converting VHS to digital

[Federico Voges]

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 10/03/2005 06:42 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
>> Hey Llama,
>> What command line do you use to rip and encode a DVD in mencoder?
>> I'm trying to learn the mencoder side of things a bit.  It seems 
>> pretty powerful, but just as cryptic as transcode... and I haven't 
>> found as good of documentation yet...  Nothing like sticking the man 
>> page for both mplayer and mencoder together!
>
>
> i don't use mencoder for dvd's at all.  I use transcode to do the 
> encoding with the dvdrip GUI front end.  Sometimes if i'm in a rush 
> (like needing to return the DVD to the library), i'll rip the entire 
> DVD image to disk with good ole 'dd' and then use dvdrip later, on the 
> loopback mounted DVD image.
>
> One thing to keep in mind if you're going to use dd to rip a DVD image 
> is that you ened to play the DVD first with either xine or mplayer to 
> crack the CSS keys or dd will choke.
>
I use dvdbackup for that ;)

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