Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 00:08 +0000, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> > You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works like on
> > Windows systems, though.
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> I've ran it through crossover office - not through vanilla wine though.
> It does work, but there are limitations. For one thing, it didn't see
> the DVD-ROM, and the file browser also didn't work (just showed up
> empty) but it could open an ISO.
These bugs/restrictions are long gone. These days DVDShrink in recent
Wine is fine, and provided you set your Windows version to XP in the
winecfg tool you can read direct from a DVD drive. This will even work
on AMD64 if you have an update-to-date installation of Sid.
> So I used vobcopy -m to grab (and decrypt) the files, k3b to dump it in
> an ISO, and then use DVDShrink to squeeze it onto a 4.4gb DVD.
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> There is a native linux tool called k3copy. It works quite well, quite
> fast too. DVDShrink seems to give slightly better quality copies,
> although it was hard to tell on my old CRT screen
There are a number of native shrinking tools available now, for both
GNOME and KDE (and the console). Shrinkta and Thoggen are a few examples
of the GNOME tools, I think the latter uses GStreamer (not sure on that
though). I don't copy many DVDs so I haven't had a chance to exercise
them all, but DVDShrink I know how to use and can use it relatively
quickly, so that's what I tend to use.
> Hans
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