Ripping DVDs

[pdavis68]

I've used mencoder successfully to re-encode several AVI files to make them compatible with a piece of hardware I have.

I now want to try ripping some of my DVDs but I'm not having much luck.

Attempts to mount the DVD are failing with a "No medium found" error, even though the DVD is in the drive.

For this same reason, I can't rip directly from the DVD. So, what I did is used DVDDecrypt on the PC to extract the VOBs.

My problem is, I can't seem to get mencoder to work with the multiple VOB files. For example, for doing the sound, I've tried the following:

cat *VOB | mencoder -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128

This results in a "No file given" error message.

If I try:

 mencoder *VOB -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128

I get a "No audio encoder (-oac) selected. Select one (see -oac help) or use -nosound"

What am I doing wrong? Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

[WalGrom]

hmm..
Did you ever read any DVDs from your system??
Perhaps your libdvdcss and libdvdcss2 is to old or not installed.
So your system cant handle encrypted DVDs.
Otherwise: did you try the "transcode" command line frontend?

regards,
Stephan