k3b and DVD Ripping

[RedFedora]

I have a few videos on DVD that I would like to rip for quick/easy viewing.
I've heard the k3b is a good tool for this and also the perl program dvd::rip. However,
I cannot get dvd::rip to compile....and well, I have k3b already installed.
So, k3b it is!

The problem is that when I run k3b, it does not show the Chapters/tracks
that I may rip. I think I have all the supporting plug-ins, does anyone have
any idea why the chapaters don't show up?

If it helps any, I've tried to do a raw rip to create a DVD image on my hard drive. When
I attempt this, I get an error message about the data being too large (5+ GB rather than 2).

Thanks.

[Psquared]

Originally Posted by RedFedora

I have a few videos on DVD that I would like to rip for quick/easy viewing.
I've heard the k3b is a good tool for this and also the perl program dvd::rip. However,
I cannot get dvd::rip to compile....and well, I have k3b already installed.
So, k3b it is!

The problem is that when I run k3b, it does not show the Chapters/tracks
that I may rip. I think I have all the supporting plug-ins, does anyone have
any idea why the chapaters don't show up?

If it helps any, I've tried to do a raw rip to create a DVD image on my hard drive. When
I attempt this, I get an error message about the data being too large (5+ GB rather than 2).

Thanks.

Are you using FC1 or FC2? There's a big update out tonight for k3b on FC2 that "might" fix this problem. I just downloaded it - but I have not tried it yet. Do a yum update and see if that helps.

[RedFedora]

I am using FC2. I will run "yum update" and see what happens.
I will will try another DVD and get back to you on whether it works.
Thanks for the reply.

[RedFedora]

Okay, I updated everything. However, I still have the same problem. When I put
a video DVD in the drive and open k3b, it shows my CD drive and my DVD drive. I
click on the DVD drive and it changes the right pane. There is shows
"Titles Time Language Chapter Angle"
but there are no records under these fields. Am I perhaps missing a required program
or plug-in?

[prospectofdeath]

I've had really good luck with dvd::rip. I've made several backup copies of dvd movies I own.

I followed the directions on the dvd::rip site and was able to install on FC1 & FC2 without problem.

[RedFedora]

I've been trying to install dvd::rip, however, I've run into
dependancy hell. Using yum results in about a half dozen requirements
that cannot be found. Doing this manually, so far, has resulted in the
same.

This is the result of using yum.

.......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package vcdimager needs libcdio.so.0, this is not available.
Package vcdimager needs libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0), this is not available.
Package vcdimager needs libiso9660.so.0, this is not available.
Package vcdimager needs libiso9660.so.0(ISO9660_0), this is not available.
Package transcode needs liblzo.so.1, this is not available.
Package transcode needs libtheora.so.0, this is not available.

And here is my yum.conf file:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
gpgcheck=0

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/

#[development]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/

[prospectofdeath]

Originally Posted by RedFedora

I've been trying to install dvd::rip, however, I've run into
dependancy hell. Using yum results in about a half dozen requirements
that cannot be found. Doing this manually, so far, has resulted in the
same.

This is the result of using yum.

First off I've had mixed luck with yum, I prefer to install the individual files.

Check out the installer page and you'll see all the things you have to have installed. Some of those things install better, IMHO, from a simple 'rpm -i <filename>' command.

[viper8]

If you want dvd::rip , try getting it from www.freshrpms.net - nice apt/yum repository that should fix all those dependency problems.

Incidentally, it's listed as
perl-Video-DVDRip

Enjoy!

[RedFedora]

Thanks for all the suggestions.
I finally got dvd::rip installed and running. However, it gives me the
exact same problem as k3b does. That is, it loads the disc, but
doesn't show any tracks/chapters/titles. I get an error about dvdread.c not being
able to open /dev/dvd (which is my dvd drive).

In the hope that installing all of these packages might have helped k3b, I tried that
again. I found that when I brought up "Disc Info", it mentions the DVD's attributes
include "no interrupt and no copy". Does this "no copy" mean that I will be unable
to copy the disc to my drive? If so, why can I view/read the disc, but not copy the
contents?

Thanks again for all your help.

[viper8]

Do you have libdvdcss and libdvdread installed?

Both are available from www.freshrpms.net and will be automagically installed if/when you install dvd::rip from their yum/apt repo

[RedFedora]

Yes, I have libdvdread and libdvdcss installed. I had to install them to play my
DVDs through mplayer.
I've heard that there is a way to pipe audio/video output from mplayer into
a file. Perhaps someone could post the command line for that?

Thank you all.

[Hurkyl]

I'm having the same problem, no titles showing when selecting the DVD icon.
After spending last nigh searching for an answer this is the best info I've got so far:

Following up on my previous post, the issue I encountered was resolved. And I understood the first poster's error report:

(dvd_reader.c) no support for DVD reading configured - exit.

After parsing the source I discovered that transcode's tcprobe in method K3bTcWrapper::runTcprobe() with -i was failing. I ran tcprobe on CLI and saw that same message. I found out that libdvdread's development files were not installed when I compiled it. That's because the transcode site recommends a way for easy RPM building but there's no way to check out if all the features are supported Recompiling everything and checking every dependencies did the trick.

It's from the K3B site www.k3b.org -> support -> video encoding -> view responses (at bottom) -> DVD ripping problem (by Wiskhey Tango)
(sorry no direct link)

I've posted this:

Hi, I'm having the same problem.

When I first installed transcode through yum I was able to get the titles info but I had the slow/hang problem when trying to right-click and copy them.
After reading a bit I found out it was because I had transcode 0.6.12 installed so I removed it. Then I downloaded the 0.6.11 source from the transcode site and built the rpm like they suggest but now I can't get the titles info.

Here are the version of the installed packages

K3B 0.11.17
libdvdread 0.9.4
libdvdcss 1.2.8
transcode 0.6.11
kernel 2.6.8-1.521

And this is what I get when I do
# tcprobe -i /dev/cdrom
(dvd_reader.c) no support for DVD reading configured - exit.
(iodump.c) unable to open directory "/dev/cdrom"

Can you give more details on how you fixed the problem?
What do I need to do to recompile transcode with the libdvdread dev files support?

Thanks

And I'm waiting for an answer.

If anybody has info on how to fix this, please tell us

[Hurkyl]

After searching around some more, I found this piece of info

So here's what I did:

- removed the transcode package
- downloaded and installed the libdvdread-devel package
- rebuilt the transcode package with 'rpmbuild -ta transcode-0.6.11.tar.gz'
- installed the new transcode package

Voila! It's working now

[RedFedora]

Okay, I uninstalled transcode, dvd::rip and the subtitle library. I then installed libdvdread-devel.
I downloaded the transcode source, ran rpmbuild -ta <transcode_source_file>
I ran rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMs/i386/transcode-version.rpm
I re-installed the subtitles library and dvd::rip.
I still get the same error "(dvd_reader.c) no support for DVD reading configured - exit."

[jale2ice]

I noticed you guys talking about /dev/cdrom throughout... I have not used this program yet, but I have used DVDRip. Did you guys check to see if /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd (those are the directories for my CDRW & DVD Drive) worked instead of /dev/cdrom?