On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:27:10 +0200
Jörn Reder <joern@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Douglas Bollinger wrote:
>
> > Actually, you don't even need a Windows box as dvdshrink works perfectly
> > under
> > Wine. In fact, I think it would take a _long_ time to get dvd::rip upto
> > dvdshrink standards, so I have to wonder if it's worth the effort.
> > Re-inventing the wheel and all that.
>
> I'm pretty sure dvd::rip will never beat dvdshrink, in particular if you
> want to keep menus and stuff intact. But for me (and I think for many
> other users too), this is not what I want. It's enough to have a good(!)
> backup of the main title, including my languages' audio channels and
> subtitles. Why waste megabytes (and reduce quality) for fancy menus and
> background material I don't need?
Hmmm, have you used dvdshrink? :) Because what you suggest is exactly what
dvdshrink is very good at and what native dvd9->4 Linux tools suck at: easily
remastering DVD's and only requantizing as necessary.
Here's how I use it: Start the program and it does a quick scan of the DVD,
showing the amount of compression needed to fit everything on a normal blank
DVD on a easy-to-read size bar. Obviously, like you, I have little interest
in menus, commericals, fbi warnings and such, so with a quick click on a tab
and a drag & drop I start the remastering process. Now just the movie will be
on the DVD. The size bar is always visible, so it's easy to see how much
compression is now needed. Luckily, there are always extra audio tracks to
cut, so with a few clicks of the mouse they are gone as well. At this point,
75% of the DVD's will fit on a burnable. If not, deep scan and then
requantilize to fit, all from the original DVD, although it is a faster to rip
the DVD to HD, but not necessary. It can't get much easier.
As far a working with wine, it works perfectly! Earlier, you had to rip the
DVD to HD first and then run the program, but lately wine has gotten good
enough that dvdshrink can work directly from the DVD.
Now it has been a year since I've looked, but back then the Linux programs I
seen were extremely crude at best. About the only one I found that worked was
a script that "sorta" automatically shrunk the DVD down, but didn't offer the
fine control of dvdshrink, certainly wasn't as easy to use and the output
didn't seem as good either.
> Of course I want to achieve this with pure OSS Linux software, and would
> love it when I can do this with my favourite DVD ripping software ;)
> Besides that its overdue that a software called "dvd::rip" finally can
> author/burn DVD's ;)
Hey, don't let me stop you. But you really should d/l dvdshrink and see how
it works. At the very least it will give you some ideas for your program.
--
We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
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