Sorry to interject here, but I’ve read all the posts below and thought jumping in here might save people a lot of time and effort regarding ripping and transcoding in Linux, plus I have never read such a collection of misinformation and utter rubbish regarding the ‘supposed’ inabilities of Linux rippers and the amazing capabilities of Windows DVDFab. The following screenshot based on trial version of DVDFab: I do not *recommend* and encourage this option as it goes against the FOSS philosophy. You can use popular MS-Windows application such as DVDFab to rip encrypted DVD’s and DVD Shrink to shrink them to smaller size. => Wine – It is an open source software for running Windows applications on other operating systems. => Hybrid – It is a multi platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) Qt based frontend for a bunch of other tools which can convert nearly every input to x264/x265/Xvid/VP9/… + ac3/ogg/mp3/aac/flac inside an mp4/m2ts/mkv/webm/mov/avi container, a Blu-ray or an AVCHD structure. => FFmpeg – A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Please note that AcidRip, is a graphical frontend for mencoder. Mencoder dvd: // 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq: vbitrate= '1200' -vf scale -zoom -xy 640 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br= 128 -o /nas /videos /my-movies /example /track2.avi Based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, which makes it fairly easy to add additional encoding formats/codecs in future.Can encode from local directory with video DVD files.Language Selection for audio track (no subtitle support yet though).Supports title preview, picture cropping, and picture resizing.Easy to use, with a nice graphical user interface (GUI).It attempts to hide the complexity many other transcoding tools expose and tries to offer sensible defaults that work okay for most people most of the time.

Thoggen is designed to be easy and straight-forward to use. Thoggen is a DVD backup utility (‘DVD ripper’) for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+ toolkit. thoggen – DVD backup utility (‘DVD ripper’) for Linux Install the dvdbackup package using the apt command: It has the advantages of being small, fast, and easy to use. dvdbackup – Tool to rip DVD’s from the Linux command lineĭvdbackup is a tool to rip video DVDs from the command line. Handbrake-cli is DVD ripper and video transcoder for command line users.

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