Replacement for "Fair Use Wizard"?

[Robin Laing]

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?
> 
> I do not want something where multiple apps are required 
> (one to extract the VOBs, one to do the conversion, etc.)
> 
> I do not want to have to have to pass several arguments to
> the application at the command line, although I have no problem
> with a command-line application.
> 
> The application must have the ability to create one DivX file
> automatically from a feature-length movie, and to create several
> individual DivX files if the DVD contains episodes, such as 
> "The Simpsons."
> 
> Does such an application exist?
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 

Not that I have seen.

What can be done is to write a script to do this with mplayer and 
mencoder.  It isn't hard and it is fun to learn and fire those little 
synapses within the brain.


-- 
Robin Laing