Ripping DVDs on Linux

bronson — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:01:00 -0800

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’s optional. After all, what’s an additional 500 MB these days?

Please, no GUI! You just tell it one thing: “Go”. OK fine, maybe two things (“go –medium-quality”), but that’s it.

It looks like 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.

The project that appears to come the closest is k9copy. I tried using it but it just hangs for 45 minutes and then buserrors. (libdvdread 0.9.4-5, k9copy 1.0.1b)

I can’t find anything else that even tries. Why not? And would gstreamer 0.10 facilitate this sort of transcoding?

Shed Your Head: Ripping DVDs on Linux

Ripping DVDs on Linux