[ News | Features | Requirements | Download | NAQ | FAQ | Contact ] [español | italiano]
ANDREW logo No Software Patents!

ANDREW's Not a DVD Ripping and Encoding Wizard, but an interactive wrapper or a BASH script to simplify the use of OggEnc, MEncoder and mkv/ogmmerge to create, from a DVD, one or more Matroska or Ogg Media files containing an ISO/IEC MPEG-4 Part 2 compliant video track, encoded using FFmpeg libavcodec or XviD codec, one or more AC-3 or Vorbis audio tracks, a chapter index and, optionally, one or more subtitle tracks.

ANDREW is free software, released under GNU General Public License.

News

2005/11/08 Released version 1.2: added subtitle support for Matroska files and minor useful features; fixed minor bugs
2005/11/08 Changed my email address
2005/09/03 Released version 1.1.4: some bugs about locale fixed

Features

ANDREW's main features are:

Requirements

ANDREW should work with any operating system where you can install and execute the following software (tested on a i686 running GNU/Linux):

Download

ANDREW package includes localised man pages and localisation files.
See NEWS and ChangeLog to know all the changes made to ANDREW.

Package Version Date Size (kB) Download
andrew 1.2 2005/11/08 167 tar.bz2
andrew 1.1.4 2005/09/03 192 tar.bz2
andrew 1.1.3 2005/06/21 190 tar.bz2
andrew 1.1.2 2005/03/20 176 tar.bz2
andrew 1.1.1 2004/12/31 175 tar.bz2
andrew 1.1 2004/12/20 174 tar.bz2
andrew 1.0.1 2004/11/26 172 tar.bz2
andrew 1.0 2004/11/18 172 tar.bz2

NAQ

How can I play DVDs and video files (including .ogm and .mkv)?
Operating System Player Not for
GNU/Linux MPlayer DVD menus
VLC media player
xine
Windows Media Player Classic + ffdshow + oggds
VLC media player
Windows Media Player + Matroska Pack Full + oggds DVDs, some files, Freedom
Other MPlayer DVD menus
VLC media player
xine
What are .ogm files?
OGM meaning Ogg Media File, was developed by Tobias Waldvogel. It is a container format (for video, audio and subtitles), which can do a few things what the AVI format cannot: chapter support; Vorbis audio support. Just like AVI, it also supports: multiple subtitle tracks, multiple audio tracks, of various formats (MP3, AC3, Vorbis (not in AVI), WAV).
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGM)
What are .mkv files?
Matroska aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats [...]. It incorporates features you would expect from a modern container format, like: fast seeking in the file; high error recovery; chapter entries; selectable subtitle streams; selectable audio streams; modularly extendable; streamable over internet (HTTP and RTP audio & video streams); menus (like DVDs have) [...]. Matroska is an open standards project.
(from www.matroska.org)
What is Vorbis?
Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source. Learn more by reading the FAQ.
(from www.vorbis.com)
What is FFmpeg?
FFmpeg is a project released under the GNU Lesser General Public License [...]. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library [...] that includes, in its turn, an ISO/IEC MPEG-4 Part 2 compliant video codec.
(from ffmpeg.sourceforge.net)
What is XviD?
XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec, so designed to compress/decompress digital video. It's a open source project, which is developed and maintained by a handful of skilled and interested engineers from all over the world.
(from www.xvid.org )

FAQ

What does NAQ mean?
Never Asked Questions...
Who hosts this project?
ANDREW is actually hosted by www.memebot.com, for free and without forced advertisements.

Contact

Send questions, suggestions, comments, translations, invitations to dinner and more-than-80%-cocoa chocolate to Alessandro Di Rubbo, at liquidgnome@bluebottle.com (follow the instructions in the reply to your message to have your address added to my allowed list and to ensure delivery of your email).
[ News | Features | Requirements | Download | NAQ | FAQ | Contact ] [español | italiano]