Re: Ripping a DVD to Divx on linux

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Din Tuck wrote:
> hello
>
> I was wondering how I could go about ripping a DVD to a Divx file under linux.  I only found a few guides on google, and was hoping that one of you debian users might share some info on how to do this.  
>
> I am sorry if this sounds bad, or evil or something.  But I will not have access to a windows machine for quite sometime, and I would prefer doing it on my native linux.
>
> Thank you for any help/advice you may offer.
>
> Din Tuck

add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:


deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
deb-src http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main


and then install 'video-dvdrip', it looks like what you what, though I 
haven't used it...