[ale] DVD ripping

[James Sumners]

The folks at Debian Package of the Day must read the list --
http://debaday.debian.net/2007/10/31/thoggen-a-gtk-based-simple-dvd-ripper/

On 10/30/07, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> 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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