Thoggen
Thoggen is a DVD ripper for Linux within the GNOME project. It is based on GStreamer and GTK+. Thoggen can back up DVDs by re-encoding them using the Ogg Theora video codec.
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| Stable release | 0.7.1
/ 12 June 2008 |
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| Repository |  |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | DVD-Rip |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://www.thoggen.net/ |
Thoggen is designed to be easy and straightforward to use. It attempts to hide the complexity many other transcoding tools expose and tries to offer sensible defaults that work well for most people most of the time.
Features
Weaknesses
- Thoggen is slow.
The Theora implementation used is far from optimized, and at full DVD resolution, encoding can slow down to the single-digit frames-per-second count, meaning several hours are required."[1]
- Thoggen can only encode video into the Theora codec. But since the software is based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, it is fairly easy to add additional encoding formats/codecs in future versions.[2]
- Thoggen includes a feature to "make video certain quality". However, the numerics to choose from (ranging from 0 to 63) for the encoding process are less-than-obvious to interpret for users.[3]
- Subtitles are not yet supported
References
- Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home — Linux.com review of Thoggen (March 29, 2006).
- Homepage — How is it different from all the others?
- Meaning of "make video certain quality" — From the thoggen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list
- Andrew Min, Choose the DVD ripper that's right for you, March 6, 2008, linux.com
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