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So, you have a nice shiny DVD with your favorite movie, and your dog chews it to pieces. If only you had ripped that movie to a file that you could burn to a new DVD, or play on your favorite media player. In this video tutorial I show those of you outside of the United States** how to do this in Linux.
First we need to install several libraries, including libdvdcss2 (for help installing this see my previous video here). Then we install a DVD ripper (I chose Thoggen because it is quick and easy). And that’s it, you can rip away to your heart’s content!
Thoggen: http://thoggen.net/
HandbrakeGTK: http://handbrake.fr/
The DVD ripping program I chose was Thoggen for its ease of use and simplicity. It automatically rips the DVD to .OGM (Ogg media) format. VLC and other media players should be able to play this without a problem, but if you need help installing codecs install ffmpeg (see my video here where I explain it) as it contains a whole codec library. Other DVD ripping programs can save to other formats, so feel free to install and use the ripper of your choice.
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**In the United States it is illegal to break the encryption on encrypted DVDs. It violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), specifically the anti-circumvention provisions. So while copying your DVDs and keeping a copy can be considered fair use, the act of breaking the encryption using this guide is illegal in the US, so please only do this if you live in a country where you won’t be breaking any laws by doing this!
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LOL. It’s fair use, but it’s illegal anyways. Welcome to the American court system.
Of course, it’s fair use to play a DVD, but wait, when you play it, it copies the data into RAM! Oh, crap, that’s unauthorized reproduction. :\
So here’s my answer:
$ dd if=/dev/dvd of=~/DVDs/MyDVD.iso
Done. No encryption broken, and the DVD is backed up. For those who don’t know, that simply copies the DVD bit-for-bit to your hard drive and stores an image of it. You can play that image by using a CD emulator such as CDEMU. Now, technically, that should be legal to do, but we’re talking about the MPAA here… When was the last time they cared what was ‘fair’ or ‘legal’ before suing anyone?
I was once sued when I e-mailed them and called them “assholes” they sent me a “cease and desist” letter to “un-send” my last e-mail.
I wasn’t sure what to do so I ignored them.
Or you could use K9Copy (http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/) to backup your DVDs.
How about converting .ogm to other formats like .avi, .mov, .mpg, etc.
I’m assuming something in terminal like:
ffmpeg -i somename.ogm -vcodec mpg -sameq -acodec -f mpg somename.mpg
or is that not correct?
Thanks!
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Tutorial is nice too.
Thanks but I like Nathan’s suggestion better!
dd if=/dev/dvd of=~/DVDs/MyDVD.iso
I wrote a tool to rip DVD-VR discs as generated by DVD camcorders etc.
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/dvd-vr/
I must look at integrating it with thoggen.
It’s illegal here in England too, at least technically, although I am not sure that it would stand up in court.
Ripping CDs, creating MP3s, creating mixtapes/CDs, and recording movies off the TV are also illegal here. Proving that it not being legal doesn’t mean people don’t do it, nor does it make it wrong!
Were it legal here, I’d use AcidRip, but as it isn’t, I have to take the fifth.
@Nathan
I was actually hoping to break the encryption, but thanks anyway. =D
@Roger
Coverting from .OGM is easy when you get FFMPEG.
If you’d like to rip directly to another video format you first need to make sure you have the codecs installed and HandbrakeGTK will help you rip it to those specified formats.
Thanks guys for your support! =)
Stumbled across this from Digg, but it turned out to be the same method I already use to rip DVDs. My question is: where did Nixie find that desktop background shown in the video? Me likee!
Other apps
AcidRip (for linux) works for converting a DVD directly to an avi
file. located in the hardy repos. takes about 40min for a dvd to
avi. pretty simple app. In the hardy repo.
DVD::rip (for linux) does DVD ripping and encoding. Lots of features
with this app. Takes about 35-40 min to rip a dvd to avi. It’ll
output avi, ogm, mpeg1 suitable for vcd, and mpeg2 suitable for
svcd/dvd. There are a few dependencies that are missed on install
that you may want. You can see them via the debug tab. located in
the hardy repos.
Dvdbackup will extract all (or selected) titles as found on the dvd.
