Day 7 – Rip It, Rip It Goo… Nevermind.

August 7th, 2009 | Author: VooDooStevie

Today was an interesting day. I was off from work to get my license renewed but after I was able to sit and play around with a few things.

I downloaded a game called PlaneShift which is a free MMORPG. Not as good as Rapellz… Man I am missing that game. I should just install it on the Windows machine to play it. But I digress…

I said I wanted to Rip and Burn DVD’s as one of my points of usage for a computer, so I played with that. However I ran into some issues.

Stupid me forgot to get the package to read encrypted DVD’s (which is basically EVERY movie DVD out there) so I had to install it. If you are trying to watch movies, do this:

Install the libdvdnav4, libdvdread4, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly packages.
If you would like to play encrypted DVDs, press Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type the following into the screen which appears, followed by the Enter key:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
Enter your password if prompted. The libdvdcss2 package will be downloaded and installed from a website.
Insert a DVD into your drive. It should open automatically in the Movie Player.

Now that should work. I realized I didn’t do this when I tried using DVD95 to rip my DVD and it wasn’t reading ANY of the disks I was putting in.

After I took that step. I was able to Rip the DVD to an ISO for a 4.7GB DVD with no problems. Then I burned the DVD and it played fine on the PS2 I have, but on our normal DVD player it was kind of iffy. Oh well, guess I will have to try a different approach later on. But I got the menus and everything which was kind of cool.

Time-wise it wasn’t that long compared to ripping it as a movie file (an Xvid AVI for example), but using DVD95 you really lose a lot of quality when converting to the lower size DVD so Ripper Beware!

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