Filed under: Video, Windows, Open Source
StaxRip: Open source all-in-one DVD ripping
by Jordan Running Dec 29th 2005 at 6:05PM
Yesterday I posted about Elliott Back's How to rip a DVD tutorial and HandBrake Lite, a Mac app for ripping DVDs for your iPod. Apparently this is the week of DVD ripping, 'cause here's another DVD ripping app: StaxRip is a lightweight, open source Windows app for ripping DVDs to several different formats with a minimum of fuss. That includes H.264 and AAC, so this might be the solution for those looking for a Windows equivalent to HandBrake Lite.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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GOD said 9:43PM on 12-29-2005
Anyone know a simple app to make a few MPG files or AVIs into a DVD compatible format? As in I want to burn a DVD using nero and play it on a DVD player.
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AFD said 11:10PM on 12-29-2005
The TMPGEnc products are very streamlined and easy to use for DVD encoding and authoring. TMPGEnc Plus (or XPress) does the encoding to MPEG-2 and TMPEnc DVD Author allows for simple menu creation and turns the .mp2 and audio stream into a .vob file with folders, ready for burning.
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/guide.html
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Eyedropp3r said 11:39PM on 12-29-2005
I've used Nero Vision Express to do that a couple times.
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