Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help

["Mike Myers" <fluffymikey@gmail.com>]

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
>
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