Comments on: How to Rip DVDs on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty)

By: Bo

Bo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:05:47 +0000

Never mind. Figured it out. I was manually mounting the DVD drive. I used the mount /dev/cdrom command, and it mounted it where your script could find it.

Great script BTW. I’ll be looking at your how to on transcoding next.

Thanks!

By: Bo

Bo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:53:31 +0000

I’m stuck right here:

“Checking for DVD-ROM……..not found.”

My DVD drive is mounted, so I don’t see what is going wrong.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:38:04 +0000

Oli: Ask and ye shall receive! http://www.edsalisbury.net/linux/how-to-convert-dvds-and-tivo-mpeg2-videos-to-h-264/ To answer your question, I use HandBrakeCLI to convert to H.264. Glad to see that the guides have been helping people. Thanks for the comment!

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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:31:56 +0000

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By: Oli

Oli — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:43:01 +0000

This is great, thanks! What program do you use to transcode these to H.264? I can’t wait for part 2!