Re: [gNewSense-users] kind of off-topic, but not completely: ripping DVDs with gNewSense?

[Dean Linkous]

On 02/11/2007 11:17:47 PM, andrei raevsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to rip commercial DVDs with a gNewSense  
> application.
> Right now, I use VLC to watch DVDs (I have all the libraries needed  
> to watch
> commercial/encrypted DVDs) and dvdbackup to back them up, but I would  
> like
> to find a way to take a commercial DVD and make it into an mpeg or  
> avi file.

Thoggen (already suggested) is what I use to create something I keep on  
the computer to watch.

As far as DVD....that is a mess....That is all I can say or else the  
men-in-black will arrive at my door. I do make copies of my DVDs for  
fair-use only and I only backup the main feature. I have a couple  
little (bad) scripts and use those along with some manual futzing it  
does just fine. As far as I know, all the tools I use are free  
software. If they are not free then just ignore me and dont tell me  
please. :) Look into the following packages/tools:
mjpegtools
subtitleripper
transcode
(not sure if these are available in gNewSense or not)

hope this helps a little...