[mythtv-users] Many new dvd's not working

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Nov 18 16:47:45 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:52:36AM -0500, Doug Lytle wrote:
> Dom H wrote:
> >Apologises for bringing this discussion back from the dead but I have
> >a few questions that some might be able to answer.
> >
> >Basically I have tried every native linux application to rip
> >discs/titles to my media centre and none have been 100% reliable.
> 
> I've had great results using makemkv.

    I have encountered very few DVDs that didn't work with the dumpstream
option in mplayer. A few that failed that, were readable after applying
ddrescue.

    There's a lot of disks that are just plain bad out there. There are
also others that are "intentionally broken" as a form of copy protection.
VLC works well on those since it seems to try and access the disk the same
way a console player would.

    Anything that's Disney/Pixar and is not 30+ year old 2nd tier stuff is
bound to have the very latest in "intentionally broken" types of DVD copy
protection.

> 
> http://www.makemkv.com/ (Linux version link located in the Forum)
> 
> There has only been 1 DVD that I had to resort to a family members
> Windows machine.
> 
> But, as the name implies, it moves them to over to .mkv format.

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