[ale] DVD -> DivX

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Wed Sep 10 19:29:59 EDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:54:26PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm installing a PC that I will being using as a 
> media center.  It will server up my MP3s and DVD
> movies as DivX.  Does anyone here have any software
> that can be used to eaisly convert DVD movies into DivX
> format?  I plan on using this as my daughters machine so she
> can watch any cartoon at anytime.  I had in the past used
> a ripper on RH 7.3 but I could never get the sound to match the
> video quite right.

There's a script called myvcd that will do this.  It uses mplayer and
mencoder for the bulk of the work.  All other software dependencies are
in the help text.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33246
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