[GRLUG] Ben's video editing pdf & a question

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:25:56AM +0000, Michael Mol wrote:
> Handbrake works very well for ripping and encoding disks. When I
> backed up my 100 or so disc DVD collection, I believe I used
> 'dvdbackup'. (dvdbackup doesn't include an encoding option, though)

I'm actually less concerned about converting to another format.  vlc can
play a VOB just fine (and I don't want any loss of quality).  The
problem is watching a specific episode is difficult because a VOB
doesn't match up with an episode.  If I had sufficient disk space I
would simply use dvdbackup and keep all the extra features though I
would really prefer having an individual file for each episode
(something like `Stargate_SG1_S01E01_Children_of_the_Gods.mpg').

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:19 AM, John-Thomas Richards
> <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > Ben recently made available a pdf of a talk he did on video editing
> > in Linux (thanks, Ben; very useful!).  Ripping a DVD to a computer
> > is trivial.  I have ten seasons of Stargate: SG1 and five of
> > Stargate Atlantis that I'd like to convert.  Doing this episode by
> > episode is not very appealing.
> >
> > I thought perhaps I could just copy the VOBs, cat them together
> > (since an episode may span two VOBs), convert the large VOB to the
> > appropriate format, and then just cut the large video file into the
> > appropriate chunks (the episodes are very, very close in length).
> >  Am I headed the right direction or is there a better way?  (And by
> > "better" I mean "easier".) -- john-thomas ------ Men of genius are
> -- :wq

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