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2009-10-11
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Very useful, I was able to watch a couple of DVDs and TV programmes on a recent flight! 
I did find a couple of problems with some conversions. In one case, converting a DVD, I got the German rather than English soundtrack. In another, converting a TV programme (recorded on a Topfield PVR), the audio description track was picked rather than the normal audio. So, any hints on how to work out how to specify the correct audio track, when the default settings don't work? (In most cases, for both DVD and recorded TV, the default options for tablet-encode worked fine.)
I did find a couple of problems with some conversions. In one case, converting a DVD, I got the German rather than English soundtrack. In another, converting a TV programme (recorded on a Topfield PVR), the audio description track was picked rather than the normal audio. So, any hints on how to work out how to specify the correct audio track, when the default settings don't work? (In most cases, for both DVD and recorded TV, the default options for tablet-encode worked fine.)
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2009-10-13
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You can also do it in one step using handbrake. I open the DVD in Handbrake (which has a windows version...I'm doing it in Linux), and do the following:
Change the format to mkv (you can probably leave it as mp4, I believe mplayer can handle this as well)
Picture tab: Set the video to 400 and let the vertical resolution default,
Audio tab: Audio codec -> mp3 (lame)
Click start, then wait for the output. It will be larger than the 400-500MB stated above, but the quality will be really good. If you need a smaller file, you can adjust the slide under Constant Quality (mine defaults to RF:20 (61%)) or set the bitrate or target size.
--vr
Change the format to mkv (you can probably leave it as mp4, I believe mplayer can handle this as well)
Picture tab: Set the video to 400 and let the vertical resolution default,
Audio tab: Audio codec -> mp3 (lame)
Click start, then wait for the output. It will be larger than the 400-500MB stated above, but the quality will be really good. If you need a smaller file, you can adjust the slide under Constant Quality (mine defaults to RF:20 (61%)) or set the bitrate or target size.
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2009-10-13
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Originally Posted by AndyM
Hmm. You can force the audio tracks by using -m and referring to the aid documentation for mplayer/mencoder.
I did find a couple of problems with some conversions. In one case, converting a DVD, I got the German rather than English soundtrack. In another, converting a TV programme (recorded on a Topfield PVR), the audio description track was picked rather than the normal audio. So, any hints on how to work out how to specify the correct audio track, when the default settings don't work? (In most cases, for both DVD and recorded TV, the default options for tablet-encode worked fine.)
tablet-encode tries to do the right thing by looking at the value of $LANG. The output of mplayer -identify dvd:// would be useful, and the value of $LANG.
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2009-10-20
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Originally Posted by Jaffa
I think I've found the problem; I didn't have 'mplayer' installed, so the tablet-encode script emitted some cryptic errors, and did the best it could (which was fine, sometimes). Now I've got mplayer, it seems to be working fine. I haven't tried again with the same DVD that I had problems with before, but when I find it, I'll check it.
Hmm. You can force the audio tracks by using -m and referring to the aid documentation for mplayer/mencoder.
tablet-encode tries to do the right thing by looking at the value of $LANG. The output of mplayer -identify dvd:// would be useful, and the value of $LANG.
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2009-10-21
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CloneDVD mobile from Slysoft has an n800 automatic setting - very handy.
HTH,
Andrew
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