Playing DVD drive

[David Bandel]

On 5/15/06, Federico Voges <ftc at ftc.com.ar> wrote:
>
>  Net Llama! wrote:
>  On Mon, 15 May 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>
>
>  It's /dev/sr0 rather than /dev/hdc. Puzzling.
>
> Any console or ncurses based dvd ripping program? I found everything
> related to "DVD RIP" to be graphical mode...
>
>  dd
>
>
>  That won't work unless the DVD is not encrypted. ;)

That's what libdvdcss2 is for, unscrambling "encrypted" (they're not
encrypted) DVDs.  CSS is content scrambling system.  Any zone can be
unscrambled.  If it were really encrypted, you'd need a key of some
kind.  This is all part of "DRM", digital media inconvenience.
Designed to prevent the myrmidom from making fair use backups, so they
have to rebuy the movie when their kid scratches the disk.

As for console-based ripping, the reason you can't do this is all the
ripping programs I know of have a way to preview via mplayer.  A bit
hard to preview a rip on a console.

Just run dvdrip on a system you have X on.

>
>
>  To just rip (i.e., make a copy without encryption), you can use dvdbackup.
> It also allows you to copy just one chapter (aka movie without
> menus/extras).
>
>  If you want to reenconde (DVD9 -> DVD5 or DVD -> divx/xvid/whatever),
> you'll need something else. You have all the tools available (mencoder,
> transcode among others), but I don't know of any  non-graphical frontend for
> them.
>
>  In the graphical side, the best one I saw was DVD::RIP (perl gtk frontend
> for transcode and company).
>

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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