VLC dvdripping isn't working
 

I have been trying to rip titles from my DVD collection to be placed on hard drive and played on streaming devices in my house. I haven't been able to get much luck from VLC for some reason. I have done it in windows but the video is not only glitchy sometimes but also it doesn't have any sound. I just tried several times in Linux and I don't even get a playable video file. What pretty much happens is that I slip in the DVD, open up Linux, Select media->Convert/Save->Disc and select the apropriate title number, then I choose the video format for it to save to (either as the first option or the youtube HD option). I press save and then I hear the disc drive start to whine and the motor moving at full speed and the progress bar starts to show activity. Then when it finishes, It goes right on to the next title instead of just doing the title I ask it to do. The supposed video file that it generated is only 3kB and there is no video contents on it. If I had done this in windows the video would be there but it would have no sound. What is going on here, why am I not getting a video. Do I need to download and install something? My distribution is the lastest version of backbox.

i suspect backbox simply isn't the right sort of distro for this sort of stuff, but i guess you already know that.

i take it you're not trying this as root?

in any case, VLC is certainly capable of ripping dvds, but from my experience it's not user-friendly at all.

you should use a dedicated software.

there's the additional aspect of encoding on-the-fly; you should probably first try to rip the dvd without compressing it, basically just copying its content to hard drive.
because the compression is a science in itself and will require additional tutorials and whatnot to get it right.

I've never succeeded in doing this with vlc but I've managed to do it with OGMRip before!

What distro should I use, I have a liking for ubuntu studio. Also I am wondering if I wasn't able to rip because the proper programs that allow Linux to read encrypted DVDs were install.

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according to this backbox is "an Ubuntu-based distribution developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments", nothing to do with ubuntu studio. all i said is that vlc is not designed to make dvd ripping a user friendly experience.

I was only wondering what distro would be ideal for this.

Looks like I am getting these failures because of encryption.

Any distro really. Backbox uses Ubuntu repos so I would imagine it can also use ppas. Makemkv and Handbrake are your friends. Neither will work without libdvdcss though. Many guides for enabling dvd playback on *buntu.

I know about that, but I think I installed libdvdread4css or something of the sort. What I liked about VLC is that it was ripping at a much faster speed. Ogmrip right now appears to be working but it's taking a considerably larger amount of time to rip, about 30 minutes for a 47 minute title. I wish it was possible to rip at a higher speed than that because I have a bunch of episodes to go through in my DVD set.

Have you tried k9copy? I've used it for quite a while and have only had one dvd that I could not rip. Very user friendly.

Will it copy an episode of a TV show from DVD in under an hour, and have a size of less than 500MB while retaining the best quality.

Also that program better be worth the effort in trying to install. I don't want to put in tremendous amounts of effort to install a single program that might just do the job with the same results as the other solutions that have been discussed here already. I simply wanted a way to rip dvds quickly with a small file size and great quality.

Oddly just posted this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post5455082

mplayer and mencoder is much easier and more stable at ripping than VLC ( commence flame war ;) )

I just ripped an episode from a DVD, now the audio is out of sync by like half a second.

baronobeefdip, are you sure this is the right attitude to get help with your problem? you are treating us like used car salesmen.
nobody's trying to sell you something.
and you'll have to put in a little more effort if you have such high demands. everything is possible with linux.

the reason why vlc was so fast is probably because it either didn't re-encode the video at all or used some really fast, low quality algorhythm.

each and every of the applications mentioned in this thread have a large number of options and preferences and even more documentation to get aquainted with. it seems you want them to "just work", ignoring all technical details - only to later complain that they didn't.