[SATLUG] Ripping DVDs to Nokia n800 in Linux

[Thomas King]

> 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
>>>
>>> ------snip------
>>> Does anyone know the procedure for ripping DVDs and encoding them to play on
>>> the nokia n800 (using linux)?
>>> -----snip-------
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>
>> 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

On the command line, I believe transcode is one. For a GUI, dvd::rip is a
perl-based app (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/). There are quite a few of them,
actually. There is one application that is loosely cloned from a Windows DVD
ripper and library manager, but the name escapes me right now. I saw it while
perusing through Automatix on my last Ubuntu install. If the DVD is encrypted,
they'd need libdvdcss, something they'll need to think about installing since it
is not "legal". :(

Other folks will have more suggestions, I hope.