Ripping a DVD - Now THAT was easy!

[psych-major]

I have used DVD Decryptor in Windows for ripping DVD discs to my hard drive. Hold your flames, I find it easier to not have to carry DVD's on a plane, and it uses less battery to play them from the hard drive, anyway...

This seems rather obvious now, but in Linux, all I had to do was use dd:
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=filename.iso
Then to mount it:
mkdir /media/movie
mount -t iso9660 filename.iso /media/movie -o loopThen just open it as a disc in your media player of choice! :cool: (Assuming you have the necessary codecs to play DVD's in the first place...)

[dkeav]

of couse some of those dvd's are going to be dual layer and take up to 8+ gb of harddrive space, which is where compressing them into more usable formats comes in handy, i would suggest x264 or xvid for near dvd quality rips at the 500-900mb range

also if you use mplayer you dont have to mount it, you can use the -dvd-device option

mplayer -dvd-device somefile.iso dvd://

[psych-major]

of couse some of those dvd's are going to be dual layer and take up to 8+ gb of harddrive space, which is where compressing them into more usable formats comes in handy, i would suggest x264 or xvid for near dvd quality rips at the 500-900mb range
I thought of that, and some of the actual rippers are my next stop. But I've got to say, I love how cool it is to do something with a cli command or two in lInux, when it takes a plethora of proprietary software to do it n Windows!

also if you use mplayer you dont have to mount it, you can use the -dvd-device option
mplayer -dvd-device somefile.iso dvd://
That's cool, I'll check it out. Lately I've been using VLC, and I think it has that option too.

[dkeav]

heh if you are gonna get all cli about it, compile mplayer without its gui, which is basically pointless anyways considering it doesnt have nearly as many options as the cli, and the keybindings for mplayer are very good

[psych-major]

LOL, that's actually how I ran mplayer for a very long time because I didn't know you had to tell it to compile the GUI! I just thought it only worked from the CLI!

[XiaoKJ]

me too. Have been running mplayer in the CLI, completely unaware that it has a GUI component, and completely unable to use keybindings (I didn't learn them)

[psych-major]

And they actually let us help other people... :eek:

And if you haven't already, check out the newest VLC. It is very smooth!

[psych-major]

In Windows, I use MagicISO to edit and save ISO image files. I'm aware of mkisofs, but is there a GUI tool similar to MagicISO for Linux?

[dkeav]

whats with you guys and the gui's, you know they are just going to let you down ;)

[psych-major]

Well, for the MagicISO thing, it's for work, and time is money, so in that are I don't have time to mess around, I need to edit, save, and burn.
Other than that, I'm a huge cli junkie!


Well, accept for Acidrip, which I'm trying out right now. Wow, what an excellent app!