[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD encoding

[Aaron Peterson]

>> Hi everybody,
>> I've been looking around for some informations about DVD encoding but I
>> couldn't get enough. Is there a way, using mencoder, to reencode the
>> main title of a DVD only a bit. Just enough to store into a 4.7Gb DVD-R.
>> The problem is that I have to backup a DVD onto a DVD-R but the main
>> title itself is more than 4.7 Gb.

>http://www.dvd2one.com/ <- This is what you search. It doesn't even
>reencode, it adjusts some parameters. Very fast.

i'm still curious if mplayer/mencoder can perhaps be used to fill the same
function, albeit more slowly possibly?  it is often easier for me to use
the software i already have, and don't mind the wait if i can type a
command, hit enter, and walk away till it's done.

aaron