[dundee] DVD Encoding

[Kris Davidson]

For ripping DVDs the only thing I've ever really used is Handbrake, the 
only time I've had it crash on me was when I had some dodgy 
overclocking settings. I suppose you could try mencoder or ffmpeg is 
it's just general encoding.

On Fri 15 Jun 2012 07:31:05 BST, Stuart McCulloch Anderson wrote:
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> Morning everyone,
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> I've been using Handbrake as my encoder of choice for a while now and I'm now looking for an alternative.
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> Handbrake has served my well in the past but I'm fed up of how much error checking I have to encorporate into my workflow. For example; did handbrake crash?, was a zero byte file produced, is the resulting file the right length.
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> What ever I replace handbrake with it has to run from a command line because the machines i use are all headless and ideally it would support H.245 codex cause that's what everything I already have is encoded as. 5.1 seround sound is also vital.
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> Anyone got any suggestions for me? Or personal experience getting handbrake to be a little more reliable?