Matthias Titeux wrote:
Hi,
May mother in law brought back some zone 1 DVD from L.A. We are in France (zone 2) and unfortunatly my DVD player is a RPC-2 firmware one. Before switching zone (5 swicth allowed only) on this computer (running SuSE 8.1 pro) which is at my work, I would like to know if there is any mean to rip the DVDs without switching the zone. I want to make SVCD out of these DVD so my mother in law will be able to play those movies on her standalone DVD player. (Switching the zone on her DVD player is NOT an option, 5 time swicth only... and maybe she will like to see those movies more than once !).
So I am using Mplayer, Xine, DVD::Rip and my DVD player is a Matsushita SR8588. If needed I can use a Windows programm (Vmware with Windows 2000...DVD playback and ripping working great.) but I would prefer a Linux solution.
Is there a solution to copy the VOB file on the Hard disk and then transcode them with mencoder or transcode ?
Thank you
Best Regards
Matthias
Oh, I didn't notice before my last reply I think you said you tried VideoDVD:rip huh? It rips any region for me. If you have problems and don't mind using windows progs try dvdx. It rips to vcd/svcd/avi. dvdx website: http://www.labdv.com John S.