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AcidRip: Simple GUI for DVD to AVI
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AcidRip
presents a clean Gnome GUI for converting a
DVD directly to an avi file (without temporary copies of
the DVD). Generally, creating a 1GB file for every hour of video
produces a good quality backup. If you specify more than a single file
then Acidrip will split at chapter breaks (but you
can also, later on, use avisplit to split a video into
smaller chunks, and avimerge to combine video clips--see
Section 96.3). Have a look at the
Queue tab of acidrip for the
mencode command line that is generated and run.
Figure 28.1:
The AcidRip interface for converting a DVD to AVI,
showing a sample DVD with the longest title selected and File
size reset to 1700.
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In short:
- Startup acidrip and it will read the DVD and select
the longest title--be patient and pay attention to the status bar
at the bottom since it may take a few seconds while it determines
information about the DVD;
- Change the Track title if you like (this is used as the
filename stem - the %T);
- Choose the File size and # Files. Perhaps
1000 for each hour of video to get a reasonable Bits/Px
(about 0.2) on the Video tab;
- Set Info to name the movie;
- Select a Subtitle if desired;
- On the Video tab, click the Detect button for
cropping to the correct size;
- On the Video tab, check that the Scale option
is off so that you get the original size;
- On the Preview tab you can choose to watch a bit of a
preview of the resulting movie;
- When you are ready, click the Start button and over
the next few hours the work will be done. Note that the main window
collapses to a progress window while the work is being done.
There is a bit of a strange interaction between setting the number of
files and the file size, and the Bits/Px value. Bits/Px changes if
you change the 700 to 1400 with 1 file. But change 1 file to 2 files
at 700 and the Bits/Px do not seem to change? Should be the same as
1400 by 1 file, and it is if you change the 1400 back to 700 and 2
files!
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