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I've just started using tablet encode. It sure beats messing about with Handbrake as I'd been trying previously!

Yes, it's pretty nice. A tip that was not obvious to me is that while "dvd://" (aka the whole dvd) as the input source tells tablet-encode to make its best guess on the track you want it to encode, dvd://1 will tell it to only copy the first track, dvd://2, only the second track, dvd://2 dvd://3 will tell it to only copy tracks 2 and 3 (and call them 2.avi and 3.avi in the output directory you will need to specify). This will prevent issues where tablet-encode guesses wrong.

You can examine each track by running
mplayer dvd://1
maplyer dvd://2
etc.

to decide if you want that track.

To pause mplayer press "p", to exit press "q" I usually pause then exit although I don't know why. Probably something left over from vcr usage where mplayer's pause would be a vcr's stop and mplayer's quit would be a vcr's power off.

Great tip! I needed to do that & ended up using Handbrake to rip then tablet-encode to convert. I love all the cool stuff you can do on the command line if you know how!!!

It's just sad that it creates mp4 files with mp3 audio by default for n900. That's not really compatible and doesn't run on many players (like quicktime). I changed it to use x264 with aac audio in mp4 files.