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I'm looking for a software to copy / clone DVD's on Linux. I currently use DVD Shrink and Clone DVD on Windows, but i prefer to get rid of my Windows and just use Linux. Does Linux offer a program to burn DVD's?
I've tried to do the 'Open Files' in DVDShrink but no luck. Also a weird error, so i believe my wine isn't working correctly.
The funny part is. First i had Windows and Linux. I tried DVD Shrink in wine and compressed a DVD. I then figured i wouldn't need Windows anymore, so i reinstalled Linux on the whole disk. And now it doesn't do wine anymore. Very weird.
I'll try to figured it out but anymore help would be appreciated.
you probably didn't configure wine correctly. in your ~/.wine/config file, there's sections where you have to define your drives. cd/dvd devices included.
example:
[Drive J]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "DVD"
"Filesystem" = "vfat"
; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
[Drive R]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom1"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "CD-RW"
"Filesystem" = "vfat"
; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
"Device" = "/dev/cdrom1"
i try to make all my devices and parititions the same in wine as they are in windows, since i've got wine configured to use an existing windows install and not a fake windows install directory. don't know how you did wine, so that may not apply to you. but i'm fairly certain you need to finish the wine config.
I've been reading the Wine documents for a bit. There is a line about puting a 'nohide' in your FSTAB. If you do now, you might get an File not Found error. (the same i get) and i know haven't got my cdrom/dvd drive in my fstab.
Tobad i am at work and cannot test it.
As for the configuration example, i have it the same as you. Except i use "Filesystem" = "win95".
Why waste so much time trying to get a windows program to limp along in Linux? Especially when there are plenty of Linux-native programs that will do the same job?
AcidRip is a sweet little program that offers all the functionality of DVDshrink, and it gives you more flexibility in terms of compression/bitrate/etc. It was a little tricky to set up, because it depends on GTKperl (and I didn't have Gnome on my box) and mplayer/mencoder. But like Crashed_Again pointed out, it was written by acid_kewpie, so you can find lots of advice/answers here in the forum.
Check it out, it's definitely easier to set up than wine, and it's intended to run in Linux, so it'll be more stable. I finally gave up on trying to get wine to run anything other than solitaire and minesweeper (in fairness, I must say that it runs these extremely well).
I've read the acidrip home page but it says that it is primarily focused on DVD to DIVX conversion. That is not what i want. I use DVD Shrink to compress the Video on a DVD and then burn it back to a DVD.
I've only glanced the acidrip page, so i might have missed it.
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