On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've used Mandrake as my primary operating system for the last few years. > Believe it or now I've just now decided to play DVD's on it. I don't know > anything about the various formats of avi, mpeg, divx etc. I'd like to be > able to stick a DVD in an rip it to a format that I can then burn on a cd > that I can also put in my standalone player. From everything I've been > reading it looks like I need to burn in the vcd or svcd format. Is there a > faq out there that gives an overview of how all this stuff fits together and > works? > > Part 2 of this email is why has Mandrake broken everything that I need to be > able to use DVDs? It's been a real pain trying to track down rpms and > figure out what I need to make the silly thing work.
There are heaps of tools for ripping at: http://apps.kde.com ..as well as freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net -- Tue Dec 24 10:50:00 EST 2002 10:50am up 13:49, 5 users, load average: 0.26, 0.33, 0.23 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Too ripped. Gotta go.
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