The app of choice from what I've read is Mplayer, DVD-Rip, and transcode using Xvid. The tricky part is getting all that to compile since lot's of libraries and supporting software is required. I wish someone would package the whole thing in rpms for SuSE 8.1 and let us know where to get it. Including in the package the decryption library for commercial DVDs as well. As a Christian, I am not going to go and rip stuff that I haven't paid for, so no worries there. It is just such a pain to build all that software into a seamless package that will insert in SuSE 8.1 nicely. I sure wish they had done that with the MPlayer package they included in 8.1. I'd like to have fun with the possibilities in the software and not lose a whole weekend trying to figure out the difficult build. Too many bleeding edge CVS libs and layered stuff that isn't compatible with the older libraries currently in the 8.1 distro is the problem. I'd love a simple straightforward tutorial in building the complete package to be compatible with SuSE. Dow Adagilson B B da Silva wrote:

DVD Decrypter is my choice for ripping (just copying) dvd to my HD over Windows. What about ripping DVD in linux? What are (if there are) the best programs? I prefer something that rips subtitles (embeded or not) too.

Also I need something to compress to DIVX OR MPG. thanks for any help a.

Dow Hurst wrote:

The app of choice from what I've read is Mplayer, DVD-Rip, and transcode using Xvid. The tricky part is getting all that to compile since lot's of libraries and supporting software is required. I wish someone would package the whole thing in rpms for SuSE 8.1 and let us know where to get it. Including in the package the decryption library for commercial DVDs as well. As a Christian, I am not going to go and rip stuff that I haven't paid for, so no worries there. It is just such a pain to build all that software into a seamless package that will insert in SuSE 8.1 nicely. I sure wish they had done that with the MPlayer package they included in 8.1. I'd like to have fun with the possibilities in the software and not lose a whole weekend trying to figure out the difficult build. Too many bleeding edge CVS libs and layered stuff that isn't compatible with the older libraries currently in the 8.1 distro is the problem. I'd love a simple straightforward tutorial in building the complete package to be compatible with SuSE.

Maybe this is a start? http://packman.links2linux.de/ Even though it's in German, it's pretty self-explanatory. Also, install "checkinstall" and instead of doing "make install" use "checkinstall" so that an entry is made to the rpm database -- that way YaST shouldn't complain and mess up any non-suse stuff you install.