DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux (Changelog)

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last modified on August 23, 2002

9. Changelog

Add chapter about subtitles and letterboxing
Add chapter about DVD -> (S)VCD transcoding
Add more documentation about what to clip when you have letterboxed material
Add information about using DivX5 despite its inferior quality because a lot of people want to use it :)
Add chapter about including multiple audio tracks in an AVI

August 23, 2002:

Changed the mencoder command line from -nosound to -oac copy.
Added a hint about avidemux in the 'tricks' chapter.
Added -m to vobcopy's command line.
Finally changed my recommendation from vqmin=1 to vqmin=2 as lavc might produce buggy files with 1.
Fixed a lot spelling mistakes (thanks to ispell :)).

First translation of this guide into German by Nicolai Lissner

June 3, 2002:

Changed mencoder ... /space/*vob to cat /space/*vob | mencoder ... - for the audio processing (thanks to K. Hall).
Added a note about region codes as they are a source for cryptic error messages during the ripping process (thanks to Bradley Alexander).
Added a note about transcode's new export module for libavcodec, export_ffmpeg4.

May 5, 2002:

Fixed the glossary entry about P/I/B frames and GOPs (thanks to Christoph Lampert)
Added a subchapter about aspect ratios (thanks to Christoph Lampert)
Fixed some typos (VBR -> ABR and others, thanks to various readers who reported them)
Fixed mencoder command lines for multiple vob files (thanks to Christoph Terhechte and Frank Otto)

May 3, 2002:

Fixed vpass=1 which should be vpass=2 in several places (thanks to Markus Liebl)

May 2, 2002:

Added explanations for transcode's command line options
Added warnings about scaling pictures up (thanks to Peter Schuller)
Added vqmin and vqmax to the recommended options for libavcodec (thanks to Peter Schuller)
Added some links, fixed some typos

May 1, 2002:

Added explanations about audio and video codecs
Fixed a lot of grammatical errors (thanks to Doug Shea)
Added this changelog ;)
Made two versions available - one big file or or file per chapter
Guide available as one tar ball for download
Provided an explanation and some sample images for interlaced video (thanks to Jason Smith)
Started a glossary (thanks to Robos, creator of vobcopy)
Added some links, fixed some errors

April 30, 2002:

Initial release

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this guide was written by Moritz Bunkus