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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi to all,</FONT></DIV>
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first of all I would say thank you very much to the authors,
for this wonderful program (Mplayer - Mencoder). I am a newbie in linux and I
tryed a couple of ripping with lavc as codec (I used to do with DivxPro in Win$)
What i should say is that lavc works very very well. I have done some test
ripping movie in only 1 CD. Working for 2 CD is easyer to reach good quality
even for a non good codec but run for 1CD it will show immediately how difficult
could be to obtain good results. With lavc I obtained very good results
even with less bitrate. So thank you very much for this great job. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>What I did not </FONT><FONT size=2>succed is to encode
the credits with a different quantizer; mainly because I did not succed to point
the start frame and the end frames. Here are my command lines:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Rip: mplayer -dvd 1 -dumpstream -dumpfile foo.vob.
</FONT><FONT size=2>This produce a single file >4Gb </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Audio: mencoder foo.vob -aid 129 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi
-oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=128</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Encoding video: mencoder foo.vob -oac copy -o /dev/null -ovc
lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate 916:vpass=1:vhq:v4mv:trell -vop scale
640:272, crop......</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The second pass the same with vpass=2 and -o
final.avi (</FONT><FONT size=2>Here I cutted the vrc_override
options..)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Well, I tryed to seek the start frames by looking at the
time/frames in the shell while Mplayer is running (command: Mplayer
foo.vob) but without success because somewhere in the movie, the time turns
to zero (i.e: by pushing mplayer forward with the right arrow, the
time does not increase linearly); My movie is about 2:34:00 long but at
about 1:29:00 the time turns to zero. In addition if I try to start mplayer from
a point later than 1:29:00 it exit immediately (command mplayer foo.vob -ss
1:35:00 for example) Probably this could be related to the file foo.vob made by
the ripping process. Any hint?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>In conclusion I am asking: how are you doing this job?
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you very much in advance for help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Best Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Roberto</FONT></DIV>
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