[SATLUG] linux multimedia tools

[John Pappas]

K3B makes ISOs without the CSS that I have both reburned and archived.

On Nov 29, 2007 8:54 AM,  <travis+ml-satlug at subspacefield.org> wrote:
> One more:
>
> For backing up DVDs, I've tried a variety of tools.  Here's my results:
>
> On Windows, some combo of alcohol 120%, dvdshrink and dvdbackup seemed
> to usually work.  Some DVDs never worked (Lord of the Rings Special
> Feature disc, which was scratched).  Each tool works on about 80% of
> the DVDs, but that always seemed to be a different 80%.
>
> On Linux, I have had less success.  Every tool I have to even play
> them actually craps out on "Lord of War" - mythtv built-in, xine,
> mplayer, ogle.  Perhaps there's a DeCSS bug that it's tickling.  I
> could eventually play it by jumping to chapter 1, but that's a "fix"
> worthy of Microsoft.  DVDs shouldn't be able to DoS my mythtv box.
>
> Anyway, I'm lazy so I tried some of the GUI tools... I tried dvd::rip,
> and after running all night it was hung after creating 2 vobs out of
> 4, and never created any avi files...  Gee, that was useful.  I could
> have done better with "cp".
>
> Anyone have good luck with any tools?
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> Life would be so much easier if it was open-source.
> <URL:https://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/> Eff the ineffable!
> For a good time on my UBE blacklist, email john at subspacefield.org.
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