Replacement for "Fair Use Wizard"?

[Florin Andrei]

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.

-- 
Florin Andrei

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