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

Yes. You can use k3b or download Video-DVD:rip.

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:42, Matthias Titeux wrote:

Is there a solution to copy the VOB file on the Hard disk and then transcode them with mencoder or transcode ?

there's a little program called vobcopy out there somewhere. I can't remember where I found it, but google should be able to track it down. You mount the DVD like a normal data disc, vobcopy then copies the vobfiles over to one big vobfile and decrypts it while it's at it. Really nifty. It can also break it up into 2gb files, if you're using a fat32 partition for that. Hans P.S. I do remember where I got it - on the cover DVD of one of this year's Linux Format mags