Re: ripping dvd

Dow Hurst wrote:
> The app of choice from what I've read is Mplayer, DVD-Rip, and transcode 
> using Xvid.  The tricky part is getting all that to compile since lot's 
> of libraries and supporting software is required.  I wish someone would 
> package the whole thing in rpms for SuSE 8.1 and let us know where to 
> get it.  Including in the package the decryption library for commercial 
> DVDs as well.  As a Christian, I am not going to go and rip stuff that I 
> haven't paid for, so no worries there.  It is just such a pain to build 
> all that software into a seamless package that will insert in SuSE 8.1 
> nicely.  I sure wish they had done that with the MPlayer package they 
> included in 8.1.  I'd like to have fun with the possibilities in the 
> software and not lose a whole weekend trying to figure out the difficult 
> build.  Too many bleeding edge CVS libs and layered stuff that isn't 
> compatible with the older libraries currently in the 8.1 distro is the 
> problem.  I'd love a simple straightforward tutorial in building the 
> complete package to be compatible with SuSE.

Maybe this is a start?

http://packman.links2linux.de/

Even though it's in German, it's pretty self-explanatory.

Also, install "checkinstall" and instead of doing "make install" use 
"checkinstall" so that an entry is made to the rpm database -- that way 
YaST shouldn't complain and mess up any non-suse stuff you install.