http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/index.cipp

I.
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/index.cipp
provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all
aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely
known video processing swissknife transcode and many other Open Source
tools. dvd::rip itself is licensed under GPL / Perl Artistic License.

"And note: it's spelt dvd::rip, and nothing else."

II. NOTE

This README is automatically generated from the same sources which
are used for the dvd::rip homepage. You'll allways get the latest
news and information from the homepage.

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

Also the homepage contains an extensive user documentation for
standard and cluster mode, with screenshots, diagrams and more.
This README covers only the installation not the usage of dvd::rip.

III.
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/install.cipp
__________________________________________________________________

* 1.1 Binary distributions

* 1.1.1 Debian packages
* 1.1.2 SuSE packages
* 1.1.3 Mandrake packages
* 1.1.4 RedHat packages
* 1.1.5 gentoo packages
* 1.1.6 FreeBSD port
* 1.1.7 OpenBSD port

1.2 Source download
* 1.2.1 dvd::rip tarball download
* 1.2.2 CVS access

1.3 Requirements
* 1.3.1 External command line tools
* 1.3.2 Perl 5.6.0 or better
* 1.3.3 Perl modules
* 1.3.4 rar (for vobsub compression)

1.4 Install from source
* 1.4.1 Install dvd::rip
* 1.4.2 Update dvd::rip
* 1.4.3 Multiple dvd::rip versions in parallel

1.5 Uninstall dvd::rip

1.6 Download this documentation
__________________________________________________________________

This chapter describes how you can get and install dvd::rip. You can
try one of the several binary distributions or install it from the
source.

1.1 Binary distributions

Installation of dvd::rip isn't that hard, but fulfilling the
requirements actually is (simply because there are a lot ;). So you
should first try a binary installation using the package manager of
your Linux distribution. This should track all dependencies
automatically and speed up things significantly.

1.1.1 Debian packages

Christian Marillat builds video related Debian packages and publishes
them on his website http://www.debian-multimedia.org. You can use
apt-get to install the packages if you add one of the following entries
(depending on your distribution) to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org experimental main

You will find all packages to compile transcode on your own (if you
need always the very latest versions), or can get binaries of
reasonably recent transcode versions directly. The same applies to
dvd::rip.

The dvd::rip package is called dvdrip.

1.1.2 SuSE packages

On packman.links2linux.org you find several video related RPM's,
including dvd::rip and transcode:

dvd::rip at packman.links2linux.org
http://packman.links2linux.org/ homepage

1.1.3 Mandrake packages

Mandrake users can get actual dvd::rip and transcode RPM's from the
Penguin Liberation Front lair.

http://plf.zarb.org/

1.1.4 RedHat packages

Matthias Saou does a great job in building dvd::rip and other
multimedia related packages. You can find them at freshrpms.net. This
is a direct link the dvd::rip package:

http://freshrpms.net/rpm/perl-Video-DVDRip

1.1.5 gentoo packages

You can get dvd::rip and transcode from the official gentoo package
repository:

http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=dvdrip

1.1.6 FreeBSD port

dvd::rip is available in the FreeBSD ports collection. To install from
source, cd to ${PORTSDIR}/multimedia/dvdrip and type 'make install
clean'. To install a binary package of the port, type 'pkg_add -r
dvdrip'. Note however that the default installation of the transcode
port which dvd::rip depends on is very minimalistic, it is recommended
to look at the Makefile of the transcode port, enable all the options
you need for dvd::rip and install the transcode port from source.
Thanks to Michael Nottebrock, who maintains the FreeBSD port.

1.1.7 OpenBSD port

Since June 2004 we have also an official OpenBSD port of dvd::rip. You
find it under graphics/dvdrip. Thanks to the maintainer Waldemar
Brodkorb.

1.2 Source download

1.2.1 dvd::rip tarball download

You can download dvd::rip sources from this server or all stable
releases from any CPAN mirror.

