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 ...

I have mencoder, transcode, and mjpegtools installed. But i am unable to find a way to demultiplex a mpeg1 or a mpeg2 file. They should be able to do it, no? I am specifically interested in mencoder..

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 ...