AcidRip For Linux Rips DVDs With Two-Click Ease
Linux only: Just over a year ago, we offered a semi-easy way to rip DVDs in Linux to video files. Had we been up on AcidRip, we could’ve saved ourselves about 900 words.
Okay, that’s a bit of overstatement, especially if you like to have a lot of fine-grain control over how your video files turn out. But AcidRip works as a two-click ripper if you want it to. Load a DVD in your drive, start AcidRip, hit the “Load” button in the upper-right corner, then hit “Start” at the bottom. After a good wait, the kind you’re used to if you’ve done this before, an .AVI file of the longest track on your DVD arrives in your home directory, looking like the standard-quality, 700MB-ish video we hear is all over the file sharing networks these days.
From the single command window, though, you can change most of the ways your DVD gets ripped. You can split up a DVD into multiple files for multi-CD rips, change the audio or video codecs, rip a different or multiple video tracks, add subtitles, check out a preview of your final product at the settings you’ve chosen, and save all your tweaks to save time later. AcidRip uses the ubiquitous Mplayer and Mencoder for all its work, and doesn’t sweat an encrypted, commercial-release DVD.
AcidRip is a free download, and can be found in many popular Linux distributions’ repositories.
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I used this about a year ago, and found it to be terrible. I hope it has improved since I'm tired of carrying my DVDs around.
StageCraft
@powel212: Does that decrypt them as well? Doesn't seem like it would.
Every time I've tried AcidRip, the files always come out with strange sizes - about 535 megabytes. Dvd::rip has always treated me better.
SudhaDampyman
There is a better way. Changed my life.
- insert DVD
- open DVD as folder
- copy file01.vob fil02.vob...etc to your hard drive.
- in terminal run:
"cat file01.vob fil02.o2 file03.vob > file.mpg" without the quotes.
you are done. You have successfully backed up your dvd to file in ten minutes or less.
I love linux
powel212
AcidRip is pretty good, but I find that I get better quality rips out of Handbrake or Avidemux (although I'll probably try AcidRip again now that I'm using Jaunty, since I never did understand why Xvid files didn't look as good in AcidRip on Intrepid).
zoomZAP
Handbrake is the best ripper by leaps and bounds.
TalbotAutesion
I haven't had to decrypt any of the DVDs I own. Sorry I don't have an answer for that. For GUI I have found both OGM Rip and Lemon Rip to be satisfactory. @HeartBurnKid uses Linux: the taint of OS's:
powel212
@powel212: Even simpler:
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/home/dmsuperman/movie.img
Later, when you want to watch it:
mount -o loop /home/dmsuperman/movie.img /mnt && vlc dvd:///mnt
This is a direct copy.
dmsuperman
Just installed it. Pointed it at an ISO. It locked up. I must be an idiot.
Generally, I use custom scripts with vobcopy and 2-pass mencoder when backups make sense. Happy to share if anyone is interested. Also have .TiVo file conversion scripts that convert .tivo --> .avi.
I prefer to use xvid since it is compatible with my old network media players (under 720p resolution only). There's nothing worse than switching to the latest wiz-bang video codec and finding later that your hardware can't play those files. NOT!
Someday, h.264, qpel and mkv will be supported on newer devices in my home, but that isn't now. ;(
TheFu
@TheFu: sudo apt-get remove acidrip
TheFu
Development has been stalled on AcidRip for quite some time, and it pales by comparison to Handbrake in terms of speed.
CameronPan
+1 OGM Rip
or for exact copy,
dvdbackup -M -i /dev/dvd -o ~/dvdbackup
dontodd
@dmsuperman: vlc vlc... you can rip and convert to fyi... and much more see the wiki at wiki.videolan.org
@dontodd: I'm looking at setting up a linux mediaserver that would be able to rip a DVD on insert. This seems close to what I want.
Do you know any way to trigger a command on DVD insert? I suppose I could use a cron job, but that could get very clunky very fast.
Ryan Gooler
If you want a 1:1 copy... In a terminal: cd
vobcopy -v -m /media/cdrom0
cd
mkisofs -v -dvd-video -o ../MOVIE_Name.iso .
You'll need libdvdcss2 for decryption.
GardnerWinecor