Hi Rob, Have you tried DVD Shrink? Its free and I got it running under wine a while back.
Matthew On 25/04/2012, Rob Malpass <li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all > > > > I think I asked something similar a few months back but please bear with me > - as ever this is driving me mad... > > > > I want a simple program to turn a DVD into a video file - purely for > personal use - need the space in the living room - I'm not doing anything > knowingly nefarious here. For the moment, let's not concentrate on which > format and therefore which codec. For what should be not far short of a > simple job - I'm coming up against all sorts of weirdness trying to do it > either free or with Linux or both. > > > > I've tried k3b, which just hangs > > I've tried k9copy to produce an iso - which works but not sure what good > that actually is - save for burning the iso back to optical media again as > backup. > > I've tried dvd:rip which seems to work - until you play the avi back and > you > get the equivalent of an analogue TV picture which hasn't been quite tuned > in well i.e. diagonal lines and crackled unintelligible sound. > > > > I must be missing something - and I'm getting to the stage where I'd > happily > pay for something that works. With umpteen DVDs and a smaller living > room, > need something quick (in every sense). > > > > Surely there must be a simple program out there to rip DVDs easily. Any > ideas anyone? > > > > Cheers > > Rob > > -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
