Fast and efficient.

[mzilikazi]

Wow MakeMKV is in a word Fabulous! Thanks for making this available.

OS: Debian Sid
Hardware:

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# inxi
CPU[-Dual core Intel Pentium Dual T2390 (SMP) clocked at Min:1067.000Mhz Max:1867.000Mhz-] Kernel[-2.6.33-2.dmz.7-liquorix-amd64 x86_64-] Up[-1 day-] Mem[-1720.9/3013.9MB-] HDD[-120.0GB(61.8% used)-] Procs[-175-] Client[-Shell-] inxi[-1.3.14-]

No build issues and no failed rips to date although that is only 6 SD DVD's so far. What impressed me most was how quickly MakeMKV does its work. Wait, no....it was the fact that my machine was nearly bored while ripping Avatar SD.

Well done.

[crowfax]

Always glad to have more Linux people around!

What applications (if any) do you use for encoding to different formats? I'd fiddled with Handbrake but it doesn't keep the subtitles.

[skittle]

crowfax: When I re-encode, I do it by hand.

I have x264 compiled with FFmpegSource/lavf input for direct encoding of most formats. There is a patch for x264 in the works that can do cropping and resizing too, but it doesnt work against latest git.
So if I need to resize or crop, I pipe from mplayer to x264.

in either case, I then remux all streams with MKVmergeGUI.

IMO this is the best (and easiest) way, as I always know i have latest x264, and I know exactly what options are being used.

[crowfax]

Would you do a how-to? I'm sure plenty of people would find it interesting.

[skittle]

Yes, I can do a howto, will put it on the faq page and mkv processing section later.

will cover compiling x264 with ffms2 suport, and piping from mplayer method. note that this method will work in windows and osx too... but probably wont need to compile your own stuff.

[crowfax]

Great, thanks!

[mzilikazi]

Always glad to have more Linux people around!

What applications (if any) do you use for encoding to different formats? I'd fiddled with Handbrake but it doesn't keep the subtitles.

Usually I just rip DVD 9>5. Now that MakeMKV is here (well... more specifically now that I am aware it is here) I'll be ripping to mkv for a media player attached to an LCD tv. Occasionally I'll want to re-encode the mkv's to mpg for DVD. This can be done rather easily with tovid however at this time you can only hardcode the subtitles in and it is not possible to have selectable subs nor can you turn the subs off.

New tovid release 0.32 as of 04.25.10 and supposedly 0.33 is to be expected soon.

http://code.google.com/p/tovid/
http://groups.google.com/group/tovid-users?pli=1