Hey guys,
I have a school project coming up where I'm gonna need to rip sections of movies from a DVD and put them onto a VCD. If I use acidrip (at least the v that I have) it really only lets me rip into avi, and to put them onto a VCD, I need mpg1 or 2 right?

So, I need help with Mencode. can someone help me with the options and stuff I need to rip a specific sequence (from time point a to time point b) as an mpeg 2?

thanks!

. . .shawn

Well, I found tovid! That'll help me get the results I want. Now, the next question is, how do I rip a specific time sequence off a DVD instead of the whole chapter?

thanks.

sadly ripping a time slot from a dvd with mencoder isn't possible. unfortunately the attitude of the mplayer developers says that rather than their dvd seeking code being way way out, always seeking to roughly 25% sooner than it should... there's a problem with the dvd i do it with. there is therefore a probelm with *every* DVD i have, and incoluding other users reporting this... every dvd in the known universe. funny how other players can do this just fine innit?

but anyway.... you can rip whole chapters or the entire movie with mencoder no problem, i'd then recommend once you've got it as a standard avi file or mpg file, use mencoder to only copy the time you want (it works fine when not using a dvd)

thanks for trying acidrip btw.

oh also, you might like to look at the transcode utilities to do this... more cryptic, but they are able to do it i believe.

Yeah, I got tovid that'll convert the movies from avi to mpeg. But NOW I'm having problems getting k3b to burn then as a vcd. K3b generates a .bin and a .cue file, but then when it goes to write it to the disc, it just ejects and says it suceeded.

any ideas there? I can burn normal CDs and iso images, just not .bin and .cue.

video dvd::rip will do the vcd and svcd stuff for you and can burn them

I couldn't get dvd::rip to work. I'm having some issue with gtk and what not. When I try to install or compile it, I keep getting errors saying that it's missing dependants. When I try to install those, I get more and more errors that say I need one thing, but I need the other to install it. Vicious cycle.

Should I just upgrade to mdk 10.1?

You need devel packages for GTK and X11 (XFree86) . Also you need transcode and perl to make dvd::rip to work. I suggest using raw video, huffyuv, or any lossless video compression because you do not want to use lossy compression during the editing process. If you use lossy compression during the editing process, it will make the final very blocky.

mencoder can do what you wanted but it is not very good making mpeg files. I suggest ffmpeg because it has built-in settings for VCD, SVCD, and DVD file formats.

I do not know what the Mandrake developers do to their version 10 series because version 9 did not have the problems that 10 has. Try another distribution like Slackware or Fedora Core 2.