[mythtv-users] Cables and more space...ideas?

[gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)]

Ryan Steffes wrote:
> From looking at the source, it looks like a perfect rip just dumps the 
> vob you select into a file.  It should have all the audio and video 
> information available, it largely just changes the extension from VOB 
> and mpg.

hmm, last time i tried, it still is .VOB


> Just removing the extra audio isn't going to save you very 
> much space.  Your files are still going to be multigigabyte.

yes, i know, i'm fine with multi-GB files ... but i want to strip out 
anything i'm not using so i'm not wasting space on stuff i don't care 
about .. i'm more than willing to "waste space" on full video quality, 
however ... i just need to know how to rip the extra audio tracks out


> You should really consider sitting down some afternoon and playing with 
> mencoder's multipass variable bitrate settings in xvid, and seeing if 
> you can find something acceptable smaller, otherwise, there's really no 
> point in bothering at all.

i'd rather leave the video alone and just strip out what i don't want

-g-