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Ripping DVDs ... and MythTV



 Hey guys, 

This came up at the meeting tonight.  Jarod mentioned that he rips 
video DVD discs just using dd, but this is not really possible unless 
they are unencrypted (you will get an ioerror).  So, for anyone that 
wants to rip their CSS encrypted DVD discs (95% of them are), then you 
need to use something like dvdbackup or k9copy.  Here are some links, 
which are particular to Gentoo, but give you an idea of where to go 
from there... 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup_a_DVD

Here is a new protection, which in addition to CSS, makes video DVD 
decryption difficult... 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS_Protection

And here's how to rip those discs... 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup_a_DVD#vlc

Carlos Reyes mentioned that he wanted to learn how to backup an 
encrypted video DVD to XviD.  Here's how to do that... 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder#Xvid

However, x264 is a more recent codec which may result in better rips 
if you are starting from scratch... 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_DVD_mencoder#H264_.28MPEG4_Part_10.29

And if you ever wanted to know how to convert any video (xvid, divx, 
avi, mpeg, qt, mov, etc) to a DVD video, then here is how to do 
that... 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_a_DVD:Encode

And finally, here is how to burn a DVD... 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_a_DVD:Burn

And for those of you who don't know about MythBuntu, it may be the 
solution if you are worried that MythDora will not provide you a 
consistent upgrade path.  All following MythBuntu releases claim that 
they will be released in conjunction with the official Ubuntu releases 
every six months, and that the upgrade process will be painless... 
http://www.mythbuntu.org/
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 

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