Local download of the latest stable release: (currently no unstable
release available)

dvdrip-0.98.10.tar.gz
dvdrip-0.98.10.tar.gz.asc (GnuPG signature, get key)

CPAN download directory: (list of mirrors)

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/J/JR/JRED/

You can download older versions from here:

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/dist/
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/dist/pre/

This is a directory, which contains several user contributed files, you
probably find useful:

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/contrib/

1.2.2 CVS access

This is mainly intended for developers and CVS experienced users. This
CVS repository is only a read only mirror of my main repository. It's
updated manually when I publish releases or pre-releases, so there is
no advantage for normal users compared to downloading the tar balls
(besides making it easier using "cvs update" ;)

Since development of dvd::rip is divided into two branches, you get the
current (unstable) version, if you don't specifiy a release tag. If you
want to access a stable version, add -r rel-MAJOR-MINOR-PATCH to your
cvs checkout command (example: for 0.48.5 this is -r rel-0-48-5). If
you always want to have the latest stable patch release, use -r
rel-MAJOR-MINOR-patches (e.g. -r rel-0-50-patches). All subsequent
updates will stay on this branch (here: 0.50). The easiest way of
switching to another branch is creating a new checkout using the
corresponding release tag.

Root Module Unstable tag Stable tag
:pserver:[email protected]:/cvs dvdrip none rel-MAJOR-MINOR-PATCH

1.2.2.1 CVS examples

Log into CVS server with:

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs login

(Press ENTER for password)

Checkout latest version of the actual stable branch (here 0.50.x):

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs checkout -r rel-0-50-patches dvdrip

Checkout a specific stable/bugfix version (here 0.50.13) with:

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs checkout -r rel-0-50-13 dvdrip

Checkout the current development version with:

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs checkout dvdrip

Update a checkout - created using one of the commands above - with:

cd dvdrip; cvs -z3 update

1.3 Requirements

dvd::rip is a Gtk+ based program written in Perl, using the video
processing tool transcode and many other tools for the internals. So
you first have to get some prerequisites before installing dvd::rip.

dvd::rip expects all command line tools mentioned here to be found in
the standard search PATH.

1.3.1 External command line tools

This table gives a brief overview of the tools used by dvd::rip
(everything but the Perl modules - see the chapters below for more
information about them). Most tools are optional - the corresponding
dvd::rip modules are just switched off, if you don't have them.

But you need at least the tools marked mandatory, otherwise dvd::rip
will complain with an error message on startup. You can get also a
dvd::rip window listing this information, refer to the corresponding
chapter in the documentation for details.

Tool Comment Mandatory Suggested Minimum Maximum
transcode dvd::rip is nothing without transcode Yes 1.0.2 0.6.14 -
ImageMagick Needed for preview image processing Yes 6.2.3 4.0.0 -
ffmpeg FFmpeg video converter command line program No 0.4.10 -
xvid4conf xvid4 configuration tool No 1.12 1.6 -
subtitle2pgm Needed for subtitles No 0.3 0.3 -
lsdvd Needed for faster DVD TOC reading No 0.15 0.15 -
rar Needed for compressed vobsub subtitles No 2.71 2.71 2.99
mplayer Needed for subtitle vobsub viewing No 1.00 0.90 -
ogmtools Needed for OGG/Vorbis No 1.5 1.0.0 -
dvdxchap For chapter progress bar (ogmtools) No 1.5 1.0.0 -
mjpegtools Needed for (S)VCD encoding No 1.6.2 1.6.0 -
xine Can be used to view DVD's/files No 0.9.15 0.9.13 -
fping Only for cluster mode master No 2.4 2.2 -
hal Used for DVD device scanning No 0.5.7 0.5 -

1.3.2 Perl 5.6.0 or better

You need a recent Perl version on your system. Perl 5.8.x is
recommended, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 should work also. dvd::rip won't start
with Perl versions prior to 5.6.0. Actual distributions ship minimum
5.6.1, so this shouldn't be a real problem, anyway.

1.3.3 Perl modules

Since dvd::rip is mostly written in Perl it requires a bunch of Perl
modules. Check if your distribution has installation packages for them,
otherwise download them from CPAN and install from source.

Some required Perl modules are shipped with dvd::rip for your
convenience. These are pure Perl modules which need no C-Compiler or
something like that for installation. dvd::rip detects if these modules
are missing on your system and installs them together with its own
program files. Refer to the Install from source chapter for details
about this mechanism.

