Anybody have links to software that can rip DVDs? Have one that I need to rip to an .avi or .mpg so I can burn it to cds (not tons of content, so the whole fitting it on one cd won't really be a problem). Lemme know, thx.

-Chris

Oh man! You found the right place

We have a resident expert here: acid_kewpie who designed a program to do just that:
http://acidrip.thirtythreeandathird.net



Cool

hurrah for me!

When I try to execute ./configure, I get the following.

loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

... la dee da, what to do from here?

install a compiler from your distro cd's, gcc

Okay, got that, got libdvdread installed, but then when installing lsdvd...

[root@cornellcollege lsdvd-0.9]# make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
[root@cornellcollege lsdvd-0.9]# make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/chris/install_me/rip/lsdvd-0.9'
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin/install -c lsdvd /usr/local/bin/lsdvd
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris/install_me/rip/lsdvd-0.9'

???

What about it? you just installed it ok....

Hrrmm, well in perl Makefile.pl for acidrip, it says it can't find it.

yeah, realizing that I just have to change the directory once I get acidrip up and running, but it still doesn't like me.. lol, i'll let ya know in a little bit.

Yeah, can't get it to actually find lsdvd, doesn't matter where I point it to.

well can you run lsdvd by itself in a console?

No, I've been getting an error:

[chris@cornellcollege chris]$ lsdvd
lsdvd: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdread.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But not really sure as to why.

Edit: libdvdread.so.2 isn't in /bin (just making the assumption that it probably should be)

alrighty, now that I'm not at work I've been able to poke around a little more and I figured out the problem.

I guess libdvdread's base install directory is /usr/local/lib/, while lsdvd checks for it in /usr/lib/. Could probably change the base install for it in ./configure, but I'm not sure, and just copying libdvdread.so.2 to /usr/lib/ seems to be working.

Thanks tons for the replies though.. they keep me caring.

-Chris

ahh yeah it's that nasty error that i never ever could track down.... the compilation finds it perfectly, but coming to run it... nothing. freaky. but you guessed the solution yourself. welldone!

So, when it comes to ripping and encoding... DiVX doesn't seem to like me, the video has funky lines across it and is pretty messed up. Trying it w/ other codecs. Anything I can use that will typically be installed on a windows system (making cds for peeps on windows machines for work)? :-/

Edit: Turned off cropping and it seems okay... any explaination, wonderful resident expert? (I'm going to milk you just because you're here! )