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- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22If you replace the kernel, Driver system, GUI, Update system, Software installation system, text-mode user interface and make it POSIX compliant... windows might be all right.
- bieber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Wait, wtf? Why would I go through all that ***** to install DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter with Wine, when I could apt-get install a native DVD ripper and/or copier (I personally use k9copy and DVD::Rip).
- eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Also, this howto is out of date. For one, it tells you to enable DMA and DMA is enabled by default on Dapper. Two, it's using an old version of Wine. The new versions don't need winesetuptk as it has a program called winecfg built in. Again, for up to date howtos check the Ubuntu wiki pages for Wine, DVD Shrink, and DVD Decrypter.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Eh. They're watching me anyway.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I've had trouble with DVD::Rip... but then again, I'm a Linuxtard.
Give me workin DVD authoring/Ripping tools, a simple Qt-based GUI for WiFi configuration, less plug-and-pray hardware, and more games... and I'm ready to switch completely. - bieber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Four letters for you: DMCA
- biohzrd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Two words for you: Fair Use.
- xorian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Pretty useful actually. There aren't many (if any) applications that can beat DVDDecrypters simplicity in my opinion anyway, so the ability to use them on Ubuntu is definitely nice ;)
- GameGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This HOWTO is extremely out of date.
Why?
- WINE no long uses the ".wine/config" file for configuration.
- I'm pretty sure "winesetuptk" is defunct now. (winecfg is now used for all configuration, which probably isn't necessary at all...)
- The libdvdcss2 instructions aren't good anymore... You'd use the PLF repositories now.
Here is an update HOWTO on the Ubuntu wiki for DVD Shrink in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVDShrink
Enjoy!
(That should have been dugg instead of this...) - eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Check out K9Copy. Good, easy DVD ripping for Linux. It's in the Ubuntu repositories and there is a debian package for the new beta on the Ubuntu wiki. ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/K9Copy )
- Stemp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8thoggen - DVD backup utility based on GStreamer and Gtk+
k9copy - Clone DVDShrink
dvdrip - perl front end for transcode
acidrip - ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder
dvdbackup - tool to rip DVD's from the command line
dvdauthor - create DVD-Video file system
etc..... Need more ? - bieber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Because then people like stmiller, who uses PPC, can't run it. Software should be machine independent, to the greatest extent possible.
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8a reminder to turn OFF the "Check for updates?" functionality in DVD Decrypter so you don't phone home to the feds (since the developer was busted).
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6But I use PPC Linux! Grrrr....
- jessejoedotcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Or just apt-get install k9copy...
- Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm so sick of the content industry manipulating the government into banning products with perfectly legitimate uses. I'd love to be able to rip one of my LEGALLY PURCHASED DVD movies so I can stick it on an SD card and watch it on my Pocket PC or some other portable media player.
- bieber, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Ah. One of the things I hate most about Windows has to be the fact that it's gotten so ***** many people developing software that will only run on x86 hardware...
- MBro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The info is out of date. You don't need winesetuptk anymore. Just install wine, then run winecfg, configure your drives, install the programs, go back to winecfg and add them to the installed programs list if they're not already there. Simple as that
- dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Most of the info is probably more or less directly applicable to other distros so kuddos for that
- psilanthropist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3USELESS GUIDE !!! dvd shrink has been linux compatible for a long time. the project is called xDVD Shrink. look it up on sourceforge.
Also a Linux port was made called K9Copy that is even in the Ubuntu official repos. - i440, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5There has been a lot of things about Wine on Digg lately. I don't think becoming dependent on Wine is such a great idea. Use it only for things you can't live without.
- zacmccormick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm not bashing anything, I don't hate linux. My comments about explorer.exe had absolutely nothing to do with aesthetics, as that is largely subjective anyways. My point was regarding the stability of the architecture. As for explorer containing "hacks", would you care to elaborate with some concrete technical information about these hacks?
You said...
"Linux has three native applications for every windows application in a given domain (save for gaming)"
Which just further supports my point about thet quality of software on windows being 2X where it is 1X on linux. Citing the quantity of available applications and vendors doesn't say _ANYTHING_ about the quality of them, you completely missed that point as well. I'm not a windows fanboy, there are a lot of things about windows I don't like, but the UI is definitely not one of them. I am critical of all of the operating systems, and I have found that people who use operating systems other than windows are invincibly ignorant to any criticism of their respected platform. It's really a shame that it has to be that way, but I do understand why people inherently hate microsoft, it's easy to hate the big guy. - becominglumberg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@jimxugle-->
If you need Qt based Wifi, try something other than Ubuntu (i know, i know, that is heresy...) - mrbass, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Your right the howto is out of date March 2005. I got tired of updating it ever two months which I did for about 6 months or so. It's one thing to update a howto ever 2 months and another to completely resinstall (no vmware doesn't fully test DMA, etc.) and try getting dvdshrink working with the new version of wine.
