AcidRip – automated front end for MPlayer/Mencoder

Last Updated on July 8, 2023

AcidRip is a Gtk::Perl application for ripping and encoding DVD’s.

This application neatly wraps MPlayer and Mencoder. As well as creating a simple Graphical Interface for those scared of getting down and dirty with Mencoder’s command line interface, it also automates the process in a number of ways.

Acidrip is fundamentally a wrapper application, and therefore its feature set is constrained by Mencoder.

Features include:

• Parses DVD into contents tree.
• Finds the longest title.
• Calculates video bitrate for given filesize.
• Perform a large number of video transformations such as:
  • Scaling.
  • Find black bands and crop them.
  • Color conversion.
  • Bit rate conversion.

Website: sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip
Support: Forums
Developer: Chris Phillips
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Acidrip is written in Perl. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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