On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 00:08 +0000, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works > > like on > > Windows systems, though. > > I've ran it through crossover office - not through vanilla wine though. > It does work, but there are limitations. For one thing, it didn't see > the DVD-ROM, and the file browser also didn't work (just showed up > empty) but it could open an ISO.
These bugs/restrictions are long gone. These days DVDShrink in recent Wine is fine, and provided you set your Windows version to XP in the winecfg tool you can read direct from a DVD drive. This will even work on AMD64 if you have an update-to-date installation of Sid. > So I used vobcopy -m to grab (and decrypt) the files, k3b to dump it in > an ISO, and then use DVDShrink to squeeze it onto a 4.4gb DVD. > > There is a native linux tool called k3copy. It works quite well, quite > fast too. DVDShrink seems to give slightly better quality copies, > although it was hard to tell on my old CRT screen There are a number of native shrinking tools available now, for both GNOME and KDE (and the console). Shrinkta and Thoggen are a few examples of the GNOME tools, I think the latter uses GStreamer (not sure on that though). I don't copy many DVDs so I haven't had a chance to exercise them all, but DVDShrink I know how to use and can use it relatively quickly, so that's what I tend to use. > Hans > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
