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

[Michael Mol]

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)

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".)
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