Is there any application other than dvdbackup, that would rip the dvd and save it on the hard drive? I dont mind paying for it.

thanks

video::dvdrip, acidrip

linux:/home/gill/acidrip-0.14 # ./acidrip
Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at AcidRip/interface.pm line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at AcidRip/interface.pm line 1.
Compilation failed in require at AcidRip/acidrip.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at AcidRip/acidrip.pm line 7.
Compilation failed in require at ./acidrip line 11.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./acidrip line 11.

linux:/home/gill/acidrip-0.14 # rpm -q gtk2
gtk2-2.2.4-125.4

I have perl-5.8.3-32, what am I missing here?

Alright, I instaled the dependencies except glib and gtk2. I am getting these errors:

linux:/home/gill/Glib-1.043 # perl Makefile.PL
Including ApiDoc pod.
Deleting Glib from doc.pl's $data
*** can not find package gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.0
*** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PATH
at Makefile.PL line 77
linux:/home/gill/Glib-1.043 # updatedb
/usr/bin/find: /media/floppy: No medium found
linux:/home/gill/Glib-1.043 # locate gobject
/opt/gnome/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/opt/gnome/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3

I know where that is, how do I add it to the Makefile?

i use vobcopy. it decrypts/copies the .vob files. you need decss, too. and mayhaps libdvdnav or libdvdcontrol or libdvdplay. it's been a while since i installed it, so i forget exactly which libdvd*(s) you need.
vobcopy.org
oh, wait. libdvdread and libdvdcss , and the corresponding -dev packages are what you need, according to the website.

Thank you very much, can I burn .vob files as video dvd? Its working perfectly on my machine.. i am just not sure how to go from .vob to a dvd iso so i can burn it. How do you do it? You saved me a lot of headache.. thanks again.

it's been a while since i did that (the backing-up-dvd's thing)...as i remember it, i'd rip the vob, then convert it to an avi (they're much smaller than an mpeg) and burn that to a cd.... i used transcode, and it was all from the command line...
hold on a bit. i used to have all this software to do what you're doing, but that was about a year and a clean install ago.

here's a good site for ripping dvd's into mpeg4 (divx):
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goetti.../html/dvd.html
i think this is where i got my info when i last set about backing my dvd's up. i would usually rip the vob, then do all these commands (on the site above) to adjust the video bitrate and audio and whatnot, and get the end result down to cd-size. i would then put the video and emovix onto a cd, so i could watch it on just about any x86 computer
emovix: http://movix.sourceforge.net/Docs/eMoviX/

you may not have the development package for gobject installed. Is /opt/gnome/lib/ part of your /etc/ld.so.conf so that programs can find them?
acidrip is written by acidkewpie, one of the moderators here, and is a frontend for mencoder, part of the mplayer package.
video dvd::rip is a frontend for transcode. it can make vcd and svcd images along with divx files. it can also make svcd and vcd images for you and burn them.
sometimes i used dvdshrink under wine. it will make a dvd iso image for you.
maybe acid kewpie will help you with acidrip.

I was able to rip the dvd using dvdshrink, it gave me video_ts files but not audio_ts.. vobrip did the same thing. Do i need audio_ts because K3B is asking for it.
Thanks

Nevermind, it worked just with video folder. Thanks to everyone.

if you want the audio_ts file, you can just create it in the directory next to video_ts. i used to have to do that for a windows iso creation program.

K3b made audio_ts for me too.. but it was empty. I wonder what the function of that is.

it's for audio dvds. very few people really know that dvd was designed to replace cd's for pure audio, not just mixed video/audio. even fewer have seen a dvd audio disc!

really? out in california, Fry's sells oodles of audio dvd's. i never buy them 'cause my car doesn't play them (so they'd be useless half the time). i thought audio dvd's were new, since Fry's is one of those newer-electronics-and-stuffs stores....