Playing DVD drive

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> >> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> >>>>>> 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. ;)
> >>> It works fine on encryupted DVDs for me.  I used it as recently as
> >>> yesterday.
> >>>
> >> But can it be reliable? dd doesn't perform any integrity checks, does
> >> it? I was under the impression that's why there are CD rippers. Don't
> >> know about DVD, but it's probably not easier. Am I wrong?
> >
> > dd has *always* worked for me.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never thought of dd as a "ripping"
> program. To me, ripping means extracting specific information (music
> tracks, scenes, features) to a file. Whereas I've always used dd as a
> way to grab a bitstream from a device without much regard to the content
> or format.
>
> Exactly how would you do that with dd?

For me, ripping & encoding are two separate processes.

I use dd to rip the DVD image, and then mount it via loopback.
xine/mplayer can play it from there without difficulty.

I've also used dvdrip to encode specific chapters from a DVD to discrete
video formats.


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