How to rip a DVD?

[Thomas Cameron]

On 04/01/2016 09:35 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> On 16/04/01 09:23, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> On 03/31/2016 11:23 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>>> On 16/03/31 22:02, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a way of doing this on Fedora? My Google-fu must
>>>> not be
>>>> good, as I've found references to this being copy protected, but am
>>>> only
>>>> finding links to closed source Windows software to make copies.
>>>
>>> http://negativo17.org/handbrake/
>>
>>
>> Handbrake errors out. Sorry, thought I'd mentioned that is my usual
>> go-to.
> 
> You need to use MakeMKV from that link and then you use Handbrake for
> converting from I guess mpeg2/MKV to m4v. MakeMKV ripped until now
> everything for me incl. those Disney-DVDs which made problems with
> pretty much anything else.

I did not know about this! Thank you! It seems to be backing up the dvd
now, then I'll use ghb to rip it to mp4. Thank you very much!