[ale] DVD ripping tools & distro of choice?

[Rich Faulkner]

I'm looking at starting w/a couple TB's for storage.  Will grow from there.
Still haven't addressed redundancy of the data but will cross that bridge 
once I know what s/w tools I'll be using.  

I do know I'm not building anymore Windows boxes if I can at all help it.
Moving friends off of Windows is more what I'm doing these days and 
this project will be no different.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "adam" <prozaconstilts at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] DVD ripping tools & distro of choice?


> 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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> 
> Of course, if you want to fully archive your DVD and not transcode it, 
> then dd is your best friend ever:
> 
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/me/movie_backup.iso
> 
> Then, when you need to read it:
> 
> mount -o loop /home/me/movie_backup.iso /mnt/movie_backup
> 
> 
> Hope you have lots of disk space!
> 
> Adam
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