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[ excerpt from developer's www site with modifications ]
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The idea was to use the high performance Metakine M2Requantiser to
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create a transcoder for Linux for shrinking the content of a DVD9.
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This would enable backups on cheap single layer DVDRs (double layer
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burners weren't even available that time).
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Vamps builds a wrapper around the requantizer to extract the
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elementary MPEG2 video stream from the DVD's program stream, feed
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it through the requantizer and finally re-pack it into the program
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stream again. Besides this, Vamps allows the selection of both audio
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and subtitle streams that should be copied into the output stream.
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This gives another small gain of disk space, since unwanted streams
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may be discarded.
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Summed up, Vamps is only a very basic, but nevertheless essential
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tool to transcode DVD videos to a smaller size. Vamps does not need
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to write temporary data files, which is a major pro. Vamps is very
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fast. The downside is, that Vamps is not capable of making DVD
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backups on its own.
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WWW: http://vamps.sourceforge.net/
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-- lioux@FreeBSD.org
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