[MEncoder-users] Tutorial?

[Steve Dibb]

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Steve Dibb a écrit :
>>
>> Not to troll in response, but there is a lot of documentation out 
>> there that covers how to do this in detail, some of which I've 
>> written myself.  What do you mean, exactly, by comprehensive?  I'm 
>> curious to find out what can be done to explain things a bit better.
>
> Right, here goes then. I suggest the following. Pick your favourite 
> doc (I know quite a bunch), and then I'll try and encode some DVDs 
> into DivX following them... and describe the problems I'm eventually 
> having. 

Well, I need to backpedal a bit.  The one I'm talking about[1] covers 
generic mencoder usage, and doesn't go heavily into DVD ripping, since 
(1) there already are a lot of docs out there and (2) some nice GUIs if 
you don't want to fiddle with CLI arguments.

Either way, it doesn't seem fair if you're saying there's no 
comprehensive documentation and then putting the burden on me for 
finding it.

I see the DVD ripping guides split up into one of three categories:

1. They give you detailed examples without explanation
2. They give you simple examples with lots of explanation, but few options
3. They tell you which GUIs to use.

My vote is that #2 is the best approach for someone who really wants to 
learn how to do it by understanding what options are being passed and 
what they are doing.  A noob doesn't need to know about all the 
wonderful advanced options anyway, because they'll just end up shooting 
themselves in the foot trying to implement them.  IMO, it's much better 
to start with the basics and go from there.

Steve

1. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide