Mencoder DVD -> AVI solution...FWIW

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Hi all…not claiming to be an expert by a long shot but a few months ago I went through the pain of trying to nail down a solution to get DVDs ripped through my OpenSUSE system and playable with no further conversion on my Creative Zen. I had problems with A/V sync, until I got the right settings figured out.

I came up with a script that front-ends Mencoder. This works great for my Zen, and should be able to be easily tweaked for many other applications. Here’s the link:

Converting DVD to AVI for portable media players, under Linux

Hope this helps someone who may search in the future…

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Thanks, man! By the way, what size files does this thing spit out?

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You’re welcome :slight_smile:

Resulting AVI filesize is dependent on a few things: source file size, output screen size, video bitrate and audio bitrate being the most critical.

As an example, the movie Minority Report when I encode it to 320:240 (for my Zen) and using a video bitrate of 512K and audio of 128K (fixed), the resulting AVI is around 672M. The original DVD content was probably around 6.5G