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max-232
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 Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: Vamps |
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Hi all!
can anyone please explain me howto use vamps? ...I'm not able to find an howto....please don't speak about k9copy or qVamps....just the usage for command line.
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Massimo |
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nixnut
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read the man page?
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max-232
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ....man vamps gives me "No manual entry for vamps". |
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anthrax_
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| Quote: | What is Vamps?
Vamps was written to make cheap backups of DVDs under Linux. Back in 2003 Metakine published the source code of their M2Requantiser module. The idea was to make use of this great piece of software to create a transcoder for Linux for shrinking the content of a DVD9. This would enable backups on cheap single layer DVDRs (double layer burners weren't even available that time). The Metakine requantizer is pretty fast and so Vamps was designed not to break this outstanding performance.
Vamps builds a wrapper around the requantizer to extract the elementary MPEG2 video stream from the DVD's program stream, feed it through the requantizer and finally re-pack it into the program stream again. Besides this, Vamps allows to select audio and subtitle streams that should be copied into the output stream. This gives another small gain of disk space, since unwanted streams may be discarded.
Summed up, Vamps is only a very basic, but nevertheless essential tool to transcode DVD videos to a smaller size. Vamps does not need to write temporary data files, which is a major pro. Vamps is very fast. The downside is, that Vamps is not capable to make DVD backups on its own.
The latter was motivation enough to continue the work begun with vamps and to bring qVamps into being. qVamps is a GUI, which enables the user to select titles from a DVD, uses Vamps for requantization and create a new DVD. qVamps uses dvdauthor for creation of the new DVD's data structures.
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max-232
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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hey, thanks a lot for replies!
I don't know why it's so difficult to find article and vamps-based scripts for dvd backup...do you know where I can find some example? |
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max-232
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....yes but in the USAGE part there is "Anything to say here? Ok, more content to come. Please don't ask when
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anyway, thanks for your intresting....
if someone is intrested I've found a man page at http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/vamps .
if someone want to post a reply, share knowledges or other, please do! 
Thanks for the moment
Massimo |
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max-232
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Hello all,
I'm back!
I have not found any guide to use vamps....
if someone have experience abuot that, can post a way to use vamps-0.99.2 in command line?
thanks
Massimo |
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