media-video/vcdgear

A.S. Pushkin · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 5:58 pm Post subject: media-video/vcdgear

Since it will soon be removed from Portage, is there any other package that will do the same thing? I had a friend from China,
who had a disk that I was able to save with vcdgear.

TIA
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:15 pm Post subject:

What exactly you need? Rip, convert,...?
Some packages that can used for video encoding and ripping

A.S. Pushkin · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:50 pm Post subject: Vcdgear

I do have Handbrake and it works nicely. A friend recently raved about ffmpeg so I'll have to look at that,
but in my case I had a DVD that was damaged.

In the case I mentioned I met a taijiquan teacher. He had a disk, that he wanted me to copy, but it would not copy
due to damage. I was rather perplexed until discovering VCDGEAR, which allowed me to fix and then create a
new disk. As the disk was from China he allowed me to copy it for his students.

Your suggestion of media-video/vcdimager sounds like a possible replacement for VCDGEAR. I'll look into it.

Thank you!
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