How to Rip DVDs on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty)
Posted by Ed in Linux on June 25, 2009 | View Comments
One thing that I really enjoy is to be able to watch my DVDs from any computer in the house, or from (almost) any of the TVs, without having to deal with physical media. The way I do this is to “rip” the movies to my media server, and then transcode them to a smaller format. This guide will discuss part one of this — ripping a DVD. I know there are several utilities which will do this for me, but since I have very specific needs, and like things to be as automated as possible, I wrote a script to do this (naturally).
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