Replacement for "Fair Use Wizard"?

Shawn Milo shawnmilo at runbox.com
Sun Sep 26 02:28:36 UTC 2004


Florin Andrei wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 12:18, Shawn Milo wrote:
>  
>
>>There is an application called "Fair Use Wizard," which 
>>will extract a DVD movie into a DivX file. It is fully
>>automated, only requiring the user to specify an output file
>>size (for quality selection) before getting to work. 
>>
>>Unfortunately, the program is only for Windows.  Is there
>>a Linux replacement for this?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, it is called dvd::rip. It is based on transcode.
>
>http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
>
>It is GUI-oriented but it can be used in command-line mode. However, GUI
>is recommended, because some operations are always required when
>transcoding from DVD to DivX, such as cropping, scaling, etc. and those
>cannot be done efficiently in a text console.
>Everything, from dumping the VOBs to burning the DivX onto a CD, can be
>done from the dvd::rip GUI.
>
>You could use transcode to do all work, since dvd::rip is just a
>front-end, but it's easier and quicker with dvd::rip.
>
>  
>
Thanks for the answer. Is there a way to install this using yum?

Shawn





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