Scott Bronson tag:blog.rinspin.com,2005:Typo Typo 2006-05-15T07:00:43-07:00 bronson urn:uuid:6d412de5-927b-49de-ae8a-d94a70270adf 2005-12-05T15:01:00-08:00 2006-05-15T07:00:43-07:00

<p>All I want is a bone-simple program that copies an entire DVD (menus, subtitles, everything) to a folder on my hard drive. It could re-encode the video and audio (XviD and MP3?) to get similar quality at half the bitrate but that&#8217;s optional. After all, what&#8217;s an additional 500 MB these days?</p> <p>Please, no GUI! You just tell it one thing: &#8220;Go&#8221;. OK fine, maybe two things (&#8220;go &#8211;medium-quality&#8221;), but that&#8217;s it.</p> <p><a href="http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-49108.html#285863">It looks like</a> nothing like this exists for Linux. Which is strange because the big problems (DVD-CSS, DVD nav, regions, transcoding) have all been solved. Somebody just needs to pull it all together into one good ripper.</p> <p>The project that appears to come the closest is <a href="http://k9copy.free.fr">k9copy</a>. I tried using it but it just hangs for 45 minutes and then buserrors. (libdvdread 0.9.4-5, k9copy 1.0.1b)</p> <p>I can&#8217;t find anything else that even tries. Why not? And would gstreamer 0.10 facilitate this sort of transcoding?</p>

<p>All I want is a bone-simple program that copies an entire DVD (menus, subtitles, everything) to a folder on my hard drive. It could re-encode the video and audio (XviD and MP3?) to get similar quality at half the bitrate but that&#8217;s optional. After all, what&#8217;s an additional 500 MB these days?</p> <p>Please, no GUI! You just tell it one thing: &#8220;Go&#8221;. OK fine, maybe two things (&#8220;go &#8211;medium-quality&#8221;), but that&#8217;s it.</p> <p><a href="http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-49108.html#285863">It looks like</a> nothing like this exists for Linux. Which is strange because the big problems (DVD-CSS, DVD nav, regions, transcoding) have all been solved. Somebody just needs to pull it all together into one good ripper.</p> <p>The project that appears to come the closest is <a href="http://k9copy.free.fr">k9copy</a>. I tried using it but it just hangs for 45 minutes and then buserrors. (libdvdread 0.9.4-5, k9copy 1.0.1b)</p> <p>I can&#8217;t find anything else that even tries. Why not? And would gstreamer 0.10 facilitate this sort of transcoding?</p>