[mythtv-users] DVD -> svideo on pvr250

[Mark Hetherington]

>
> Not that this provides a Myth solution, but this is all so much easier
> on Windows.  Use something like CladDVD to rip the main VOB file
> unencrypted to the hard disk.  Use VirtualDubMod to reencode to Divx or
> xvid or whatever.  I've found that many kids DVDs, especially Disney do
> not reencode well without audio drifting so I just leave those as VOB
> files on the hard disk.  They play back just as well with mplayer or
> xine as xvid/divx do, just a little more disk space.
>
???
MythDVD has a ripping component, it can either rip as a is, or transcode to 
MPEG4 (I believe xvid). You don't even need to leave the mythfrontend. On 
debian I just did "apt-get install mythdvd", and there it is in the menu. 
Tell it what your dvd device is, where to rip videos, and you have a rip menu 
option. I used it a few times, but it doesn't allow you as much tweaking as 
other programs.
	Which brings us to "DVD::RIP" which will do rip and transcode on the fly, so 
you don't need to rip the VOB to disk first. It does automated Two pass 
encoding, distributed encoding (i.e. do the number crunching on multiple PCs 
via a network).
There are plenty of other solutions out there for linux as well, from command 
line scripts (if your logging in remotely), to full GUIs like transcode. This 
sort of thing is so much easier on Linux, especially when all the tools come 
built in to a lot of popular distributions.