Re: ripping dvd

That is a big thank you to you for that advice!  Hadn't heard of 
checkinstall.  I'll "check" it out! :-)
Dow


Paul wrote:

> 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.
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