Thoggen is a

DVD ripper Ripping is extracting all or parts of digital content from a container. Originally, it meant to rip music out of Commodore 64 games. Later, the term was used to extract WAV or MP3 format files from digital audio CDs, but got applied as well to ...

for

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within the GNOME project. It is based on

GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. For instance, GStreamer can be used to build a system that reads files in one format, processes the ...

and GTK+. Thoggen can back up DVDs by re-encoding them using the

Ogg Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container ...

video

codec A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or ...

. 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

* Encodes into

Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The authors of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high-quality di ...

Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg contai ...

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. * 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. * 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.Meaning of "make video certain quality"
— From the thoggen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list * Subtitles are not yet supported

References

* Andrew Min
''Choose the DVD ripper that's right for you''
March 6, 2008, linux.com

External links

Official website

SourceForge project page
Free video software Free software programmed in C DVD rippers GNOME Applications Optical disc-related software that uses GTK Software that uses GStreamer {{multimedia-software-stub

Features

Weaknesses

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