Maybe the wrong place to ask, so sorry to the mods if thats the case.

I’ve a load of movies on DVD and wonder if its worth converting to mp4 and building a personal media centre to save loading each and every disc. I’ve tried to convert a movie I like to mp4 today using VLC but that crashes. I then downloaded winxdvd ripper - that worked better but cut the movie off after 10 minutes (I fail to see why I should have to pay 40 quid to get more than 10 mins of video).

I also tried an old Ubuntu install on another laptop and Handbrake and VLC there but got no video at all.

Is there any app/program that is open source/actually free where I can just drop in my DVD and create an easy mp4 file to be viewed via my media player/TV?

Thanks in advance

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    On Linux, you need the libdvdcss library in order to rip protected DVD’s with vlc.
    For legal reasons, it can’t be included by the distros directly but there’s usually a documented way to install it.

    On Ubuntu, this is:

    sudo apt install libdvd-pkg  
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
    • ToeNailClippings@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      sudo apt install libdvd-pkg
      sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

      Oh right, cheers.

      Just tried that and managed to get an ISO image. So far so good, cheers!!