This table lists all Perl modules, usual names for installation
packages and CPAN URL's for download:

Perl Module Package name CPAN URL Shipped with dvd::rip
Gtk2 libgtk2-perl search.cpan.org No
Event libevent-perl search.cpan.org No
Locale::TextDomain libintl-perl-xs search.cpan.org No
Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory libgtk2-ex-formfactory-perl search.cpan.org Yes
AnyEvent libanyevent-perl search.cpan.org Yes
Event::ExecFlow libevent-execflow-perl search.cpan.org Yes
Event::RPC libevent-rpc-perl search.cpan.org Yes

To install a Perl module from source, execute these commands:

tar xfz Some-Perl-Module-x.xx.tar.gz
cd Some-Perl-Module-x.xx
perl Makefile.PL
make test
sudo make install

1.3.4 rar (for vobsub compression)

Some special notes about the rar program. MPlayer supports vobsub files
compressed with rar, but you need a 2.x version, 3.x and higher doesn't
work. You can get a 2.x version locally from here:

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/contrib/rarlnx271.sfx.bin

I suggest to install the binary to e.g. /usr/local/bin. Then configure
this path using the Preferences dialog.

1.4 Install from source

1.4.1 Install dvd::rip

This is quite easy, if you have managed to install the packages
mentioned above... ;)

Download the .tar.gz archive of the dvd::rip version you want to
install. Then extract the file, change into the created directory, and
execute the Makefile.PL script:

# as a normal user
tar xfz dvdrip-x.xx.tar.gz
cd dvdrip-x.xx
perl Makefile.PL

As mentioned in the Required Perl modules chapter above dvd::rip can
install some of the required Perl modules for you automatically. If
dvd::rip detects such missing modules on your system, you get an output
like this from perl Makefile.PL:

Note:
-----
The following modules are required for dvd::rip but not found on your
system. They're shipped with dvd::rip for your convenience and will be
installed automatically when you run 'make install':

AnyEvent Event::ExecFlow Event::RPC

You can ignore the 'prerequisite not found' warnings beyond for them.

If you don't like this and want to install these modules manually
just set SKIP_UNPACK_REQUIRED_MODULES before executing Makefile.PL,
e.g. this way:

SKIP_UNPACK_REQUIRED_MODULES=1 perl Makefile.PL

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite AnyEvent 1.02 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Event::ExecFlow 0.62 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Event::RPC 0.89 not found.
Writing Makefile for Video::DVDRip

If your distribution has installation packages for these modules, it's
recommended to use these. Install them and run 'perl Makefile.PL'
again.

Now run 'make test' and if no errors were reported 'make install' (as
root):

make test
sudo make install

You can ommit the "make install" step. But then you can execute the
'dvdrip' binary only from the build directory and you must put
"$PWD/bin" into your PATH (export PATH=$PWD:$PATH), otherwise dvd::rip
can't find its files.

1.4.2 Update dvd::rip

Updating is just like installing. The only thing you should be aware of
is switching the underlying Perl version. This way you easily can get
two versions of dvd::rip installed in your system, because dvd::rip
installs its libraries in your Perl library directory. Such a
installation mixing isn't recommended unless you know exactly what
you're doing. So it's better to remove the old version from the old
Perl directory if you change the Perl version (refer to the uninstall
chapter for details).
Read the Changes file!

I strongly suggest you should read at least the latest change log entry
of the Changes file, resp. all entries of the versions you probably
skipped in case of an update. It contains important release notes, e.g.
about compatibility issues, and all relevant changes from release to
release.

Note:
Changes on the unstable branch are logged in the file Changes.unstable.

1.4.3 Multiple dvd::rip versions in parallel

It's possible to use several dvd::rip versions in parallel on your
system, but you can install only one version using make install into
your system directories.

Just extract another dvd::rip version you want to use somewhere, enter
the created directory (dvdrip-x.xx) and execute perl Makefile.PL &&
make here (no make install). Add the actual directory to your PATH
(export PATH=$PWD:$PATH) and you can start this version with bin/dvdrip
from this directory. All files and libraries located in the actual
distribution directory will be used. The . in PATH is neccessary,
otherwise some dvd::rip helper binaries may be taken from another
place.

tar xvfz dvdrip-x.xx.tar.gz
cd dvdrip-x.xx
perl Makefile.PL && make
export PATH=$PWD:$PATH
bin/dvdrip

