What's the error? I've run dvdrip for a long time and don't get any errors.
Embarassing, but I needed to change the CHANGE_ME paths to eliminate the errors.
> 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. dvd9to5. If you don't put a blank dvd into the drive it'll leave a DVD image under 4.7GB. I do my DVDs with both dvd9to5 and dvdrip (at 192Kbps MP3 audio, 1500Kbps video) and the quality is all but perfect (1800Kbps video should easily clear up the very very small lose).
I've been experimenting with dvdrip and it seems like if I want perfect image quality I'll only save about half the space and the process is such a mess. It's time-consuming and lossy. I think I'll stick with: dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd and pay a $2 storage fee per movie instead of $1. That's perfect quality, all the features, and full menus. I could see it if you're trying to fit a movie on a CD or a single-layer DVD, but it doesn't make sense to me for hard disk backups. I wish there was something like FLAC for video so you could make a perfect backup and the only option to be concerned with would be time vs. space. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
