which ripping software do you use?

[Carpo]

im not gonna ask which is best, i just want to get an idear of which tool is a) feature complete b) stable

i have checked the faq here and done a bit of googling - all im after is for the vobs to be decrypted to the hard drive no transcoding or anything like that.

i know i could use wine but to get that working under slackware is a pain in the ass even though i do have buldscripts for the required packages

[~L~]

I used to use dvdbackup. Nowadays I encode to x264-mkv so I just use mplayer -dumpstream.

[r0lZ]

To rip not ARccOS/RipGuard protected DVDs, DVD Decrypter is still the best. For protected DVDs, DVDFab HD Decrypter is probably a good choice. They are free.

[wildchild77]

I am still running DVD Decrypter & R4Me with Wine to do the ripping and DVD Rebuilder Pro or Shrink. Here is a link to another thread which shows some of the other stuff I have working pretty good under Wine.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120107

[Carpo]

was hoping to replace deamon tools and dvd-decrypter with native linux tools if poss, one little update to your thread - pgcedit works under linux anyway as there is a linux version of it ;)

[r0lZ]

pgcedit works under linux anyway as there is a linux version of it ;)Right, although it doesn't install the standard way.
BTW, if someone can help me to build the standard packages for Linux, I may try to do it.

[mc2man]

while some apps like k9copy, k3b, or or a simple dd do an okay job, windows apps. are still better for dvd stuff and certainly when there's any structure protection present. In that regard wine is a very useful tool.I've found all these progs. work as good or very close as in windows
dvdd, dvdrb, vobblanker, ripit4.., dvdshrink, cce, menushrink, Imgburn, pgcedit(win ver.), dvdremakePro, dvd audio extractor, audio dvd creator, lameXp, DGindex, and I'm sure there's more (dvd, cd related)
The only notable exception for me is dvdsubedit and no preview in dvdrb
As far as PgcEdit (at least for me) if you're using wine i'd stick with the win. ver., the chmod a+x command affected all my .exe's, iirc no more right click/d.click open w/wine (6 months ago can't remember exactly)
The other thing w/pgcedit is while I usually install from terminal I think it's better to install pgcedit from right or d. click. Running after install from terminal is fine
was hoping to replace deamon tools
I've searched alot for something like that but I don't think you'll see anything similar - at least for progs in wine. Mounting iso's and such is very easy in linux but they won't show up as a cdrom drive
There was/is 2 progs called cdemu and kcdemu that may actually work like deamon tools - I don't know - someone is redoing them for Sabayon
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&p=56965

[Carpo]

not had an issue with pgcedit under linux all i did was chmod 755 on pgcedit, as like you the a+x command i didnt do quite right (was new to linux at the time) and a lot of files were not too good after ;)

as to wine yes i think i may well have to compile that and fontfogre (seems its a wine requirement here) and see how i go from there, last time i tried to run imgburn or dvd decrypter it said it couldnt find the dvd drive, suppose i will have to read up and see whats what

[r0lZ]

all i did was chmod 755 on pgcedit, as like you the a+x command i didnt do quite rightUsing the properties GUI to tick the executable option should be sufficient. It's what I do after an update.

[mc2man]

last time i tried to run imgburn or dvd decrypter it said it couldnt find the dvd drive
dvdd and imgburn(write,read,verify) need win. ver. nt4.0 or higher to detect drives
imgburn in build mode must be win98 - I set up an ImgBurn1.exe for builds
Which ver. of wine you use does matter

[Carpo]

so if i grab Wine 0.9.44 dated 24/08 that should be good enough ? last time i used wine was when i gave ubuntu a try - didnt like it too much

[mc2man]

so if i grab Wine 0.9.44 dated 24/08 that should be good enough
hard to say without trying. I know 0.9.41(or .40) broke ImgBurn completely
0.9.39 should be good I've locked my main pc at 0.9.35
I think a good guideline for wine is if it's not broke don't upgrade
i have a test box if you want I'll try 0.9.4x just say so

[Carpo]

if you would - saves me having to ccompile it if it aint going to work ;)

[mc2man]

i would certainly take what I see about .44 with a grain of salt seeing as I'm running it as an upgrade with an existing customized system32 and no changes in winecfg
I checked 5 progs. - dvdd, dvdrb, pgcedit, imgburn and dgindex
All opened fine and dvdd worked okay (the info box was somewhat garbled)
The problem with the other 4 was they couldn't browse into a ripped folder
For example i ripped The Fountain in file mode to drive_c but while all 4 progs. can browse to the folder The Fountain they can't see the video_ts inside. On the other hand vlc can open and play
Possibly with a fresh install w/ default sys32 andappropriate winecfg settings who knows
If you're only using wine for win. dvd/cd progs. I'd go with an earlier ver.
I rechecked my main pc and it's actually locked at .33 and while I'm sure they've improved and fixed wine since then certainly nothing in regards to the above mentioned progs.
I believe you can dl ver. sources going back quite a ways

[Carpo]

not sure what the version in the slack build script i have here but i can test it out i suppose and see whats what - thanks

[xxxyzzzz]

I am suprised no one has mentioned:

cat /dev/hdc > my.iso

Z

[Carpo]

will that remove protection via libdvdcss or just make an excat copy with encryption still there ?

[r0lZ]

cat is not really a DeCSS program! ;)

[Carpo]

if yyou dont know you should ask so someone more knowledgeable can tell you whats what ;) - still played from the hdd fine - libdvdcss did its thing there :D

[Carpo]

have got dvd decrypter working under wine but am geting some strange errors with dvdrb - not sure if i should post in there as its a linux os im using or just use windows to do backups :/

or is it a case of pro version still not working under wine - but free one does ?

[xxxyzzzz]

quote: "cat is not really a DeCSS program!"

Oh, you are looking for a DeCSS program then - I would use RipIt4me. works great, and no problems in opensuse 10.2, except maybe a few tweaks under WINE for it to work....

Z

[mc2man]

or is it a case of pro version still not working under wine - but free one does ?

pro should work fine, what type of errors?

[Carpo]

error parsing ifo and error extracting mpeg are the two erros that im getting - makes no difference if i use vobcopy to rip the disc or dvd decrypter

[Carpo]

could you list which you have as native and which are from win ?

[mc2man]

Maybe you should go back to post #4 and follow link to see if you missed something. Also from that thread in post #6 is another informative link to a thread on digital digest..
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/wine-user/config-dll
has some good info

[shevegen]

I am using dvd decrypter for weird .vob files (i had some that were like ".vob?" and mplayer was confused about it), else i use mplayer to rip (or vobcopy, but mplayer seems to be better than vobcopy)

Btw, the vob files came from a DVD I bought from ama**n... all the other DVDs i bought from there didnt have this problem, so i wondered if anyone over there started to change things.... very annoying to me, i think my once love for DVDs grew to some kind of hate and with those copy protection schemes in new bluray or whatever the name is, i wont get anything else the next ~6 years... >:(

[skottish]

I use x264 and FAAC through FFMPEG for everything.

[Sharktooth]

Ripping... not encoding...

[snherbst]

I use K9Copy. I never rip to AVI, MKV or MP4.

[mousemurder]

vobcopy