DVD compression

[Jared Bellows]

On 5/23/07, adam fisher <afisher at circlepix.com> wrote:
>
> So I am looking at building my media server and have tried a few different
> products. I have loved the clonedvd/anydvd setup for burning to a dvd.
> Howver, for my media server I was hoping to get it down to about 2 to 2.5gigs and still maintain good quality. I have gone through all the afterdawn,
> doom9, and digest stuff and just don't want to have to use 5-6 different
> programs. Any recommendations on a do it all software that will get the
> compression that I need. Looking at either divx of xvid most likely.


I know what you mean with 5-6 different programs, but I've found that they
are all scriptable (at least the ones I am using). I wrote a script to go
through a specificed directory and do the conversion of all VOBs to DivX. If
you don't want to do that, you can also look into the DivX Converter. It is
supposed to convert VOBs into DivX. I haven't tried it myself so can't say
how well it works.

Jared