In the hardy repos.
Ogmrip is an application for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI, OGM,
MP4 or Matroska files using a variety of codecs. In hardy repo.
In the other direction, DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and
CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of
video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer. i have found
this app very easy to use. in hardy repo.
There are others for linux Im sure, but these are all that quickly come to mind.
One can install dvd decrypter using wine. When installing DVD
decrypter, you might want to install it under Windows NT 4.0. You set
that in winecfg. Remember to add the cdrom as a device in the device
tab of winecfg. Takes about the normal time for DVD Decrypter on
windows, and if you enable audio through winecfg, you get to hear that
stupid song when the dvd is finished reading to iso.
Off topic: Regionset is a tool that lets you view and modify the region code of DVD
drives.
@Der KlempnerNo and
@Nixie
I’d like to see how Nixie puts a video together and what software she uses to do this. They’re always professional, easy to watch, and well put together! Would be nice to see how… :)
@Nixie:
Well, you’re not to be satisfied, are you? :P Can’t break the encryption, that’s illegal; but then it’s no fun to back them up without breaking anything.
The other option is to mail the DVD out of country, have your non-American friends rip it and send it back. :P But seriously, I’d rather just do it here and I won’t tell if you won’t tell.
Interesting trick, I’ll have to try it on knoppix.
I have no idea.
I am using HandBrake on OpenSuse 11.1 and results are really impressive
Nice shirt Nixie.
You could try Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum which a friend told me. It could help you rip DVD (including protected DVD with CSS) for playback on iPod, iPhone, Zune, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, Smart Phone, etc. with only three steps. Also let you set the movie effects.
http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/dvd-ripper-platinum.html#115
@tracyjumpNo Gravatar ….thats windows software, wine would be to big of a pain in the a$$ for that app.
matt
This free DVD Ripper is the most powerful one that I have used before. It has great power to rip DVD to video of all formats and edit DVDs. You can free download here:
http://www.freedvdripper.org/free-dvd-converter.html
For mac:
http://www.freedvdripper.org/free-mac-dvd-converter.html
http://www.topsreviews.com/reviews/dvd-ripper-review.html
Unbiased reviews and side-by-side comparisons of DVD Ripper give you enough information to research the ins and outs of a particular product.
Is there a search facility for your website.
thanks.
Hey! All this is wonderfull for normal DVDs, but waht for DVD-Video that has Copy-Protections like Bad Sectors?
There is out there a good “Windows” application to make a “Copy/Rip” of a DVD, it is called DVDDecrypter, it runs fine under Wine on Linux; perfect for allmost all DVDs (can generate an ISO, or DVD-VIDEO folder, and also De-Mux Video and Audio channels of your choise…
Here is the good part: Make a BackUp of each episode of a DVD-Video series, rip Video and Audio DeMuxed, but without re-encode (about 10 minutes per DVD), then ReMux them onto an AVI without ReEncoding (about 1 minute per DVD), so now transfer them to a SetTop HDD Player, so can see on TV, like if it was the DVD (no subtitles).
All this can be done in Linux with DVDDecrypter and Avidemux.
But wait, there are our there some DVDs that has BAD Sectors (yes original ones with BAD sectors), so DVDDecrypter can not copy them.
Really is it legal to sell some product with defects? It seems yes, since such DVDs has defetcs, some sectors are unreadable, neither by any dvd reader, no PC DVD, neither DVDVideo players, no one can read such sectors, so they are selling a damaged product… also more, most of them had another protection callled “ilegal navigation structure”, such means that navigation structure is also damaged, so why is it legal to sell them?
Easy, it is legal because it is done for proteccion purposes, so why it is not legal to me to make a backup, it is also done for portection purposes, to protect my money inversion, so the original discs do not get scrashed…
So with this on mind it is totally legal to make any “Personal BackUP” of anything you own and you have buyed legaly, also it seams to be legal for the author to put something to protect, but with theese two things on hand, it is also legal to BackUp thems, since Author put unreadable sector, the author is not letting you to do something that you are able to do legally, so this is unconstituonally, so the author is doing things that are not constituonal.
Happy weekend!