dvd ripping/compressing

[spowel4]

There is a utility called dvdshrink for windows that allows you to rip data from a dvd and compress it so it will fit onto a standard 4.7gb dvd. Does anyone know of a comparable utility that will run on Ubuntu 6.10?

[dkeav]

you can use several tools and write a lil bash script to do it quite easily

you need namely, dvd+rw-tools, dvdauthor, libdvdread (with libdvdcss), lsdvd and transcode

[JuiceWVU202]

DVDShrink will run very well under wine on dapper.

[Pafnoutios]

I use k9copy. Also, I believe the author of DVDShrink developed BASH and/or Perl scripts for Linux.

[je_fro]

I think lots of people have written scripts that utilize transcode or mencoder for just such a task...search around and you'll find dkeav's and mine, and possibly many others.