Drip 0.9.0 review (linux)

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Drip is a DVD to DIVX conversion application

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
OS: Linux
File size: 802K
Developer: Jarl van Katwijk      
Price: $0.00
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Drip 0.9.0 is graphics software developed by Jarl van Katwijk.
Drip is a DVD to DIVX conversion application. It's made up out two applications: a DVD reader and a DIVX encoder. The reader is a GUI for the GNOME environment, the DIVX encoder a text mode tool.

You wont have to learn to use the textmode tool, because the GUI also is a frontend for it. Drip is not yet usable for NTSC (Region1) DVDs because those are prepared differently as PAL DVDs.

Here are some key features of "Drip":

  • Utilisation of avifile encoding, so much avifile codecs support, o.a. MSMPEG4, OpenDIVX and Xvid encoding support
  • MP3 audio encoding, also dual channel.
  • DVD reading, based on libraries libdvdread and libdvdcss
  • Subpictures overlaying (not as seperate data)
  • Automatic clipping, blurring and scaling of video stream
  • Deinterlacing of PAL video (Not for interlaced NTSC material, but helps a little)
  • DVDdb support and DVD header pasring for automatic DIVX naming
  • Terminal only encoding ('dripencoder')
  • Plugin filters for audio and video.
  • Many other options and logic for ONE RUN divx creation


    Requierments:
  • A recent version (1.2 or later) of the GNOME environment.
  • nasm and automake-1.5 or later to compile.
  • A Unix OS with GNU development and DVD support (UDF or ISO9660), like linux 2.4
  • libdvdcss-1.2.2 for handling DVD data.
  • libdvdread-0.9.3 for parsing DVD disk info.
  • For mpeg2 and a52 decoding, install both libmpeg2 0.2.1 and liba52
  • xvid 0.9.2
  • avifile 0.7.34 or later for divx;-) encoding.
  • Image Magick for the ImageMagick filter.
  • libXML2.
  • gcc 3.2.x to compile.
  • libmpeg2 0.3.1


    Limitations:
  • NTSC deinterlacing.
  • Complete PCM handling. PCM audio tends to go out of sync with current code. Need more testing material..
  • Chapter handling. Drip offers Program Chain and angle selection, but not seperate chapters.
    Drip 0.9.0 supports english interface languages and works with Linux.

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