- Thoggen
infobox software
caption = Thoggen main window
latest_release_version = 0.7.1
latest_release_date =12 June 2008
operating_system =Linux
genre =DVD-Rip
license =GNU General Public License
website = http://www.thoggen.net/|Thoggen is a
DVD ripper forLinux within theGNOME project. It is based onGStreamer andGtk+ . The current version can back up DVDs by encoding them using theOgg Theora videocodec .Thoggen is designed to be easy and straight-forward to use. It attempts to hide the complexity many other transcoding tools expose and tries to offer sensible defaults that work well for most people most of the time.
Features
* Encodes into
Ogg /Theora video
* Based on the GStreamer multimedia framework
* Supports title preview, picture cropping and resizing.
* Language Selection for audio track
* Can encode from local directory with video DVD filesWeaknesses
*Thoggen is slow.
"The Theora implementation used is far from optimized, and at full DVD resolution, encoding can slow down to the single-digit frames-per-second count, meaning several hours are required." [ [http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/22/2124208 Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home] - Linux.com review of Thoggen (March 29, 2006) ]
*Thoggen can "only" encode video into the Theora codec. But since the software is based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, it is fairly easy to add additional encoding formats/codecs in future versions. [ [http://www.thoggen.net Homepage] - How is it different from all the others?]
*Thoggen includes a feature to "make video certain quality". However, the numerics to choose from (ranging from 0 to 63) for the encoding process are less-than-obvious to interpret for users. [ [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.thoggen.devel/167 Meaning of "make video certain quality"] - From the thoggen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list ]
*Subtitles are not yet supportedSee also
*
Theora
*MEncoder
*List of GNOME applications
*List of video editing software References
External links
* [http://www.thoggen.net Official website]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/thoggen SourceForge project page]
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