| Thoggen | |
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 Thoggen main window | |
| Stable release | 0.7.1
/ 12 June 2008 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | DVD-Rip |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | http://www.thoggen.net/ |
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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. Thoggen aims to be easy and straightforward to use, by hiding complexity and offering sensible defaults.1
Features
- Encodes into Ogg/Theora video.
- Based on the GStreamer multimedia framework.
- Supports title preview, picture cropping and resizing.
- Language Selection for audio track.
- Can encode from local directory with video DVD files.
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."2
- Thoggen can only encode video into the Theora codec. Since the software is based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, it may be possible to add additional encoding formats/codecs in future versions.1
- 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.
See also
See also
References
References
- Homepage — How is it different from all the others?
- Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home — Linux.com review of Thoggen (March 29, 2006).
- Meaning of "make video certain quality" Deprecated link archived 2012-07-14 at archive.today — 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