On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22.32, Mike Myers wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I'm trying to find something that I can use to rip and then remake > DVDs. I have some japanese dvds that won't play on almost any regular > dvd players because of the stupid region thing. K3b didn't seem to have > anything for doing that, so I tried dvdrip/dvd::rip. Whenever I run > dvdrip, it just goes to the next line and says "[filterlist] > (re)scanning transcode's module path /usr/lib/transcode..." and sits > there for as long as I let it without actually doing anything. I can't > seem to find anything to skip that process or anything. > > Can somebody please recommend another tool or show me how to fix > dvdrip? I'd really like to watch these dvds from something other than > my laptop. > > Thanks a lot in advance, > Mikey
Are you running an amd64 Gentoo? I have the same DVDrip problem here. My solution has been to emerge Acidrip and Mplayer - it is masked, but I have run into no problem so far, the results are as good as those I had with DVDrip/transcode and much faster. I have discovered it uses a newer codec however (FMP4) that prevents viewing the videos on older Xine install, but installing mplayer and/or vlc on those machines is a workaround. I guess it's a problem of building XIne with the right libraries but not every distribution makes it as easy as re-emerging in Gentoo. Xine on Gentoo amd64 works however. Now putting the video back on a DVD is another problem. I've been playing with DVDauthor so far but my standalone players won't play the DVDs (that do play on computers however...) Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
