How To Rip DVDs On Linux OS

If you simply want a copy of the DVD on your hard drive, then dvdbackup (http://dvdbackup.sourceforge.net/)is a nice command line utility. It doesn't convert to any other format though.

@notbob - to be fair, I wrote the post I linked to well over a year before I started up Bodhi :)

~Jeff

@jeff91

I wasn't replying to yer post, in particular. Jes puking up some thoughts. I did read yer link, though, as one can never know too much. I use K3b, but may change as KDE has become quite the pig.

dd if=/dev/dvd of=Riders_Of_Doom.iso

Done.

vlc opens and plays .iso images just fine.

The term "ripping" a DVD generally includes encoding it to a video format.

~Jeff

Generally, Jeff, but it's not an absolute requirement. And I'd have trouble arguing that the DVD spec isn't a video/audio format.

Quoting:...but what about those running the Linux operating system? The options are far less...

How do I rip thee?

Let me count the ways:

* Handbrake

* OGMRip

* AcidRip

* Arista Transcoder

* DVD95 Converter

* K3b

* K9copy

* Thoggen DVD Ripper

* Brasero

* vobcopy

Just to name a few.

@ the_doctor: ... Yep!!!

@the_doctor: DVD::Rip works nice.

Funny, I never was able to get DVD::rip or K9Copy to work well. I'm trying to remember what that Windows program was, that took a 8G dvd and made a 4G image of it so well.

Anyway, Handbrake is a wonderful program.

> I'm trying to remember what that Windows program was, that took a 8G dvd and made a 4G image of it so well.

DVDShrink?

That's it, DVDShrink. Thanks, JD.

It seems like there was a program in Linux that I had success using to shrink DVDs other than K9copy. I think that it was DVD95 Converter (packages are usually called dvd95; the name is a reference to 9 GB and 5 GB (unformatted) DVDs), but I'm not one hundred percent certain. I remember it being very easy to use. These days I usually use a DL disk when I want to make a DVD copy, so I don't need to shrink the image.

From the DVD95 Sourceforge page:

Conformément aux dispositions de la loi DADVSI, DVD95 ne contient pas de code permettant de contourner la protection des DVD vidéos, ce qui rend impossible la copie des DVD commerciaux.

Which translates as, "Does not work on encrypted commercial DVDs."

If that's the case, then it must have been something else. Perhaps it was just K9copy that I used. I'm not sure.

DVD::Rip seems to be badly packaged on most distributions. It's a bit of a PITA to install on Slackware, but once you got all the dependencies, it works great.

> It's a bit of a PITA to install on Slackware,

I found that to be a bit of an understatement the last time I tried. :) It's on Slackbuilds.org now, so maybe it would be easier.

Yeah, something like 60 dependencies. I intend to include it soon in my extra repository.

http://www.microlinux.fr/mled.php

> Yeah, something like 60 dependencies

From memory, most of those were other perl modules. So it might be possible to install it from CPAN and eliminate a lot of the headache. But I found other tools that were easier to install and never bothered.

I found the old archives, it was the combination of DVDDecrypter and DVDShrink.