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A Distributed DivX Ripper?

Posted by Cliff on from the backing-up-your-DVDs dept.

RJ asks: "I know much about Java/C++ and sockets programming and I'd like to use this knowledge to build a distributed program to rip a DVD into DivX. It will work by breaking the job into chunks, sending chunks to other computers to encode, then patching it back together. Despite my searching efforts, I have been unable to find a decent resource to teach me how to program the DivX core to encode mpeg2 and re-join parts. I'm hoping that some readers of slashdot can point me in the right direction?"

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  1. dvd::rip has a cluster mode by Vito · · Score: 5, Informative

    Watch this post get modded up, and not my qualified response to the From Coder to Game Designer question. Humbug!

    Anyway, as brought up in the last Ask Slashdot remotely similar to this one (Archiving DVD's with Linux), dvd::rip, which is a Perl+GTK front-end to transcode, has a fairly insecure cluster mode, whereby it will split up the video transcoding task among however many machines you can coerce into doing it, and rip and mux the audio with the video on the host machine.

    Sounds like just what the doctor ordered. Now someone go mod up that other answer of mine. Please?

  2. This already exists: Vidomi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Vidomi is a badass little program to turn mpg, vob, ... into DivX. One of the recently added features is "Distributed Encoding" (read: Scalability via network slaves).

    This answer your question?