Converting DVDs To VCDs Under Unix? 8
This Curious Anonymous Coward asks: "There are many great apps running under others-buggy-OS to rip DVDs and to automatically convert the resulting MPEG to a less space-hungry resolution/bandwidth. These apps basically read the VOBs from the DVD, decrypt them, split audio and video and resample the resulting MPEG to a SVCD compliant resolution. Under Linux I found everything I need to do the same, except for the resampling step. Of course, I don't want to rip DVD I don't own, I just want to be able to burn SVCD to see my favourite movies on my laptop (with no DVD reader), and to delete the HD partition dedicated to the other-buggy-OS."
Doesn't matter, you don't "own" anything ... (Score:1)
The DMCA removed any legal right you have to do this despite consumer protections in the Copyright Law of 1976 and subsequent common law. To due such is a criminal act thanks to the hard lobbying efforts of big business. You don't "own" anything. You have no "right" to anything. Welcome to the "new world."
Fuck you very much MPAA and RIAA. You just nixed our rights as well as a good segment of your market and profit potential at the same time.
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith
Re:Doesn't matter, you don't "own" anything ... (Score:1)
DVD - VCD in winders (Score:1)
Plug DVD svideo, audio into dazzle
Plug Dazzle into PC
Plug svideo out from dazzle into TV
Fire up software...play DVD...hit record and we're good to go.
I thought DVD's were supposed to be a lot harder to copy >=)
Now if they just had software that let me use my wonderful dazzle in Linux!!
Re:Tools for Buggy OS's? (Score:1)
Tools for Buggy OS's? (Score:2)
Joseph Elwell.
Re:"Convert"? (Score:3)
"Convert"? (Score:4)
"man convert" lists "MPEG" as a supported file extension. Have you tried using "convert" to rescale it?
"convert" is part of the ImageMagick utility package, and is included with most Linux distributions.
Some links (Score:4)
The VCD tools (for making VCD images) are availible from here:
http://www.munich-vision.de/vcd/index.html
As for the conversion and DVD issues, anyone else have suggestions?
You may just want to stick with Windows for this - the best encoders are there (Tsunami is great!), and the process is quite a bit more streamlined on that side.
BBK