Recoding a la "dvdshrink" on linux?

[Merlink]

Hello,
I just left windows to put myself into linux world completely.

I replaced almost every prog i used to use in windows with the linux ones, only one of them is actually missed, DVDShrink...

Is someone in here able to guide me to a good alternative? :)
Does it exists?

Thanks in advance.

[KpeX]

Well, recent versions of wine have been able to handle DVDShrink fairly well if you read from the disk - although on my box it still crashes fairly often and is far from stable with wine.

You may want to give lxdvdrip (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip/) a try - it supposedly can handle full dvd backups. (by the way - anyone know where to find an english version of lxdvdrip?)

However since I usually do main movie only backups StreamDVD (http://www.badabum.de/streamdvd.html) in combination with DVDAuthor (dvdauthor.sf.net) works well, although it's fairly limited - subtitles aren't supported yet ( a problem in the mplex multiplexer ) and if you want chapter points it's going to take some work.

As far as an all-in-one transcoder similar to Shrink that will spit out ISO images you may be out of luck.

[ElQuapo]

If DVDShrink is freeware, wouldn't it be possible to make a linux build of the program? Not that I would know how, but it would seem pretty simple :-)

[albertgasset]

Originally posted by ElQuapo
If DVDShrink is freeware, wouldn't it be possible to make a linux build of the program? Not that I would know how, but it would seem pretty simple :-)

DVDShrink is freeware (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Freeware), not Free Software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) (freeware is completely different than free software). There's no source code available and no permission from the author. Read the links and you'll understand why.

[ElQuapo]

Originally posted by albertgasset
DVDShrink is freeware (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Freeware), not Free Software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) (freeware is completely different than free software). There's no source code available and no permission from the author. Read the links and you'll understand why.

Thanks for the info. I didn't realise the difference.

That being said, wouldn't it be possible to talk the author into releasing a linux version. I mean, if I had created a program and had decided that people could use it for free, then I would probably also be interested in having as many people as possible using it, in which case it would be in my interest to have it available for multiple operating systems.

[KpeX]

Originally posted by ElQuapo
Thanks for the info. I didn't realise the difference.

That being said, wouldn't it be possible to talk the author into releasing a linux version. I mean, if I had created a program and had decided that people could use it for free, then I would probably also be interested in having as many people as possible using it, in which case it would be in my interest to have it available for multiple operating systems. It's worth a shot, and there's definitely a linux crowd that would be interested in DVDShrink. I'm not a programmer but I think that to do a true linux port it would require a lot of new code, because a new graphical toolkit would have to be used for the GUI and much of the DVD access code would have to be changed as well.

But dvdshrink may be interested. He's registered on this forum ('dvdshrink'), but it may be easier to reach him on the dvdshrink.info forums.