[ale] DVD ripping

[Brian Pitts]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> Ok I've just started playing around with DVDs on my Linux box. After 
> playing a few, I decided to rip them so that the DVD would be on my hard 
> drive allowing me to play from hard drive instead of the DVD player. I 
> realize that DVD ripping is more involved that CD ripping, but this is 
> getting to be very frustrating. I have installed DVD::rip and tried 
...
> 
> Any ideas? If not clear it's ok to contact me off list.

I'm personally in favor of backup up the entire disk with dd or copying 
the vob files with a program like cpdvd or vobcopy for archival 
purposes. More than likely you'll end up transcoding this material in 
different ways for different devices over the coming years.

-Brian