On 2007-11-10, Demosthenes wrote:
> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>
> Any thoughts?

So what is stopping you? DVDshrink is an across platform programme.

Demosthenes wrote:
> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>
> Any thoughts?

Thoughts, I have many. For one, what the hell are you asking?

Learn to ask a better question? Be precise:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-...html#beprecise

--
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:10:42 +0000, Gordon wrote:

> On 2007-11-10, Demosthenes wrote:
>> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> So what is stopping you? DVDshrink is an across platform programme.

I thought it was windows only. I could not find it in the Synaptic
package manager. I found many other DVD rippers but nothing I have
managed to actually get working yet.

Ripping to xvid would be ideal, if I could find something. Anyone had
any luck?

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:08:37 +0000, johnny bobby bee wrote:

> Demosthenes wrote:
>> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> Thoughts, I have many. For one, what the hell are you asking?
>
> Learn to ask a better question? Be precise:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-...html#beprecise

This may make more sense if I insert this sentence

"does anyone know of any good equivalents or better for Linux / Ubuntu?"

Cheers..

Demosthenes wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:08:37 +0000, johnny bobby bee wrote:
>
>> Demosthenes wrote:
>>> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thoughts, I have many. For one, what the hell are you asking?
>>
>> Learn to ask a better question? Be precise:
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-...html#beprecise
>
> This may make more sense if I insert this sentence
>
> "does anyone know of any good equivalents or better for Linux / Ubuntu?"
>
> Cheers..

k9copy
--
Microsoft software doesn't get released - it escapes, leaving
a trail of destruction behind it.

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:00:59 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote:

>
> k9copy

right on! about to press the green button and see how we go.. after I
copy to xvid (mpeg4) it seems to output as an ISO - can I mount an ISO
and play that somehow or will some players play directly from ISO?

Demosthenes wrote:
>>> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
> This may make more sense if I insert this sentence
>
> "does anyone know of any good equivalents or better for Linux / Ubuntu?"

"More sense"? Yes. Still not enough information. You're assuming we know
what DVD Shrink and DVD decrypter do? We can guess, but I doubt most
Linux users know exactly what they do. I sure don't!

We shouldn't have to do your homework for you. Explain what each does,
and then ask for the 'equivalents or better' question.. How else are we
to know equivalents for those 2 programs?

Perhaps though these will get you started.

K9copy, as someone else has suggested, which is indeed lovely.

Also, DVD95:
http://dvd95.sourceforge.net/

--
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin

> We shouldn't have to do your homework for you. Explain what each does,
> and then ask for the 'equivalents or better' question..

One decrypts dvds to iso's or files, the other shrinks to a 4.9GB ISO.

>
> K9copy, as someone else has suggested, which is indeed lovely.
>
> Also, DVD95:
> http://dvd95.sourceforge.net/

thank you :-) trying K9copy now..

Demosthenes wrote:
>> k9copy
>
> right on! about to press the green button and see how we go.. after I
> copy to xvid (mpeg4) it seems to output as an ISO - can I mount an ISO
> and play that somehow or will some players play directly from ISO?

Output will be .avi if you chose create mpeg-4 instead of DVD. But yes,
if you chose to copy a DVD to your hard-drive you can choose .iso format
and a few players will play iso. VLC most impressively (chapters and menus).

--
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin

Demosthenes wrote:
> One decrypts dvds to iso's or files, the other shrinks to a 4.9GB ISO.

DVD95 does both these things. DVD95 is an gnome application to convert
DVD9 to DVD5 (4.7GB). 4.9GB won't fit on a normal single layer DVD.

> thank you :-) trying K9copy now..

K9copy can shrink entire DVDs like DVD95, to 4.7GB (iso file) or convert
separate titles of DVD to mpeg-4.

--
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin

thank you everyone for your help :-)

I tried K9 and it whizzed through everything and produced nothing.. not
sure what happened there. no errors that I could see. It did recognise
the DVD though.

outputting to avi woudl be terrific.

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:29:57 +0000, Demosthenes wrote:

> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>
> Any thoughts?

I like acidrip... running Gnome desktop here.

OS: Linux/Debian(mostly)

I have used VOBCOOPY to rip onto disk and FFMPEG to compress.
For '.ogg' video compressiom see also vob2theora.

VOBCOPY is fast, FFMPEG probably takes 2x play time unless you have a
very fast processor. I think I damaged a Thinkpad T20 due to
overheating in compressing some 40+ operas, some over 4hours long
playing time, all to play on that and present T42 laptop.

Recently I redid all rips onto (2) 500GB USB disks which I can plug into
any Linux and play in full mode, allowing even subtitles. FFMPEG and
OGG-VORBIS compression does not do this yet. Subtitles are useful for
foreign movies and operas.

I won't try compression again until (1) I buy and faster CPU, and (2)
only for those videos where I would not use subtitles until software
handles it.

WARNING: I had problems recently with a newly purchased video: I/O
looping to resolve errors. Fortunatly I pulled plug, tried another DVD
player and got DVD copied. Some tracks got cooked in process but not
enough to destroy it, I home never to use it again. As mentioned above,
if sw or hw goes cookoo you may destroy DVD and possibly cook your CPU.
A programmer to maintains (author?) of one of these compressor
agrees.

Demosthenes wrote:

> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>
> Any thoughts?

You should stick with Windoze.

Cheers.

--
Sometimes, I Wake Up Grumpy.
Sometimes, I Just Let Him Sleep In.
-- My Wife

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:29:57 +0000, Demosthenes wrote:

> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>
> Any thoughts?

RipIt4ME used in conjunction with DVDShrink and DVDDecrypter works fine
in Linux under Wine.

Jim

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:29:57 +0000, Demosthenes wrote:

> I had DVD Shrink and a DVD decrypter in Windows that worked a charm.
>
> Any thoughts?

Ubuntu's page for software equivalents

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents

The Linux equivalent project

http://www.linuxeq.com/

and a few other pages

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...re:Web_Browser

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...Word_Processor


--
Chris