[Lilux-help] DVD

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:13:17PM +0100, alex wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a smart proggy capable to shrink a DVD to make a
> > backup onto one DVD (4,7GB), the film & extras (menus etc...),
> > i.a. the whole DVD content!
>
> What about video-dvdrip, the front-end to transcode?

:-) sort of funny, if you remember that Al showed us transcode -
not sure if he used the same GUI though.

Actually, I'm not sure if this corresponds to Al's question.
In the features list [2] of dvdrip [1] I see lots of options
on converting a DVD to some sort of video CD, but not something
to burn back to DVD (you know, thos DVD+-*/%RW burners are
getting cheap enough for everybody).
I'd also be very interested in having a simple-to-use and fast
way of ripping a DVD so I could select what exactly I want from
the original, and scaling the MPEG stream to get the maximum
size available on DVD-R. There is such a thing on Winblows and
MacOS, but I'm not aware of any such FOSS (any problems with
DVD Forum/MPAA/whoever set aside).

[1] http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
[2] http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/features.cipp

Greetings, Eric