[SATLUG] Ripping DVDs to Nokia n800 in Linux

[Aaron Hackney]

Thomas King wrote:
>> 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.
>   
Thanks, I'll pass it on ;)
=Aaron