[SATLUG] Ripping DVDs to Nokia n800 in Linux

[Aaron Hackney]

Thomas King wrote:
>> I am posting this for a friend in Education backup in Illinois. They are looking
>> for a solution to rip a DVD to a format for a Nokia n800.
>>
>> I'll forward any suggestions to him.
>> TIA
>> -Aaron
>>
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>> Does anyone know the procedure for ripping DVDs and encoding them to play on
>> the nokia n800 (using linux)?
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>>
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>
> Is there a particular format they are looking for? "It supports a number of
> music and video formats, including AAC, MP3, WAV, AMR, RealAudio, AVI, 3GP,
> MPEG-4, and others."
>
> It seems as simple as ripping a DVD to one of those formats using a normal
> application into one of the video formats. Once the file is made, upload it to
> the Nokia via USB or whatever connection it uses. Is there some detail we're
> missing?
>   
Yes, he was pretty vague. I guess if someone could just suggest a good 
ripper that would maybe rip down to mp4 would be my guess. Needs to be 
linux based.
Thanks
-A