On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:08:03PM -0500, Peter wrote: > Well, if Richard's suggestion about USE=dvd-read does not work, make sure > the device is NOT mounted. Some dvd writers access hardware directly and > therefore mounts will mess with that. Otherwise, check the program's > usenet groups and bug reports.
I got it working by setting the USE variable in package.use. Odd, it used to work without needing that. > Unfortunately, it's been my experience that for DVD authoring and anything > more than plain copying or burning files (i.e. most things beyond > mkisofs), linux is a lot of work. Best to have a M$ partition and use > whatever software you need for a particular task. dvd::rip has worked well for me in the past for making divx files (via transcode) from a DVD. For ripping a DVD9, compressing, and burning to DVD5 I find that using DVD Shrink under wine works quite well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
