-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:11:09 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:27:34PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Wackojacko wrote: > > > > Well, that's not quite the goal. It doesn't address the MacroVision. > > Part of the impetus is to remove MV so she (actually I) don't have > > to recable. A full copy with MV removed would be ideal, but just the > > movie demacroed would be ok. > > > > NB: She is not trying to defeat copyrights etc. She wants to copy > > her own DVDs which she has purchased to make them more convenient > > for her to use herself. > > how sad is it that this is still illegal in the US... > > > > > > >the recordings are. I use DVD-ram and you can simply copy over > > >the .vro file and rename it .mpg. Avidemux to edit it then use > > >transcode, dvdauthor etc. to shrink/reauthor the DVD. > > > > That's something to bear in mind. Her current plan is to use > > DVD+R, not DVD-RAM. > > > > I've used dvdrip for pulling just the movie out and turning it into an > mpg. I've also had good luck with k9copy for keeping a disk intact > (menus etc) but making it smaller for using with single layer dvd's. > > dvdrip uses libdecss (or whatever the current one is) to remove the > css crap, not sure about k9copy. Note that neither one is very "fast" > (dvdrip can take hours on my .5 gig athlon xp mumblemumble). both are > available from debian-multimedia. > > A I second the dvdrip recommendation. I am also ripping & encoding my movies to play on my local lan. Dvdrip uses transcode to encode, very processor intensive, i.e. it will use all you have, so the more you have the faster it goes, amd64 x2 4400 takes about three hours for a average movie length. You need debian.multimedia in your sources.list, for libdvdcss. Nice gtk2 program. - -- Greg Madden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7KqlaefA3q8KcpARAlk9AJ0evxMgc1i26tTmkzpi+QtTCfHp4gCeP2jg u8AXUz724hy25Gc3cCMy6/E= =Zqqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
