Playing DVD drive

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Monday 15 May 2006 11:30, David Bandel wrote:
> >
> >  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
<well-founded rant snipped>

I've found both ways true.  Sometimes dd works great.  Others it seems to 
barf.  What I've started doing is to open the DVD in xine or mplayer, watch a 
few seconds of the movie, close it, and then do my ripping...  I believe I 
found that suggestion on this list a long time ago.  I've seldom had issues 
since.  

dd if=/dev/dvd of=mynewmovie.dvd
	Can throw in some flags if you like

or, if I can afford the wait, I just rip and encode it at the same time using 
transcode and the script I wrote to do console-based dvd ripping/encoding:

vob2xvid /dev/dvd  mynewmovie
	Rips and encodes from /dev/dvd and spits out "./mynewmovie.avi" (the location 
can be set inside the script




>
> 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.

or run it by "ssh -X" from your GUI box.

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