[vdr] Re: mpeg2 to mpeg2 transcoder ?

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

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From: "Aike J Sommer (AS Media)" <asommer@as-media.com>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: mpeg2 to mpeg2 transcoder ?


> Am Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 10:57 schrieben Sie:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am looking for a simple and fast way to transcode mpeg2 files (e.g.
DVD)
> > to other formatted mpeg2 files.
> > My final destination is, to transcode, let's say an old Edgar Wallace
DVD
> > Movie (from DVD), form its source mpeg2 format to 352x288 Pixel
Mono-Audio
> > Mpeg2 (NOT Mpeg1 !) for saving Disk-Space. No one needs more Resolution
in
> > such old movies anyway, Multichannel Audio the same :-)
> >
> > I tried several tools,  such as "dvd2svcd", finally I found the Roxio
Movie
> > Pack for Windows, but this one is not able to transcode in non-SVCD/DVD
> > formats, and simply ignores to transcode AC-3 to Mpeg-Audio...
> >
> > The Only way I found was to encode Mpeg2 -> AVI (lossless compressed) ->
> > mpeg2 of my flavour with Tmpeg... but this takes a very long time and
very
> > much user interaction... and it runs under Windows :-)
> >
> > I also tried a lot with mplayer, but I didn't find a way yet.
> >
> > Does anyone has some hints ?
>
> as i recall, this should be possible with transcode... just rip ur dvd to
vob
> files and start transcode with the right parameters (which by the way i
dont
> know, sinde i never used it)
>

There's also a transcode frontend called dvd:rip.

Rene



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