DVD compression

[Corey Edwards]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:25 -0600, Jared Bellows wrote:
> 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.

Have you looked at dvd::rip? I'm no expert on video, but I've used it to
copy DVDs to VCD and AVI with decent success. It's endlessly
configurable but the defaults seem to be reasonable.

Corey