Re: dvd-9 --> dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine
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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 12:52, Andrew Sackville-West
<andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> I've had good success with dvdrip, though I use it slightly
> differently. I'm ripping my dvd's and saving them as .avi's on my
> file server for easier watching in myth :)
The "xdvdshrink" package seems to do a good job. I have some Japanese
disks that won't play in an American player. Region encoding, don't
ya know. (would this be a bad time to talk about government
intervention again? yeah. ok, I won't.)
So anyway, xdvdshrink does indeed make a dvd-5 playable copy, but only
of one title, one audio track, etc. It doesn't do the entire disk,
menus and all which would be nice, but the author says he's built it
the way he likes it and it was never meant to shrink the entire disk.
It has given me one problem, though. My letter-box "Totoro" displays
on the TV as full-screen, even though the same shrunk DVD plays
letter-boxed through XINE. One more good reason to get that media PC
put together so writing new DVDs isn't needed.
I've never tried dvd::rip for making a DVD image. It sure does a great
job of making clean .avi files though. Much better than a
mplayer/mencoder hack I tried to put together myself.
Curt-
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