[ale] DVD ripping tools & distro of choice?

[adam]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 21:43 -0400, Rich Faulkner wrote:
>> Question:  What (if any) DVD ripping tools can you recommend
>> for busting movies down to HDD?  Hardware for this new server 
>> I have in mind will be a recycled AMD X2 4200+ w/2G a basic 
>> system drive and whatever for storage (1-2TB).  Thinking of 
>> Mythbuntu for the platform unless anyone has a distro already in 
>> service that they'd highly recommend for that task........Rich
> 
> I start with DVD Decrypter.  You'll have to google it.  It is Windows
> but if you run winecfg and set compatibility mode to Win98 it will work
> well under Linux.
>  
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Handbrake + [insert OS here]

handbrake makes it amazingly simple and intuitive to archive your DVD 
collection. It does use libdvdcss, so the medibuntu repos are required 
(or vlc installation if you're on a windows or OS X platform).

It has removed support of some of the more common container formats in 
the most recent releases (avi), but in truth, avi is old and needs to die.

I prefer MPEG4 container + h264 codec.

Adam