I'll looking into doing some DVD-ripping in linux. For the purposes of this discussion, let's say all the DVDs are unencrypted. Comments and suggestions on any other element of DVD ripping are welcome ...

In the ongoing saga of What doesn't work after the upgrade? I tried to run my logo-overlay script the other day to add the Linux Journal logo to a video and, as you may have guessed, it didn't work.

MEncoder is a wonderful little command-line utility included with MPlayer for encoding video. It can take as its source file any video format that MPlayer can read, including Windows Media, MPEG-2 ...

I think the w32codecs package only contains items for decompressing video, not compressing it. Transcode might do what you want, but I wouldn't put money on it. You're probbaly better off just ...