easily and not worry about the original or even backup DVD's.
> 
> A decent quality encoding will run my about 1.5GB per movie depending on the
> length and relative action of the flic.
> 

This is why I tell dvdrip to transcode to 700Mb and use .avi.  I found
that results in the smallest file of best quality video (unless I'm
doing something wrong).  Everything else of decent quality wants to be
much bigger.  And I want to keep a copy on CD as a backup.

I find the 30fps usually settles down at around 29.65fps.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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