Re: [dvd::rip] New release: dvd::rip 0.29

[Boris Granveaud <boris.granveaud@xxxxxxxxxx>]

it sounds very interesting. I'd love to be able to encode my SVCD on my 
linux box, instead of using windows programs (TMPGEnc, ...). Could you 
send your patch or could it be incorporated in the official version?

> Is anyone (besides myself) working on or interested in mods to dvd::rip to
> support exporting to (S)VCD format mpeg files?  I've been working on it
> a little bit, adding options to the Transcode tab screen to have transcode
> output (S)VCD format mpeg files.  The transcode vcd mpeg support appears to
> be in its infancy, but I have been able to rip and encode a short clip from
> my Mummy Returns DVD and write it to a VCD and playback in my standalone
> DVD player.  My mods don't affect the normal operation of dvd::rip with
> respect to divx output.
>
> I've added the following fields to the transcode tab (some not 100%
> supported yet though):
>
>         video framerate (if you want to change for some reason)
>         audio samplerate (for transcoding to required (S)VCD rate)
>         audio delay (if your A/V aren't synced in ouput.
>
> The mod also calls mplex to multiplex the .m1v and .mpa files generated
> by transcode when outputing in vcd format.
>
> The 'af6 Video Codec' field is already passed in with the '-F' option to
> transcode.  Transcode uses the '-F' option to set the VCD format
> whether VCD, SVCD, user-bitrate VCD (XVCD), etc..
>
> I am having a bit of a problem syncing the audio and video when trying to
> rip a 23.976fps/48000hz DVD to 23.976fps/44100hz VCD though, but that is
> more of a transcode problem I believe.  Right now I'm instead converting
> 23.976fps/48000hz DVD to 29.97fps/48000hz VCD to get the audio to sync
> properly.  I'm kinda new at this though, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.
>
> If anyone else is working on this or interested, feel free to email me or
> we could discuss it here.

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Boris Granveaud
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