[GRLUG] K3b question

[Bob Kline]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


Ubuntu 9.04  - 64 bit version.

>
>
> 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.
>

libdvdread is there.  DeCSS is not.
There's nothing obvious to me in the
way of an install script for DeCSS.

  DVD's play just fine.

   -- Bob
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