On Monday 27 September 2004 03:56, fx fraipont wrote:

fx fraipont wrote:

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Martin Love wrote:

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Hi FX,

On Sunday 26 September 2004 16:34, fx fraipont wrote:

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I have tried from a terminal windows as root the above command, but it says

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that it cant find dvdbackup. I have tried a find and it cant find dvdbackup, but I know I have it installed. I installed via a Red Hat RPM as per one of the previous posts.

I must be really stupid or something.. I just can't seem to get this thing to work.

Thanks,

Martin

locate dvdbackup

will tell you where it is installed.

mine is in /usr/bin/dvdbackup so you can try again

/usr/bin/dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o /home/yourname/

fx

I'm sure your getting board of this now. OK, I tried the locate command, but it couldn't find it.

I tried to install the RPM again, but I think it crashed before it finished. I have also tried to install the RPM with Red Carpet, but it says it's not a valid RPM.

I have tried to compile the dvdbackup.c file, but this also seems to fail with all sorts of errors.

gcc -o dvdbackup -ldvdread dvdbackup.c

Here is a snip of the first few lines.

linux: # gcc -o dvdbackup -ldvdread dvdbackup.c dvdbackup.c:33:32: dvdread/dvd_reader.h: No such file or directory dvdbackup.c:34:30: dvdread/ifo_read.h: No such file or directory dvdbackup.c:35:31: dvdread/ifo_print.h: No such file or directory dvdbackup.c:295: error: parse error before '*' token dvdbackup.c: In function `DVDWriteCells':

Is there another way of installing dvdbackup or am I doing this totally wrong.

Thanks,

Martin

Additionally, you can find dvdbackup and kdvdbackup rpm's for SuSE9.1 here:

http://fxf.homelinux.org/~fx/

FX Is there another site where I can get the rpms for suse 9.1 as I can not get into the above site.

Thanks in advance Basza

On Monday 27 September 2004 10:44, Martin Love wrote:

Hi Basza,

On Sunday 26 September 2004 23:27, Barry Rumsey wrote:

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Is there another site where I can get the rpms for suse 9.1 as I can not get into the above site.

Thanks in advance

Basza

I have the RPM on my PC at home. If you still need them let me know and I'll email then to you tonight when I get home.

Thanks,

Martin

The rpm ( SuSE 9.1 ) for kdvdbackup can be found at http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12698 The errors in the log file of kdvdbackup where from a physically damaged dvd. Must include a option to read again damaged areas, for example 20 times, and then exit with an error. That is the way dvddecrypter for win does. Maybe in the next version. The dvdbackup to be compiled needs the dvdnav and dvdplay libraries installed, resp. dvdnav-devel and dvdplay-devel rpms. Personally I use the kdvdbackup to backup the DVD to the hard disk. Then the DVD shrink to make it 4.7. It works with current wine. It can't load any file or DVD from it's GUI, but accepts the DVD's main IFO as a parameter. So, make a association, for example associate the video_ts.ifo to be opened with DVD shrink, and voila :) When double-click the video_ts.ifo of the ripped DVD the DVD shrink will fired up, ready to shrink it ..... Hope to help.. Nick Protopapas

On Monday 27 September 2004 00:46, fx fraipont wrote: [snipped]

For Libdvdcss, it's a bit more complicated, since it is technically illegal to watch dvd's under linux, even if you own the dvd.

"Illegal to watch" under linux? Not anymore ;) http://www.turbolinux.com/news/040722.html Haven't really read it but I wonder if SuSE will bundle it, too... [...] -- - E - on SUSE 9.1 | blackbox 0.70b2 | Panasonic CF-L1 Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11GP | copperwalls was here ;) "Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth." - Matthew 5:3

"Joe Morris (NTM)" writes:

You would still need libdvdcss to be able to read encrypted dvd I would think, but I wonder if you could do it with dd if=/dev/dvd of=movie.iso, then use k3b to burn the iso. Maybe I'll try that to test. I have remotely burned CDs with a similar method.

Most movie DVDs are longer than the 4.7GB capacity limit of a DVD+/-R media. You will need dvdshrink to further compress the video contents to make things fit. As mentioned before, dvdshrink is a windows program but can be used under wine, but dvdshrink later than 3.0beta won't work. The dvdshrink.org site no longer offers 3.0beta for download, but you can still find it here: http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/dvdshrinkold/ -Ti

Giorgos Tsarmpopoulos writes:

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:43:12 -0700 (PDT), Ti Kan wrote:

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As mentioned before, dvdshrink is a windows program but can be used under wine, but dvdshrink later than 3.0beta won't work. The dvdshrink.org site no longer offers 3.0beta for download, but you can still find it here: http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/dvdshrinkold/

dvdshrink 3.1 & 3.2 works under wine and crossover office. You just can't navigate with "open disk" or "open files" to your dvd-rom drive. But you can assosiate in konqueror *.IFO files to be opened with wine (or cxwine if you're using crossover office) and then open konqueror and goto /media/dvd, or wherever you have your dvd mounted (or ripped), and click on VIDEO_TS.IFO. That will open dvdshrink which will start analyzing your dvd. After that you can adjust the compression settings and backup.

Thanks for the tip! Associating .ifo files under konqueror to invoke wine and dvdshrink is a neat trick. -Ti

Barry Rumsey writes:

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dvdshrink 3.1 & 3.2 works under wine and crossover office. You just can't navigate with "open disk" or "open files" to your dvd-rom drive. But you can assosiate in konqueror *.IFO files to be opened with wine (or cxwine if you're using crossover office) and then open konqueror and goto /media/dvd, or wherever you have your dvd mounted (or ripped), and click on VIDEO_TS.IFO. That will open dvdshrink which will start analyzing your dvd. After that you can adjust the compression settings and backup.

Thanks for the tip! Associating .ifo files under konqueror to invoke wine and dvdshrink is a neat trick.

This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you associate files under konqueror. With ifo files it does not remember the application.

konqueror -> Tools -> Configure konqueror -> File Associations -Ti

On Friday 01 October 2004 08:02, Ti Kan wrote:

Barry Rumsey writes:

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dvdshrink 3.1 & 3.2 works under wine and crossover office. You just can't navigate with "open disk" or "open files" to your dvd-rom drive. But you can assosiate in konqueror *.IFO files to be opened with wine (or cxwine if you're using crossover office) and then open konqueror and goto /media/dvd, or wherever you have your dvd mounted (or ripped), and click on VIDEO_TS.IFO. That will open dvdshrink which will start analyzing your dvd. After that you can adjust the compression settings and backup.

Thanks for the tip! Associating .ifo files under konqueror to invoke wine and dvdshrink is a neat trick.

This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you associate files under konqueror. With ifo files it does not remember the application.

konqueror -> Tools -> Configure konqueror -> File Associations

-Ti Thanks

Barry