<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Bob Kline<<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bob Kline<<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > I can "rip" a music CD using K3b.<br>
>> > Run K3b, choose "Rip Audio CD,"<br>
>> > and eventually something like "start<br>
>> > ripping" shows up.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If I choose "Rip Video DVD," and<br>
>> > insert a DVD, I see some information<br>
>> > about the DVD, but never see any<br>
>> > indication that one can start ripping.<br>
>> > I also tried a DVD that I recorded off<br>
>> > TV, that has the same kind of DVD<br>
>> > movie format - it plays fine - and the<br>
>> > same thing happens.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Anyone successfully used the rip<br>
>> > video DVD feature?<br>
>><br>
>> Never tried with K3b. When I've ripped DVDs, I used DVD::rip.<br>
><br>
> I don't follow. This is a package?<br>
<br>
</div></div>It's the name of a Perl module that rips DVDs. There's a program by<br>
the same name that serves as a GUI wrapper for it. Unfortunately,<br>
it's not simple for a beginner to use; It exposes a lot of options<br>
around the ripping, transmuxing and encoding processes. But then,<br>
DVDs aren't a simple format. While audio CDs are more or less a<br>
digital equivalent to the vinyl format, DVDs are a lot more<br>
complicated than, say, video tape. (I could elaborate for 10-20KB if<br>
you'd like...)<br>
<br>
Without knowing which distribution you're using, I couldn't tell you<br>
how to install it.</blockquote><div><br>Ubuntu 9.04 - 64 bit version. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
<br>
As an aside, it's also possible your distribution doesn't have<br>
libdvdread installed, or, if it does, you haven't installed DeCSS yet.<br>
libdvdread comes with a shell script that handles the installation of<br>
DeCSS.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>libdvdread is there. DeCSS is not.<br>There's nothing obvious to me in the <br>way of an install script for DeCSS.<br><br> DVD's play just fine. <br>
<br> -- Bob<br><br></div></div>