The Trinity desktop (TDE) has k9copy, the new release of TDE, a few days ago, runs on Wheezy and Jessie. You can just install k9copy + depends, which are light compared to bundled apps these days.
I really like/prefer Handbrake but it does not install, from wheezy-backports..another thread. Greg On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:06 PM, ~Stack~ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I prefer to have a digital backup copy of the movies I have legally > purchased. Mainly because I am too lazy to get up and go to the DVD > shelf whenever I want to watch something. :-) > > My preference for years has been to have an ISO file because disk is > cheap and if I need to trans-code for $portable_device_of_the_moment > going from near-original to $format_of_the_moment is trivial and not > nearly as messy as going from $yesterdays_preferred_format to > $format_of_the_moment. Thus, I have really liked k9copy. It is trivial > to set up, yank out the previews and silly "unskippable" > banners/warnings/messages, and get a raw ISO file. > > For those who don't know, the lead dev of k9copy decided he was done > back in 2012. And Debian yanked the package shortly after (for obvious > good reasons). I still have my old Debian Lenny box that I boot up, rip > my latest purchase w/ K9copy, and shutdown. (VM's have been flaky for me > trying to rip to k9copy; so an old box is what I use) > > It seems that someone is taking up the flag for k9copy and actively > updating it. See here: k9copy-reloaded.sourceforge.net > > I just found out and for me, this is exciting news! I am hoping to hack > on it during some time off next week to see if I can get it to run on a > updated system. > > So the question for the Debian list is: > * Has anyone tried the compile out yet? I am tempted to use my current > Wheezy box simply because it is my dev machine and I have most > everything ready to test on, but I worry about some of those newer > library files required (note: I haven't looked at all of them in depth > yet). Then again, I have a Jessie machine that I have been testing on > for the past few months that I don't care if I break. It would have the > newer libraries and is in freeze so there shouldn't be much > volatility...Just curious if anyone has any experience they would like > to share before I dig in and hit the same issues someone else has > already solved. :-) > > * Anyone else use K9copy? Curious if there are any fans out there still. > > * Anyone have a better solution to K9copy? I know there are some really > good alternatives for trans-coding purposes (eg: handbrake) but I don't > know of any that will do ISO while keeping the important bits and > stripping out the junk. > > Thanks! > ~Stack~ > > -- Peace Greg Madden
