NAME
vamps - Tool to recompress and modify the structure of a DVD
SYNOPSIS
vamps [--evaporate|-e factor] [--ps-evaporate|-E factor] [--audio|-a a-
streama-stream...] [--subpictures|-s s-stream,s-stream,...]
[--verbose|-v] [--inject|-i injections-file] [--preserve|-p]
[--ps-size|-S input-bytes] <input>output ...
DESCRIPTION
Vamps was written to make cheap backups of DVDs under Linux.
Vamps builds a wrapper around the requantizer to extract the elementary
MPEG2 video stream from the DVD’s program stream, feed it through the
requantizer and finally re-pack it into the program stream again.
Besides this, Vamps allows to select audio and subtitle streams that
should be copied into the output stream. This gives another small gain
of disk space, since unwanted streams may be discarded.
Vamps is only a very basic, but nevertheless essential tool to
transcode DVD videos to a smaller size. Vamps does not need to write
temporary data files, which is a major advantage. Vamps is very fast.
The downside is, that Vamps is not capable of making DVD backups on its
own.
OPTIONS
For options that require an argument, each duplication will override
the previous argument value.
--evaporate, -e factor
factor by which the embedded elementary video stream will
approximately be shrunk (>=1.0)
--ps-evaporate, -E factor
factor by which the whole program stream will approximately be
shrunk (>=1.0) -e and -E are mutually exclusive.
--audio, -a a-streama-stream...
select audio streams to keep. First stream is 1.
--subpictures, -s s-streams-stream...
select subtitle streams to keep. First stream is 1.
--verbose, -v
Increase verbosity level by one.
--inject, -i injections-file
Load internal variable settings from file to seamlessly continue
previous run. Write internal variables to file at program
termination. If file does not exist, it is created. Useful to
shrink several parts (chapters, titles) to a single target DVD.
--preserve, -p
Preserve numbering of audio and subtitle streams. If called
without this option, Vamps renumbers the streams to ascending
numbers starting with 1. This option disables renumbering so the
original stream numbers are kept.
--ps-size, -S input-bytes
If the input for Vamps does not come from a file (e.g. a pipe),
the size of the full input program stream *MUST* be supplied in
the command line. Size is in bytes.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Claudio Moratti <maxer@knio.it> for the
Debian system (but may be used by others). It was slightly modified by
Rogerio Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>. This document is released under the
terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 and later.