On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stroller<strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:31, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Stroller<strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>> However right now I don't want to burn to disk - only to grab an image of >>> the disk for ripping to file.mp4 type movie files. >> >> For this purpose I highly recommend dvd::rip. There are many things >> involved beyond simply copying the files from the disc. Deinterlacing, >> audio sync, cropping and scaling, etc. dvd::rip handles it with >> relative ease. It even supports clustering so if you have more than 1 >> computer they can combine power to transcode your movies faster. > > Have you tried HandbrakeCLI?
Nope, I had never even heard of it before this thread. I just Googled it and it looks interesting. It appears to have a lot of presets that would eliminate the need to manually select codecs and filters etc. Try it and let us know how the videos look. :) > Is it possible to use dvd::rip completely without the GUI? Yes, though you might want (or need) to use the GUI to determine which settings you want to put into the configuration file. There are a lot of options to control container format, deinterlacing, video and audio codecs, bitrate, framerate, encoding passes, cropping, scaling, normalizing, audio channels, subtitles, etc. If one of the presets in Handbrake is satisfactory to you, then it seems like that is probably the far easier path to take for your desires. I think they are both just wrappers for the usual set of tools so let whatever works best win.
