DVD Authoring

[Cyber Source]

I vote for a demo on this at the next meeting!

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>What apps are people here using in Linux to backup their legally purchased
>>DVD's?
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>dvdbackup, tovid, lxdvdrip.  Use google to get their exact homepages, as I
>don't have them handy at the moment...
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>>I have researched tons of apps for burning, requanting (real word - eh who
>>knows), and burning.  So far I'm hooked on K3B for burning but want to do
>>everything from CLI. So growisofs it is. (or dvdrecord - you see how quickly
>>this gets confusing)
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>>I am using dvdbackup to rip, mkisofs to create and k3b to burn , but I'm
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>>trouble finding a good resizing app that is easy to use (yes tcrequant is OK
>>but I want something anyone can use, without having to do math :-)
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>tovid is good for resizing or translating AVI's (or anything mplayer can play)
>into DVD or VCD/SVCD compliant formats. tcrequant can be used to shrink an
>already compliant file to make it fit on DVD.  The math isn't so hard once you
>do it a couple of times.   The tcscan utility from the transcode suite can help
>as well as it gives info on the files. (there are several other useful
>utilities in that package)  Tovid comes with "dvrequant" which is pretty simple
>for requantitizing files  (shrinking) if you don't like tcrequant.
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>>Then once I understand the different permutations of ripping, resizing (for
>>files larger than 4464MB) and burning I wonder if there is one GUI that
>>handles
>>all this.
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>Donno of any gui's that do it all,  I usually use various tools based on the
>DVD  type encountered.
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
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