[GRLUG] K3b question

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Bob Kline<bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Bob Kline<bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I can "rip" a music CD using K3b.
>> > Run K3b, choose "Rip Audio CD,"
>> > and eventually something like "start
>> > ripping" shows up.
>> >
>> > If I choose "Rip Video DVD," and
>> > insert a DVD,  I see some information
>> > about the DVD, but never see any
>> > indication that one can start ripping.
>> > I also tried a DVD that I recorded off
>> > TV, that has the same kind of DVD
>> > movie format - it plays fine - and the
>> > same thing happens.
>> >
>> > Anyone successfully used the rip
>> > video DVD feature?
>>
>> Never tried with K3b.  When I've ripped DVDs, I used DVD::rip.
>
> I don't follow.  This is a package?

It's the name of a Perl module that rips DVDs.  There's a program by
the same name that serves as a GUI wrapper for it.  Unfortunately,
it's not simple for a beginner to use; It exposes a lot of options
around the ripping, transmuxing and encoding processes.  But then,
DVDs aren't a simple format.  While audio CDs are more or less a
digital equivalent to the vinyl format, DVDs are a lot more
complicated than, say, video tape. (I could elaborate for 10-20KB if
you'd like...)

Without knowing which distribution you're using, I couldn't tell you
how to install it.

As an aside, it's also possible your distribution doesn't have
libdvdread installed, or, if it does, you haven't installed DeCSS yet.
 libdvdread comes with a shell script that handles the installation of
DeCSS.

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