On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 15:03 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
OGMRip does work great but it takes forever. I have a Phenom 2 965 @ 3.6 and so far from an iso image to avi has taken 3.5 hours and is still not completed.
All the work is being done by mencode. Do a "pgrep -fl mencode" while ogmrip is running to see the large number of options it applies. Many of these can be tuned (e.g. number of passes in video conversion) and would make a difference in speed. In fact you could just capture the mencode command line as a Shell script and play with it that way.
I converted a 4GB VOB set to 1.2GB avi. It did take a while but not as much as 3.5 hours on my Core 2 Dual @ 3.2 (and I still used 2 passes).
I was reading about handbrake and apparently if I can change the codec from ffmpeg to another codec (not sure what one yet) it will handle avi files as output.
ffmpeg can certainly produce avi, so maybe you don't need to change it. I did try handbrake a while back but it didn't really do what I wanted at the time (converting flv to avi).
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