[plug] DVD movie

[Gavin Chester]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:57 +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> > I'm looking to make 'backups' of my 'home' movies on dvd and was
> > wondering what gpl tools others are using to do this.  I had thought to
> > use mplayer + mencoder + libdvdcss.  Is there a foolproof (that fool is
> > your's truly ;-) ) way to do this - maybe even a nice gui point and
> > click way?  (sorry, all you CLI warriors)
> >
> > Gavin
> 
> The best tool I've found is DVD::rip, which uses transcode. My
> experience is that transcode produces better rips than mencoder. It's
> in standard ubuntu repositories. It's fairly easy to use - just work
> across the tabs left to right.
> 
> This particular piece of software was an absolute nightmare to
> intstall under Slackware, but is point-and-click easy in ubuntu :)
> 
> -Patrick

Thanks, I had read a howto that talks of doing the task with the same
tool, but because it was 4 years old I thought that there might be some
other app choices by now.  I guess that is the way I'll  be trying,
then ;-)

Gavin