I'll try that out. I'm using a laptop with a pentium M though. On 3/8/06, Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
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