[mythtv-users] DVD Rip ISO

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:16 PM, William wrote:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> Using the DVD Rip option for "perfect" setting works perfectly =)  
> When I use
> DVD rip with the ISO setting, after  the rip is complete my DVD  
> drive will
> no longer open... it acts like the program is not letting go of the
> resource. My lame solution to this is to reset the box (im sure  
> there is a
> better way to kill this). In addition to this problem, I have had  
> no success
> in taking that ISO image and burning it to DVD with KB3. The burned  
> DVD does
> not work in Myth DVD player (xine or mplayer) or a stand alone DVD  
> player.
> Thoughts?
> ---------------------------
>
> I suspect your problem is that even the perfect rip setting only  
> rips the
> main track and does not rip any menus or file structures. This  
> behavior may
> have changed since I tried it last year. Now I rip my dvds with a  
> windows
> program that rips everything (dvdshrink) and shrinks stuff to fit a  
> dvd5
> disk.
>

That doesn't explain the "locked disk" problem.

DVDShrink is one of those Windows programs that actually runs pretty  
well under Wine. In fact, the MythDora distro actually comes with  
Wine and DVDshrink installed and integrated into the MythTV F/E  
menus, although no guarantee that it is going to work on any  
particular system.