apollyon 0 Posted July 13, 2004 My first DVD burner was in a Toshiba laptop I used only with the isntalled OS WinXP (using at home my Linux box). I recently purchased a DVDRW for my Linux box and I'm not sure what programs are available that can compress video for copying a 8GB DVD to the 4.7GB DVDRs. There are many programs that can convert DVD video into DivX, AVI, etc. but are there ones that will shrink vobs as vobs and leave in menus, etc.? Share this post Link to post
TiddlyPom 0 Posted July 14, 2004 Just in case you haven't come across them before, the site to try first (IMHO) is http://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=23#23 This is a fairly comprehensive list of video manipulation tools available under Linux. For ripping a DVD and making a backup copy you can use DVD::RIP http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ For general video editing then Cinelerra http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 takes some beating (and I can run it on my 1.2GHz/512Mb RAM Athlon system without any problems). For authoring your own DVDs then you can use 'Q DVD Author' http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ Another good alternative is DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/index.html There are plenty of other links at VideoHelp as well Share this post Link to post
martouf 0 Posted July 14, 2004 the three tools I'm aware of are: mencode, transcode, and dvd::rip Linux Journal has had some very good articles on this topic. Read these articles all the way through, and make special note of the "resources" links at the end of the articles: DVD Authoring Making Digital Movies on Linux and DVD Transcoding with Linux Metacomputing pay extra attention to the 'Background', 'DVD Partitioning', and 'Test Bed Layout' sections. Share this post Link to post
