[GRLUG] K3b question

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Bob Kline<bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

dpkg -L libdvdread4|grep install-css.sh

>
>   DVD's play just fine.

No idea, then.  Like I said, I never tried ripping with k3b.  If you
want to try DVD::rip:
apt-get install dvdrip

If you ask me to explain how to use it, though, I'll wind up writing
the equivalent of a 10-15K blog post on the subject...

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