serving up a dvd collection 'on demand' (w/o the discs)

[Raymond Russell]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> When ripping DVD's, be sure to pick a location several meg into the  
> video to
> "grab" the frame rate.  Many hours of headache have been spent  
> lamenting this
> one.  The video will start with one frame rate and then quickly  
> switch to
> another...  leaving audio and video considerably off by the end of  
> the movie.
>
> If you all can figure out how to get around the funky stuff in The  
> Matrix and
> the Clone Wars, I'd appreciate knowing.  The special effects play  
> over and
> over from different angles, and when they're done the audio is  
> significantly
> out of whack...
>


HandBrake works great for ripping DVD's to Divx or MP4.  There are only
Mac binaries available so you have to build it your self on Linux.   
You only
get a command line version in Linux but I hear it works as good as  
the Mac
version.  Go to http://handbrake.m0k.org/index.php to grab the source  
code.

I use Handbrake on my Mac and have The Matrix crunched down to under
600 MB and the quality is pretty good.


--
Ray Russell
ray1083 at mac.com