<div>My file server (with Gentoo) is headless... and xless, so wine's out of the question :-)<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Alfter</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@salfter.dyndns.org">mythtv@salfter.dyndns.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Sean Goodpasture top-posted (grr):<br>> rip it using dvddecrypter to clear the protection, then use something
<br>> like dvd shrink to shrink it. Unfortunately, I don't know of an all<br>> linux solution for these tough to rip ones. I mostly rip on my gentoo<br>> box, except with these guys I have to rip on a windows box.
<br><br>DVDDecrypter and DVD Shrink both work under Wine, last time I checked. I don't<br>use DVD Shrink much anymore (I usually transcode to H.264 with mencoder), but<br>DVDDecrypter works like a champ. There are two caveats:
<br><br>1) Wine needs to be set to run DVDDecrypter in WinNT4 compatibility mode.<br>2) A DVD needs to be in the drive and mounted before DVDDecrypter is started,<br> or else it won't see the drive. Once running, you can use the "load" and
<br> "eject" buttons to swap discs.<br><br>Even though DVDDecrypter hasn't been updated in some time (and won't be updated<br>ever again), I have yet to run across a movie it can't rip.<br><br>_/_<br>
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