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

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, John-Thomas Richards
<jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> 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').

The output of dvdbackup is a folder which is equivalent to a mounted
DVD filesystem. You can treat that as an ISO with mplayer and VLC;
that's how I watched my ripped discs.


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