Open source dvd-rip tools under linux

[Stranger]

Hi,
I'm a VERY mewbye linux user.

I installed my first linux OS today (mandrake 9.1) and I'm lurking a lot of forums, board and NG searching for tools for dvd-rip.

My question is:

Can I compile and build an open source tool (for example avisynth 2.5, or xvid or VDM and so on) starting from its source under my new OS?

If the answer is yes I think it would be relatively easy to obtain the same "ripping-strategy" I used until now under windows simply compiling any open-source tool I need, isn't it?

If my idea is completely fool please tell me :)

Bye for now.

[Belgabor]

Well, it depends entirely on the tool. VDub and AviSynth are Windoze specific, you can't build them in linux, but you can try to run the binaries with wine. XviD should build fine on linux.
For other (linux specific) tools browse a bit through this forum.

[abatis]

I have successfully ripped with DVDdecyptor using Codeweaver on RH9 so I suspect it will work with wine. I have also got Ifoedit to run but have not processed a video yet, but just loaded ifos -need to make more space on a drive to split a dvd. Dvdshrink1.03 exploded on install but I am going to try someother transcoders in CodeWeaver, like dvd2one. Its fun to see if this stuff will work.

[BradChandler]

You want dvd::rip
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip

If you can set up your rpm sources list to contain the plf packages, you can install binaries for dvd::rip, transcode, and several other things you might need. See this site for setting that up:
http://plf.zarb.org/