Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22.32, Mike Myers wrote:
> Hey everybody!
>
> I'm trying to find something that I can use to rip and then remake
> DVDs.  I have some japanese dvds that won't play on almost any regular
> dvd players because of the stupid region thing.  K3b didn't seem to have
> anything for doing that, so I tried dvdrip/dvd::rip.  Whenever I run
> dvdrip, it just goes to the next line and says "[filterlist]
> (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode..." and sits
> there for as long as I let it without actually doing anything.  I can't
> seem to find anything to skip that process or anything.
>
> Can somebody please recommend another tool or show me how to fix
> dvdrip?  I'd really like to watch these dvds from something other than
> my laptop.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Mikey

Are you running an amd64 Gentoo? I have the same DVDrip problem here. My 
solution has been to emerge Acidrip and Mplayer - it is masked, but I have 
run into no problem so far, the results are as good as those I had with 
DVDrip/transcode and much faster.
I have discovered it uses a newer codec however (FMP4) that prevents viewing 
the videos on older Xine install, but installing mplayer and/or vlc on those 
machines is a workaround. I guess it's a problem of building XIne with the 
right libraries but not every distribution makes it as easy as re-emerging in 
Gentoo. Xine on Gentoo amd64 works however.

Now putting the video back on a DVD is another problem. I've been playing with 
DVDauthor so far but my standalone players won't play the DVDs (that do play 
on computers however...)

Thierry

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