Question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Gee, you have been busy!

I have been trying these thingswith video tape -> SVCD. I use mencode.
Nice program. The biggest problem I have is that the capture does not
seem to keep up. mencode tells how well it is doing in this respect, and
never reports a bad value. Yet, the captured file is quite bad - lots of
big squares in image. Have you ever worked your magic with Transcode on
video tapes?

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:22, Matthew Carpenter 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 
> Transcode.  I use the first one to actually rip the video stream from the 
> DVD, since K3b's interface is rather friendly.  Even though K3b also allows 
> you to encode the video, I've found it to be rather hit or miss as to what 
> the results look like.  After many many hours of refining a transcoding 
> script, I determined the most frequent cause of pain was the sudden shift in 
> frames-per-second within the first few minutes.  Transcode starts at the FPS 
> rate at the beginning of the movie and continues with that the whole way 
> (sometimes ending the video stream even 30 minutes before the audio stream is 
> done).  So I tell Transcode to take a sample from about 5 minutes into the 
> stream and I'm usually good.
> 
> Once in a while, though, I'll hit a movie like Star Wars Episode II or The 
> Matrix (only the first one), where parts of the movie are a mess of 
> spaghetti-video and the resulting audio/video will be out of sync.  
> Spaghetti-video is where the DVD has angle "commands" encoded that the DVD 
> player follows but Transcode does not.  So in The Matrix, whenever they have 
> a special effect of stop-action rapid-rotation cinematography (ie. Trinity 
> suspended in mid-air before a kick while the camera rotates around her), 
> several views get encoded, and the A/V gets a second or two out of sync... 
> and you get to see Trin do the same kick over and over (about 4 times).
> I've not found a cure for this one yet, but it's probably already on it's way 
> or I've simply overlooked something.
> 
> On Kubuntu, Transcode is not included, and when installing Transcode from 
> Debian Sarge you find out that K3b can't handle the new version of Transcode.  
> That is only of concern since I like to rip the DVD to the HD prior to 
> encoding, and I don't know the toolset well enough to be flexible in the 
> method.  One of these days I'll sit down and figure out how to rip it before 
> encoding.  Transcode has some very nice HTML documentation on how to do many 
> different things with it included in the package.
> 
> 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 :)
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> On Sunday 01 May 2005 07:25 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 May 2005 06:15 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > Hey all
> > >
> > >    Had a bit of an argument last night about ripping movies to dvd. This
> > > is possible under linux, is it not? If yes where do I get info to back
> > > myself up.
> >
> > Hope someone else answers...   The major problem is that almost all movies
> > are recorded on dual-layered DVD's and the amount of data is usually in the
> > range of 7GB or more.
> >
> > Tough nut to crack with the usual single DVD burners most people have.
> >
> > And I'm not sure what k3b would do with a DL burner but I think it might
> > work.
> >
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