New port vamps version 0.98: High performance tool to transcode DVD

videos to a smaller size

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+[ excerpt from developer's www site with modifications ]
+
+The idea was to use the high performance Metakine M2Requantiser to
+create a transcoder for Linux for shrinking the content of a DVD9.
+This would enable backups on cheap single layer DVDRs (double layer
+burners weren't even available that time).
+
+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 the selection of both 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.
+
+Summed up, 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 pro. Vamps is very
+fast. The downside is, that Vamps is not capable of making DVD
+backups on its own.
+
+WWW: http://vamps.sourceforge.net/
+
+-- lioux@FreeBSD.org