GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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Debian Packages: video-dvdrip transcode vcdimager mplayer-686 subtitleripper mencoder-686 acidrip ripmake vobcopy
There are legal issues around your rights when you purchase a DVD. It would seem reasonable that having purchased a DVD the owner has the right to watch that movie however they choose and to have a backup copy in case of accident.
Making a backup of your own DVD is simple with the right tools.
Because of uncertainties around legal issues some of the required
packages are only available from a particular archive (by adding the
following to /etc/apt/sources.list using
editsources):
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main |
To backup DVD movies you can use the command line ripmake tool (Section 93.5.3). It provides a simple to use command to read a DVD into and avi file or for creating an svcd.
Acidrip (Section 93.5.1) provides a clean, simple and self documenting GUI for backing up DVDs (generally to AVI). It generates an avi file, which is generally quite good quality. This can be converted to SVCD, if you wish to have a playable CD backup, with ripmake (Section 93.5.3). SVCD tends to be of lesser quality.
Ogmrip is a Gnome application, currently (March 2005) under development, for ripping and encoding DVD into DivX/OGM files using a wide variety of codecs.
Video-dvdrip (Section 93.5.2) provides a more complete and less attractive looking tool for working with video DVDs.
A simple script from the Internet (mencvcd) also provides a one stop shop for backing up a DVD as SVCD. The underlying command line tools (Section 93.5.3) provide direct access to the same functionality.
With these tools you can make backup copies (in numerous compressed video formats) for your personal use of videos that you own. You can copy the video onto your hard disk for archiving and watching directly. You'll need lots of disk space though (a DVD movie contains up to 9GB and converting needs further disk space).
