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Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)

Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 29, 2006 19:58 UTC (Wed) by ehovland (subscriber, #2284)
In reply to: Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com) by bk
Parent article: Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)

Anything is better than the broken horror show that is dvd::rip.

This is the second time I have seen this sort of reaction to dvd::rip. That is really too bad. I happen to like dvd::rip, I find that it does exactly what I tell it to do and its limitations have more to do with transcode then with dvd::rip itself.

Combine that with the fact that dvd::rip is still actively developed on, it is still the best game in town for dvd ripping. And since I have a strong perl background I even have a chance at understanding the code.

It is almost time for a Grump Editor's guide to dvd rippers.


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Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 30, 2006 3:14 UTC (Thu) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link]

Unfortunately the editor of this fine publication lives in a jurisdiction where the ripping of dvd's is a crime.....

Illegal?

Posted Mar 30, 2006 5:23 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Not necessarily. And besides, linux.com belongs to OSTG and comes therefore from the same jurisdiction as LWN.net, isn't it so?

Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 30, 2006 12:32 UTC (Thu) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563) [Link]

Well - not if the editor were to test it on the DVD released with a history of Open Source (Starring Linus, RMS and others) which was not encumbered in any way, and thus should be legal to rip. Don't remember the name right now unfortunately :(

Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 30, 2006 19:14 UTC (Thu) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486) [Link]

You mean the one where Stallman sings? I have it...
It is called Revolution OS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A9GLO/103-4492863-2...
It is region free and without CSS encoding.
Good stuff, except for Stallman singing ;-)

The horror.... The horror....

Posted Mar 31, 2006 4:33 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

...Stallman SINGING?!!

All for the good cause

Posted Mar 31, 2006 17:57 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

The stakes are high. We'll throw in Linus too if we have to.

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