[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD encoding

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:49:34PM -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> >> 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.

Look, you don't want to. DVD2ONE will preserve everything about your
DVD, and leave the quality very close to the original. If you really
insist, you can encode a copy with mencoder, but you'll lose all your
menus, extras, etc. and get much lower quality from reencoding.

Rich