The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 28/07/2020 17:40, Graeme wrote:

A long time since I have copied a DVD film, and have forgotten which
program I used! Any thoughts?

Something basic to copy a commercial DVD so that I can watch it direct
from PC rather than faff about finding the DVD. No need for super
high quality - just need to end up with a 720p avi or mp4 file,
usually around 800MB. I already have Windows and VLC media players,
which may suit?

Thanks.

VLC will do it but Handbrake is better

FFMPEG is better.

The GUI tools just get in the way.

If something has quirks, you need overrides to fix it.

I got NVENC working on FFMPEG the other day, on Ubuntu 2004,
using the source in the tree and just recompiling with
different options to ./configure. I've been trying to
fix that for eons, and now it works. And NVENC under Linux
is faster than NVENC under Windows, which was the reason
I wanted to test that stuff. It still doesn't go as fast
as the developer at NVidia said it would.

Paul