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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>All
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I am contracting
for a company that is ripping it's DVD stock into AVI files compressed with
XviD. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I am taking the
VOB files off a DVD using DVD Decrypter in IFO mode to get one large VOB
file.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>We are using
VirtualDubMpeg on Windows to do the transcoding (using this because the
transcoding is highly scriptable and most of our automated system is already
built around this, we have a rack of AMD64 machines already built and
running). </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>However
VirtualDubMpeg doesn't properly handle VOB files (sigh), but it does handle
mpeg-ts files perfectly well. About 30% of the DVDs we are ripping are
affected by audio / video sync issues because of the deficiencies of the
VirtualDubMpeg code to handle VOB files. However, we are stuck with using
VirtualDub because we already have so much of our automated encoding harness
built (all of it really).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Therefore, I'm
looking to mencoder to transform our one large VOB file from the DVD into
"clean" mpeg-ts file for VirtualDubMpeg to handle. That way we can rip a
DVD into a VOB file, have a script run it through mencoder, and then through
VirtualDub, and wala! We have clean XviD files in multiple bit
rates.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>First off, does
mencoder have the ability to turn VOB mpeg-ps files into mpeg-ts files without a
loss of any bits?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Second, I am
looking for an mencoder expert to hire for a few hours to teach us how to do
this if possible. We pay $50 / hour for your time. Please contact me
private to discuss the consulting opportunity.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Thank
you!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=053342208-04032005><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>Andrew</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>