Hi folks, My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage without much luck... In lieu of better parenting, I am trying to back up our dvd's using my dvd-burner. Most of these are dual-layer dvd-9 (8+ gigabytes) and I only have single-layer dvd-5 (4.7g) discs, so I need to do some kind of re-encoding. My dvd player claims to support Divx and Mpeg4, so I was *hoping* to do the following:
- backup to hd with: dvdbackup -v 2 -M -i/dev/hdd -o/outputdir - transcode the individual VOB files to divx - create a dvd with: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd -dvd-video /outputdir I've hunted around a bit and I don't see a well-documented comprehensive solution to this problem. so my question: - is it actually possible to make a dvd file system using divx video files, or am I missing the boat somehow? If I *am* barking up the wrong tree, what solutions do other people use to make a dvd-9 to dvd-5 backup? I have seen several tools described: lxdvdrip; dvdrip;xdvdshrink;and drip. I'hve had problems with all of these: -drip segfaults; -xdvdshrink doesn't allow multiple audio tracks (so commentaries can't be ripped) and seems to havetrouble with subtitles; - I'm not entirely sure what lxdvdrip is supposedto be doing -- I ran it successfully, but the resulting directory was rather smaller than I expected & I'm not sure how to generate an iso from it; - dvdrip almost always freezes up my user interface & in any case, once it's finished ripping the files don't appear to have been transcoded and I can't tell what precisely I'm meant to do next. anyway, I would really appreciate any hints folks have or links to useful howtos. thanks, matt -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
