I do not consider myself a multimedia novice, but I still only had a vague idea what the various options exposed in dvd::rip would accomplish. That said looking at the current rippers out there the either are very targeted at a specific target (like Thoggen) or have a GUI which I think is unnecessarily complex for the average user ( dvd::rip).

A simple transcoder application would probably be a better choice to get us started. Pitivi would fit that role, but its a complex application which I think is still some way away from being a tool for everyone.

The first being that we really need an relatively commonly used application using GStreamer to test and make sure our muxers and encoders keep working. None of the various Linux rippers seemed to support this combination however and trying to use gst-launch I discovered that the mpeg ps muxer from gst-ffmpeg did not seem to work to well.Īs part of this process I got reminded of a couple of things. After some trial and error I learned that MPEG PS was the only way to combine AC3 audio and H264 video into a file and have the PS3 be able to read it. My main goal was to keep the AC3 audio intact and use the best video codec possible and at the same time have it working on the PS3. Spent some time early this week trying to figure out how to get my NTSC DVD’s ripped and transcoded into a format I could store and play on my PS3.

Ffmpeg gui stabilize