Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:42, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 18:42 +0300, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
Dear gentlemen and ladies! Let me repeat what my problem is, it is not
how to listen or look at the content of the DVD, instead of that
On 7/24/06, Heikki Pesonen <fossiili@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wanted to convert the VOB-files to format which my
Windows-program Pinacle Studio could read or
find Linux-programs which I could install with my newbie
skills to Fedora Core 5 able to edit my movies and to make a
video CD or DVD which I could send to my sister even having an
old DVD-player box and on old TV.
It's possible that mencoder would be able to convert your VOB files over
to an acceptable format. Mencoder is part of the Mplayer toolbox.
Not only possible. I did it on several occasions so far, and can say that
mplayer suite (including mencoder) is very powerful, at least for my taste.
The drawback is that it isn't point&click, you are required to read a
nontrivial amount of docs and man pages in order to set up all the switches
the way you need.
And the examples are not all that easy to follow. Allot of trial and
error if you want to do more than convert to an AVI. If you are going
to use some other software for editing later, then I find that DVD::rip
is nicer.
Also, mencoder can do some basic filtering and processing of the image during
the conversion. Things like resizing, flipping, cropping, adding sound etc.
So you do not need to use Pinacle if all you wish to do is to convert the
movie from 16:9 to 4:3, for example. However, if you need to cut&paste the
movie or something more complicated, then...
I have used mencoder to take a PAL DVD and convert it to NTSC which
included resizing and changing the timebase.
You can use mencoder to cut and paste but you have to do it from command
line and this is not that easy.
I can also suggest using Sony Vegas instead of Pinacle. Not as powerful, but
*much* easier to use. At least for me.
But the first thing you need to
do is make sure your VOB files are not encrypted.
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but could anyone explain me the concept of
enryption of a movie (or any multimedia, in general). I mean, why is that
useful?
If I can watch the movie using the original dvd, ie if some sequence of images
can be displayed on my screen, then it is in principle always possible to put
that data not to the screen, but to a, say, file, and reprocess it later. How
to do it is another story, but in principle it has to be possible. (The Linux
philosophy -- everything is a stream of bytes...).
So why encrypt the data if it is intended for the end-user to see unencrypted?
I mean, you can't stop him from copying it if he is allowed to see it...
HD-DVD's have copied this way. One frame at a time with a script.
Best regards, :-)
Marko
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