[mythtv-users] OT DVD ripping software

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:53:31 +0000, you wrote:

>Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
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>> I figured this would be the list that knows, whats currently the best DVD ripping software (preferably free but will pay for it if I have to).
>> I’ve been using AVOGO to rip MP4 files but just too many duds lately
..google is turning up nothing but pyramid affiliate links
..so checking with the hive here as to what are you all using?
>
>Depends on what you want. I generally do my ripping on my Mac ...
>
>If I want an image of the DVD (complete with annoying non-skipable warnings etc) then I just use dd. As long as the DVD libs are loaded then it should be just a matter of "dd if=/dev/xxx of=${filename} bs=1M" to copy the entire disk to an image file. (where xxx is whatever your optical drive is called, and £{filename} is a file you want to put the image in.

NO!  Do not use dd to rip optical disks!  It does not handle the error
correction necessary for that job.  Use readom ("read optical media"),
which does it correctly.

>If I want to convert things, then I use Mac DVD Ripper Pro.