From: Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:57:03 -0700> When I click on "RIP Title" in dvdrip, I get a permission denied error > regarding Project.pm. All of the other options in the other tabs are > grayed out and unmodifiable. If I try to run the program as root, it > says it cannot open the display. Does anyone know what's wrong here? > I've tried amd64 and ~amd64 versions. > > I'm trying to make backups of my DVDs that are smaller than the full > 8GB but don't lose any noticeable audio or video quality. I'd be > happy to just select the audio and video track I want and rip them > without any transcoding. Would anyone recommend a program other than > dvdrip for this? I would use mplayer's mencode, but mplayer can't > play my "The Life of Mammals" DVD so I don't think mencode will work. > I believe that DVD is copy protected. > > - Grant > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Hi Grant, Try the following: As user (not as root) become root with "sux" not with "su". Or as user gove root "access permission" to your X server with "xhost" (-> see manpage). I f this does not help: sux to root and check the DISPLAY environment variable, whether it is correctly set. Should something like ":0.0" or "localhost:0.0". The above are fixing (may be) the symptoms, not the cause of the problem. These are comeing from the wrong permissions set for the file Project.pm . ...but when it is emerged, it should be correctly set. At this point I have no clue, whether wrong permissions are given to that file/to those files of package. Only my two cents, your currency may vary... HTH and keep hacking! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
