[Cialug] DVD transcoding?

[James Shoemaker]

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I think that is what it is called.
> 
> I have a relative that made a DVD of home video for Christmas and he asked
> me if I could make it into a single Avi or MPG file for his mother (CR-ROM,
> no DVD player).  Are there any good sites that describe how to do this?
> What tools should I search on to do this in Linux?

	I would use mencoder and encode to divx, command line something like:

mencoder dvd://1 -vf scale=640:480 -o title2.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc 
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

James