1.5 Uninstall dvd::rip

If you didn't use a package manager to install dvd::rip and you want to
uninstall it, follow these instructions. This is necessary, if you
accidentally mixed several versions on your system, which may result in
a broken dvd::rip at all. In this case best thing is to remove all
instances and to do a clean installation afterwards.

dvd::rip mainly consists of a bunch of Perl modules which reside in the
Perl library directory of your Perl interpreter. Easiest way to find
this directory is to use the locate program. Then a few executables
belong to dvd::rip, which also can be found using locate. This is an
example session of how this works:

% locate DVDRip.pm
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0/Video/DVDRip.pm
% rm -r /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0/Video/DVDRip*
% locate dvdrip
/usr/bin/dvdrip
/usr/bin/dvdrip-exec
/usr/bin/dvdrip-master
..
% rm /usr/bin/dvdrip*

In words: find a Perl library directory called Video with DVDRip.pm in
it. Remove the DVDRip.pm file and the subdirectory called DVDRip. Then
find the location of the binaries and remove them - see the list above.
If you find multiple instances this way, remove them all.

1.6 Download this documentation

You can download a static HTML version of this documentation:

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/dist/dvdrip-doc-html-0.98.10.tar.bz2

A PDF version is also available (generated using the excellent tool
htmldoc):

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/dist/dvdrip-doc-0.98.10.pdf.bz2
__________________________________________________________________

IV.
[1]http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/list.cipp
dvd::rip users, you should subscribe to the dvdrip-users mailing list.
This list is low traffic and announces, patches etc. will be posted
here, too.

The language of the mailing list is english.

This is a closed mailing list: subscribe before posting

The list is closed to prevent members and administrators from getting
flooded by spam. So you have to subscribe before posting. Postings from
non subscribed addresses are discarded without notification!

Important: You must use the sender address, which is subscribed to the
mailing list, because the list manager has no idea of your alternative
mail addresses. Postings with unknown sender addresses are discarded
without notification!

Before posting any questions or bug reports: please first check the
[3]documentation, in particular the [4]FAQ.

* [5]Mailing list subscription
* [6]Searchable mailing list archive

The list is registered for reading at [7]gmane.org, a mailing list to
news gateway, which has a public searchable mailing list archive:
* [8]Mailing list archive at gmane.org

Please note, that you can't post to the gmane.comp.video.dvdrip.user
newsgroup. You must be a regular list member for posting.

Because dvd::rip is highly transcode related, I suggest subscribing to
the [9]transcode-user mailing list, too.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Don't post any illegal stuff here, e.g. requesting or offering movie
downloads or something like this! Members breaking this simple rule
will be removed immediately.

Please note: copying encrypted DVD's is illegal in many countries. Also
it's illegal to provide information about how this could be
accomplished. So don't send any questions regarding encrypted DVD's or
DVD cracking tools to the author of dvd::rip or to the dvd::rip mailing
list. Corresponding mails will be silently ignored, correspondent posts
will be removed from the mailing list archive without notification.

URL References

1. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/list.cipp
3. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/
4. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/faq.cipp
5. http://lists.exit1.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrip-users
6. http://www.exit1.org/archive/dvdrip-users/
7. http://www.gmane.org/
8. http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.video.dvdrip.user
9. http://lists.exit1.org/mailman/listinfo/transcode-users

V.
[1]http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/support.cipp
[3]documentation, in particular the [4]FAQ, subscribe to the
[5]dvdrip-users mailing list and ask your question there (but not
before you read all information on this page!).

Eric S. Raymond wrote an excellent article about [6]"How To Ask
Questions The Smart Way ". You probably want to take a look at it
before posting ;)

Reporting bugs and suggestions (*please* read this!)

If you want to send a bug report, patch or feature request, please make
sure, that you're using the most recent version of dvd::rip (at least
the latest stable release). Also first check the [7]documentation, in
particular the [8]FAQ, the [9]ChangeLog and the [10]mailing list
archive to see, if the bug is reported and probably fixed already in
the development release. For feature requests, please check if it's not
already noted on the [11]TODO list. We all know, reading documentation
is boring, but it saves time ;) Thanks.