Wine changes so much it's ridiculous. There were third party GUI apps to setup wine. Wine configuration files location varied. Yes I know wine finally has their own setup builtin now. When it first came out it just showed the GUI only and made no changes to the config files whatsoever. Once people got dvdshrink and dvddecrypter working they had to pin their apt-resources to prevent wine upgrades. All and all it was cool to get it working but longterm just wasn't practical. I'm on mac now but plan to mess around again with Ubuntu in the near future. - MBro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3He is correct, this come out two or three releases of ubuntu ago and it is now much easier to install decrypter and shrink. When it was current this was the best info there was on decrypter and shrink however. Props to Mr. Bass on that. He's a great community member.
- arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Or you could just save yourself a lot of effort and install dvd::rip.
- egrabosky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3anyone know of a simple way to convert xvids to dvd's and burn without using wine? I used to use convertxtodvd (divxtodvd) in windows. This is for the purpose of burning content that is legal and not mhollywood movies or anything of course.
- Tolpero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No point in running a dvd ripper through wine/cedega.. If you are using a debian based distro (like ubuntu is) just add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian/ sid
(and off course change the sid if you are not running unstable)
Then issue a simple command:
sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get install acidrip
That's it.. You now have a powerful and easy to use native linux dvd-ripper/transcoder installed and ready to use... - hypodermia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Try k9copy and you WILL be happy. If you want to rip to AVI files, try OGMRip.
- bieber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you for mentioning DVD Styler. I've been looking for a WYSIWYG DVD Authoring tool I could use for ages. Even if it does suck, it's better than using dvdauthor at the command line (this is one of those areas where WYSIWYG tools _are_ very useful). It's amazing how much useful stuff there is that I manage not to notice until someone offhandedly mentions it...
- mrbass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Have linux rippers caught up with ARcoSS copy protection yet? I haven't been following it but that was the main reason at the time to get DVDDeccrypter working on linux. ARcoSS is just fake vob errors meant to throw dvd ripping programs for a loop. Since LightningUK got shutdown by Macrovision he can no longer update the ARcoSS protection to keep up with the newer DVDs. For windows there is dvd43, dvdfab decrypter, ripit4me and anydvd$ that keep up quite well with the newer dvds being released that contain newer versions of ARcoSS protection.
- eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Because the howto is old, check my comments at the top.
- threethirty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There is really no reason to do this but it's cool anyway. All you have to do is fire up apt and get similar or better software.
- CarbideTipped, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"how about getting dreamweaverMX......fireworksMX......Photoshop"
http://www.codeweavers.com/ - thund3rstruck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2k9copy and k3b... simple and effective.
- adbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've found that K9Copy 1.0.2 which is available through apt-get does not work properly. So I downloaded the source for K9Copy 1.0.4 and installed that and it works great. I can copy a dvd in 15-20 minutes.
Here is how I got it going in Dapper:
http://abowman.com/2006/07/18/scratch-copies-of-your-dvds/ - stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Technically, you purchased a license to view the content of the DVD. You don't own what is on the DVD. They don't sell a disc of content. Only a license to view. It's a mess legally with DVDs. They aren't quite like CDs when it comes to stuff like this.
- mikm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1(The plugin, not the guide. It handles everything I've come across fine, though)
- opennet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I usually like to keep it relatively simple, all i know is that vmware works pretty decent...
http://www.postaroo.com/postaroo/Main?Action=VIEW_AD_DETAILS&AD_ID=498017&CITY_ID=82 - sawyer3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2can anyone help me out here?
in terminal when running 'sudo apt-get install wine winesetuptk' i get the following error...
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sudo apt-get install wine winesetuptk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
wine is already the newest version.
Package winesetuptk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
wine
E: Package winesetuptk has no installation candidate
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and it obviously doesn't install. i'm not sure why this is happening, as this tutorial says it sets up 'perfectly'. what does the 'referred by another package' mean?
help!? - psilanthropist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1sorry to disappoint u but DMA is turned on by default in most Lionux distros.
And thats y you'll never change ur mind about anything. once your mind is made up that its too complicated, its too complicated (period) - mikm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Flash player is easy (unfortunatley, it's out-of-date). Look at ubuntuguide.org
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you need DVDdecrypter here you go.
http://rapidshare.de/files/27733472/dyc.exe.html - colemanm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Talking about usability, flexibility, and stability on ANY GUI in Linux is basically just laughable. I mean, for open source products, they're decent, but come on, saying that they're the "most stable" thing out there just makes zero sense.
- neebick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Technically it has nothing to do with the legality of ripping DVD's but that ownership of DVD Decrypter changed hands from the developer (Part of the deal to save his ass) and the new owner (MPAA or whoever) changed the license restricting all usage. Now the question is if you believe in software licenses and for that matter ones that change after being agreed to.
- jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@bieber:
There's a gui for the Tovid dvd authoring app that works quite well. - greyfade, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1in a properly configured kernel (as is typical in major distros these days), that's the default and has been for a very long time.
...but you knew that, right? - pabster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Except dvd::rip blows goat chunks compared to DVD Decrypter?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1A buddy of mine wrote a similar script sometime back.
http://www.sirslappy.com/RIPDVD.txt - greyfade, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1K3b has support in that area. although i don't personally have experience doing it.
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