Decent DVD rippers?

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 11:00 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Dear team,
> 
> what DVD rippers do we currently have in Debian?
> 
> Apart from avconv, mencoder and VLC - which all somehow allow to 
> transcode a DVD into a file - I only know of thoggen. While I like the 
> latter very much for its straight interface, it seems dead upstream 
> and does currently only allow to transcode to Theora/Ogg, so no xvid, 
> x264, schroedinger, VP8 and whatever codecs are supported by gstreamer 
> nowadays.
> 
> I have seen that dmo has:
> 
>   - dvd::rip, which is a frontend for transcode, which in turn is not 
> in Debian (I know we have once discussed this in the past, but what 
> were the reasons this is not in Debian?)
>   - handbrake, which seems to be exactly what I am looking for. Does 
> anyone know reasons not to include this in Debian?
>   - ogmrip, which also seems to come close to my expectations. Again, 
> are there reasons for not having this in Debian?
> 
> There are also some command line tools like xvidenc, h264enc or 
> lxdvdrip which might be easier to package but only provide limited 
> use. What di you think of the packages I mentioned above?
> 
> Did I miss one importand DVD ripper?

Maybe not important, but you missed dvdbackup. It's in the Debian
archive, but not under the hood of pkg-multimedia (yet).

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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