…and other multimedia codex.

Playback

Ubunty’s come a long way since 2005. Now just about everything you need is at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats. I especially like the Medibuntu repositories.

As such most of the below is no longer needed.

Helpful links:

• VLC
  • http://www.videolan.org/
  • http://nanocrew.net/2005/09/01/compiling-vlc/
• Xine
  • http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/linuxdvd.htm
  • http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc videolan-doc

##########
# from: http://soundlinuxtraining.com/portal/mod/book/view.php?id=2340&chapterid=26
#$ sudo apt-get update
#$ sudo apt-get install totem-xine gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-mad
#$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg libmad0 msttcorefonts libdvdread3
#This adds the totem player, gstreamer, Micro$oft fonts and the ability to watch DVDs.
#Now run the dvdread install script and the gstreamer register program.
#$ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
#$ gst-register-0.8
This is great and all, but still gives me:
The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you trying to play
an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-lame
gst-register-0.8
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
did the trick.. but it's choppy..
##########

# multimedia codecs
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-lame
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install w32codecs
sudo apt-get install libdivx4linux
sudo apt-get install lame
sudo apt-get install sox
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install mjpegtools
sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools
gst-register-0.8

sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs

# dvd library; see http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

# mplayer
sudo apt-get install mplayer-386 mplayer-doc
sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
# maybe (done):
 sudo cp /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf_backup
 # replace vo=x11, with vo=xv,
 sudo vi /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

Ripping

AcidRip

The default setup rips a ~550M single .avi without subtitles.

drip

Couldn’t find my libdvdcss; all well.

dvdrip

The default setup rips ~7G per dvd as .vob files. It’s easy to select which subtitle and audio tracks are ripped. Records everything on the DVD (extra features, etc), but not the menu.