[ale] DVD ripping

[Scott Castaline]

Tim Meanor wrote:
> You can do this:
> 1.  dd if=/dev/<dvd drive> of=dvdimage.iso bs=2048
>
> 2.  mount -o loopback /path/to/dvdimage.iso /media
>
> 3.  Use VLC to watch the video by pointing it to  /media/VIDEO_TS
>
> You could always copy /media/VIDEO_TS to your harddrive first if you 
> prefer, though I kinda like keeping the .isos around instead.
>
>
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>> Ok I've just started playing around with DVDs on my Linux box. After 
>> playing a few, I decided to rip them so that the DVD would be on my 
>> hard drive allowing me to play from hard drive instead of the DVD 
>> player. I realize that DVD ripping is more involved that CD ripping, 
>> but this is getting to be very frustrating. I have installed DVD::rip 
>> and tried ripping a tv series dvd. I went through the setup as stated 
>> in the docs, but I keep getting errors. The first one happens almost 
>> right away when I click on the "Read DVD TOC". I'll get:
>>
>> Failed to copy the IFO files. vobsub creation won't work properly.
>> (Did you specify the mount point of your DVD drive in the Preferences?)
>> The error message is:
>> Failed to mount DVD at /media/blahblahblah...........
>>
>> I've done all that I've found to supposedly fix it. The device 
>> selected is /dev/scd0, and the error message even contains the DVD 
>> title, that is loaded. So I ignore the error and continued, selecting 
>> all titles displayed. The program goes through the ripping and 
>> creates 3 folders under the DVD title folder of avi, tmp, & vob. Tmp 
>> will have a bunch of files and vob seems to have the individual video 
>> files from the DVD. The avi folder in the meantime is empty. I can 
>> play with my either totem or gxine or mplayer the individual videos. 
>> Is there another step that I need to take? How do I actually resolve 
>> the first error?
>>
>> After spending several hours on it yesterday, I even tried using k3b, 
>> dvdrip was suddenly able to read the TOC of one of the DVDs, but it 
>> was indicating that it was going to take over 3 hours to rip the 2nd 
>> of 10 titles, so I quite and canceled. Today I deleted all that I had 
>> done and started all over. The first error is back.
>>
>> Any ideas? If not clear it's ok to contact me off list.
>>
>> TIA
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I was thinking of that as I had tried I think through k3b or k9copy the 
image, but couldn't get anywhere from there. I have downloaded the VLC 
software sometime back, will it work using just the client?