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Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-03-29 11:56. Gnome Multimedia
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Linux.com reviews Thoggen: Thoggen is a new DVD ripper/backup-tool for Linux that encodes video into the free Ogg Theora format. Unlike its rivals, Thoggen is easy to use, and its built-in support for the Theora codec instead of the patent-restricted MPEG-4 and derivatives makes it worth looking at.

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Compressed DVD format?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2006-03-31 02:04.

Is there tool that lets me keep all of the DVD features, while reducing the size of the rip? Basically, I would like to do a raw rip like dvdbackup does and the just recode the .VOB files into a more efficient format. (But still have all the subtitles and DVD navigation features.) Optionally, I would also like to be able to drop the most useless chapters from the rip.

Of course, all this presupposes that there is a DVD player (such as ogle) around that will be happy with the video being in a different format.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

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