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dvd::rip

dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing, swissknife, transcode and many other tools.

Features include:

• Rip to harddisk, on the fly or from an existent DVD image
• Select audio track(s), viewing angle(s), multitple titles
• Rip as much audio tracks as you like into one AVI/OGG/SVCD file
• Supports nearly all of transcode's video codecs, e.g: divx4, divx5, xvid, xvidcvs, ffmpeg, fame, opendivx and mpeg2enc
• DivX/Xvid multipass encoding
• (S)VCD modes, with multiple audio tracks for SVCD
• Integrated video bitrate calculator based on target size resp. number of discs
• Automatic splitting of the target files for best fit on the specified number of discs
• Several deinterlace filter presets
• Audio AC3 and PCM passthrough
• Audio MP3 encoding
• Audio volume maximizing and/or range compression
• OGG/Vorbis support, quality and bitrate based, adjusting the optimal video bitrate after audio transcoding in quality mode
• WAV file creation from a selected audio track
• Subtitle rendering and vobsub creation
• Support for all transcode video filters, with realtime configuration and video preview
• Live video transcoding preview window
• Chapter mode: one file per chapter
• Use your favorite movie player for preview
• Provide frame clipping, resizing and final clipping
• Powerful auto adjusting of all clip & zoom parameters
• Adjust clipping area using drag and drop
• dvd::rip's zoom calculator let you adjust every possible parameter, if you like to do so
• Two resize modes: fast and high quality resizing
• Simple but easy to use CD burning facility
• Last but not least a comprehensive cluster mode, which let you use all your Linux/Unix hardware for parallel encoding

Last updated 31 Oct, 2005