12 May
2003
12 May
'03
7:47 a.m.
I have to write some documentation on DVD/VCD
players for Linux. I own
a nice new DVD player (dmesg says it's a LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI
CD/DVD-ROM drive) that works well on my machine, though I did have to
discover a few secrets for glitch-free viewing (e.g. my nVidia card
should have its double-buffering turned off). I'm writing not only about
viewing video discs but also recording and ripping them. Thus, a few
questions for anyone in the LAU community using a DVD player and/or
recorder.
1. What software do you use for viewing DVDs ?
mplayer
2. Do you use that software for watching AVI,
MPEG, or other video
formats ?
mplayer
3. What software do you use for ripping/encoding
DVDs ?
mencoder
4. If you have a DVD recorder, please let me know
how well it works
for you under Linux, what outstanding problems exist, what software you
use, etc.
n/a
5. Overall, how would you rate Linux DVD support,
particularly
compared to Windows or the Mac ?
n/a, but mplayer works fine for me.
I don't own a DVD recorder and I'm curious
about Linux users'
experiences with them.
I've been trying to rip DVDs using the dvd::rip software (based on
transcode) but keep receiving read errors. If anyone has any special
tips for DVD ripping I'm interested in them too.
I use:
mencoder -dvd 1
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$RATE \
-vop crop=$CROP,scale -zoom -xy 640 \
-oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128 \
-o file.avi
I calculate the crop value with:
mencoder -aspect 16:9 -dvd 1 \
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$RATE \
-vop cropdetect,scale -zoom -xy 640 \
-oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128:vol=9 -o /dev/null
Maarten