Splitting DVD-9 video to DVD-5

[Robin Laing]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:20 -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
> 
>>you can also check out gopchop at http://gopchop.org/ to see if that
>>might help you
> 
> 
> Have you tried this, and how did you install it?
> 
> It depends on mpeg2dec, so went looking for it, and found it as a .tgz
> on sourceforge.  It fails to compile.  Actually, it fails
> the ./configure before compiling, so I don't know if it does compile:
> 
> e.g.  configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> 
> For what it's worth, my interests are different than the original
> poster:  Tidying up my own recordings from a domestic DVD video
> recorder.  You either miss the start of what you want to record, or end
> up with extra rubbish before and after what you want.
> 

I have mpeg2dec on my computer via rpm with FC4.  I got it from Dries.
   dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/


I have used mencoder to build DVD's in the past and convert files but 
I am no expert.  In fact, I have to learn how to convert a PAL DVD to 
NTSC for work.

-- 
Robin Laing