[gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Mike Myers]

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
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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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RE: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Covington, Chris]

Why don't you just get a $40 Cyberhome CH-DVD300S DVD player and watch any regions and PAL as well?

Chris


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From: 	Mike Myers [mailto:fluffymikey@gmail.com]
Sent:	Wed Mar 08 16:43:52 2006
To:	gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject:	[gentoo-user] dvdrip help

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,
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[gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Mike Myers]

I'm having a problem with dvdrip.  I emerged it and when I try to run it 
it just says:

[filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode...

but it never actually does anything.  That message will stay there for 
indefinitely until I kill it.  It doesn't give a gui or anything.  Is 
there a way to fix this?  Or, is there an alternative way to rip/create 
a dvd to remove the stupid region codes?

Thanks for the help,
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[gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Mike Myers]

Hi everybody!

I'm having trouble with the dvdrip program.  Whenever I run it, it
just gives me:

[filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode...

but doesn't actually do anything.  I don't get a gui or anything.  Is
there anything I can do to fix this?  Or, is there an alternative that
I can use to rip dvds and redo them to remove the stupid region codes?

Thanks for the help!
Mike
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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Mike Myers]

I'll try that out.  I'm using a laptop with a pentium M though.

On 3/8/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
> capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
> safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
> Frank Zappa
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Mike Myers]

Basically, because that wouldn't help when I bring it to somebody
else's dvd player.

On 3/8/06, Covington, Chris <Chris.Covington@plusone.com> wrote:
> Why don't you just get a $40 Cyberhome CH-DVD300S DVD player and watch any regions and PAL as well?
>
> Chris
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Mike Myers [mailto:fluffymikey@gmail.com]
> Sent:   Wed Mar 08 16:43:52 2006
> To:     gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject:        [gentoo-user] dvdrip help
>
> 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
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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Saturday 11 March 2006 23.37, Mike Myers wrote:
> I'll try that out.  I'm using a laptop with a pentium M though.

Then maybe it's a bug in the ebuild (either DVDrip or transcode).

Thierry

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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Mike Myers]

I think I found out what might be wrong.  I found a thread in the
gentoo forums where people were having similar problems with laptop
dvd drives.  It seems to have something to do with newer dvds and
these lower speed drives.  I guess I'll have to find another dvd
writer entirely and use that instead.  Thanks for the help though!

On 3/11/06, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 March 2006 23.37, Mike Myers wrote:
> > I'll try that out.  I'm using a laptop with a pentium M though.
>
> Then maybe it's a bug in the ebuild (either DVDrip or transcode).
>
> Thierry
>
> --
> The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
> capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
> safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
> Frank Zappa
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Alan]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> I'm having a problem with dvdrip.  I emerged it and when I try to run it 
> it just says:
> 
> [filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode...
> 
> but it never actually does anything.  That message will stay there for 
> indefinitely until I kill it.  It doesn't give a gui or anything.  Is 
> there a way to fix this?  Or, is there an alternative way to rip/create 
> a dvd to remove the stupid region codes?

I actually get the same thing when I run it (mostly stable x86, some
~x86).  Emerging the ~x86 version and got the same thing :( 

A couple of options.

 - dvdbackup, dvd9to5 and lxdvdrip seem to work nicely enough
 - I've heard that dvdshrink (windows software) will run properly under
   wine.  Put in dvdshrink into a forums.gentoo.org search to get more
   details (I haven't done this myself).

Alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 02:43, Alan <alan@ufies.org> wrote about 'Re: 
[gentoo-user] dvdrip help':
> A couple of options.
>
>  - dvdbackup, dvd9to5 and lxdvdrip seem to work nicely enough

I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF.  There should be an ebuild in 
bugzilla; but it's trivial to install.  It's not a X application, but 
it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the "heavy lifting" 
for you.

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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Roy Wright]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

>I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF.  There should be an ebuild in 
>bugzilla; but it's trivial to install.  It's not a X application, but 
>it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the "heavy lifting" 
>for you.
>
>  
>
Just tried acidrip which is mplayer based instead of transcode.  It 
worked fine on the
one DVD I've tested with.

HTH,
Roy
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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Zac Slade]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 22:55, Roy Wright wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF.  There should be an ebuild in
> >bugzilla; but it's trivial to install.  It's not a X application, but
> >it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the "heavy lifting"
> >for you.
<fanboy alert>
Here here!  ANDREW Rules! 
</fanboy alert>
> Just tried acidrip which is mplayer based instead of transcode.  It
> worked fine on the
> one DVD I've tested with.
You should give ANDREW a shot.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124130
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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Alexander Skwar]

Chris Frederick wrote:

> This is a transcode problem.  There's a couple filters for transcode 
> that are bad.

For me, the ImageMagick filters weren't good. When I do USE=-imagemagick,
everything's fine.

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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Chris Frederick]

Mike Myers wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I'm having trouble with the dvdrip program.  Whenever I run it, it
> just gives me:
> 
> [filterlist] (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode...
> 
> but doesn't actually do anything.  I don't get a gui or anything.  Is
> there anything I can do to fix this?  Or, is there an alternative that
> I can use to rip dvds and redo them to remove the stupid region codes?
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> Mike
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> mike@yaay.us
> http://www.yaay.us
> 

This is a transcode problem.  There's a couple filters for transcode 
that are bad.  Get rid of (or rename) the 
/usr/lib/transcode/filter_compare.so and 
/usr/lib/transcode/filter_logo.so files.  I had the same problem and I 
searched the net for hours to find this, and this is what fixed it for me.

I don't know if this is a problem with transcode, or if it's a ebuild 
problem that causes those filters to hang, but I re-emerged dvdrip and 
transcode several times and those files were recreated every time.

Hope that helps

Chris Frederick

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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Monday 13 March 2006 17.34, Chris Frederick wrote:
> Mike Myers wrote:
>
> This is a transcode problem.  There's a couple filters for transcode
> that are bad.  Get rid of (or rename) the
> /usr/lib/transcode/filter_compare.so and
> /usr/lib/transcode/filter_logo.so files.  I had the same problem and I
> searched the net for hours to find this, and this is what fixed it for me.
>
> I don't know if this is a problem with transcode, or if it's a ebuild
> problem that causes those filters to hang, but I re-emerged dvdrip and
> transcode several times and those files were recreated every time.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Chris Frederick

Yes, thanks, it did help.

However, now that I can compare, Acidrip/Mplayer is much faster than 
DVDrip/transcode and, as far as I am concerned, the results are not worse.

Thierry

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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:32:59 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> >  - dvdbackup, dvd9to5 and lxdvdrip seem to work nicely enough
> 
> I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF.  There should be an ebuild in 
> bugzilla; but it's trivial to install.  It's not a X application, but 
> it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the "heavy
> lifting" for you.

There's also k9copy, in portage.


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Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:32:29 -0600, Mike Myers wrote:

> 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.

I've just tried K9copy on my amd64 box and it works well.


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