It's really important that you add the following information to your
bug reports, otherwise you'll likely don't get any helpful answers
(probably no answer at all, because for most people it's boring to ask
for this again and again...):
* a description of how the bug can be reproduced.
* information about your Linux installation, in particular which
distribution/version you are using
* exact versions of all affected packages. That's always dvd::rip and
transcode, but often a bunch of other packages are important, e.g.
ogmtools (if it's about ogg/vorbis) or mjpegtools (if it's about
(S)VCD processing) and so on. You can get a list of most of these
version numbers by pressing Ctrl+D in the dvd::rip main window.
* information about usage of binary packages or self compiled
packages. In case of binary packages: from where did you get them.
* if dvd::rip crashes or it looks like an internal dvd::rip bug and
not like a bug of external command execution, add the output of
"perl -V".
* if a specific command executed by dvd::rip fails, grab the
corresponding command line from the log and execute it by hand. It
is important that you add the complete command line and the
complete command output to your report.

transcode related issues

If dvd::rip mainly works for you but you encounter problems ripping
specific DVDs, this is probably a transcode problem. Maybe you want to
report this directly to the transcode developers resp. to the
[12]transcode-users list. If you're not sure about this, report the
problem to the dvdrip-users list, and we'll see, what we can do for
you. But aware, that you may be pointed to the transcode-users list...
;)

Encrypted DVD's

Please note: copying encrypted DVD's is illegal in many countries. Also
it's illegal to provide information about how this could be
accomplished. So don't send any questions regarding encrypted DVD's or
DVD cracking to the author of dvd::rip or to the dvd::rip mailing list.
Corresponding mails will be silently ignored, correspondent posts will
be removed from the mailing list archive without notification.

Contribute with patches

Patches are welcome, preferably unified context diffs created this way
(if you're familiar with CVS, you should use the [13]CVS repository and
create patches with CVS):
cd Video-DVDRip-0.48.2.patched
make realclean
cd ..
diff -urN Video-DVDRip-0.48.2 Video-DVDRip-0.48.2.patched > patchfile.txt

where Video-DVDRip-0.48.2 is the root directory of the original
distribution and Video-DVDRip-0.48.2.patched your modified version.
Without the make realclean all files created during make are added to
the patch, what's not what we want.

If it simply works

If dvd::rip works for you without any problems and you like it, don't
hesitate to drop a mail. Next to all those problem and bug reports some
positive postings delight every coders heart ;)

Contact the author

If you don't want to post to the mailing list for some reasons, you can
contact me by mail. But be aware, that the response time may be longer,
comparing to a list posting. The address is:
[14]Joern Reder <joern AT zyn.de>. Please place the word "dvd::rip"
somewhere in the subject, in addition to your real topic, because this
helps me classifying your email correctly. Thanks.

GnuPG Key

You can send PGP encrytped mails to the author. Please use the
following key:

Key ID 285CF473
Fingerprint 0B9C 37B5 070B 8D87 8851 A703 DA13 62D0 285C F473
Get it [15]Fetch from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net

From 0.50.14 on all dvd::rip releases are signed with this key.

URL References

1. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/support.cipp
3. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/
4. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/faq.cipp
5. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/list.cipp
6. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
7. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/
8. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/faq.cipp
9. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/changes.cipp
10. http://www.exit1.org/archive/dvdrip-users/
11. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/todo.cipp
12. http://lists.exit1.org/mailman/listinfo/transcode-users
13. http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/install.cipp#cvs
14. mailto:?subject=dvd::rip
15. http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x285CF473

VI. CHANGES
$Id: Changes 2398 2010-03-06 13:06:46Z joern $

Revision history and release notes for dvd::rip.

0.98.11 [stable branch] Sat Mar 6 2010, joern
Notes:
- Event::ExecFlow version 0.64 is required for this version.
This fixes a bug where no error messages were shown after
ripping short. It was reported via Ubunutu Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvdrip/+bug/478710
(You find it in the perl-modules/ directory, which was updated
to the most recent versions btw)

Features:
- Updated Danish and Catalan translation. Thanks to Ysangkok,
Kenneth Nielson and Joan Farrerons.
- Turn "ripping short" error message into a warning, so the
ripping process continues and it's up to the user to decide
whether this is critical or not.

Bugfixes:
- Fixed h264 2pass cluster mode bug, generating a malformed
transcode command. Reported by semkath <semkath AT arcor.de>
and Christiaan Putter <ceputter AT googlemail.com>.