Loye, I appreciate the feedback, unfortunately I've found that DVDShrink has always been the easiest and quickest for my purposes. I am well versed with all of the various dvd tools available from dvd::rip to K3b, etc. Currently, I am using dvdbackup and mkisofs...but its pretty clunky by comparison.
For serial disks (TV shows etc) I prefer to rip the whole disk and simply remove the PUOs and region coding...then burn them to DVD9 without recompression. Movie titles I prefer to cut out everything except the main title, DTS (or AC3) in the native language and the subtitles. I can then store the originals where dirty hands can't touch or scratch them. I haven't done too much diagnosis at this point. I know that Picasa runs great, but it works on a specialized / localized install of wine. I have been previously wine on this system with DVDShrink since Breezy without incident, oftentimes encoding up to 10 movies at a time...its only since moving to Feisty I've encountered any issues. If it would help I can hunt down another app to test wine with...but frankly this is the *only* windoze app I have any need for. Cheers. On 7/28/07, Loye Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erich, > > What happens when you run a program that the Wine application database > shows as fully supported? > > Hardware-centric applications are usually handled better with software > written natively for Linux. This link > (http://mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/dvdshrink/) gives instructions on how to > get DVD Shrink running, and many people have had good luck with using > it. However, the open-source teams working on the > Linux/Gnu/Debian/Ubuntu stack use open-source applications to test > drivers and other programs that interact with hardware. Consequently, > one should expect applications like DVD Shrink to have less stability > than their open-source counterparts. > > There are more faster, more stable Linux alternatives for DVD backups. > In each case, you will need to install libdvdcss2, available from the > Medibuntu repository. (See http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/). "K3b" is > IMHO the best. It depends on KDE libraries, so if you are resource > constrained and are running the GNOME desktop (or if you just prefer > GTK/GNOME applications), you may want to install thoggen or totem- > gstreamer (along with the necessary gstreamer plugins for using DVDs). > > Happy Trails, > > Loye Young > http://www.iycc.biz > Laredo, Texas > > -- > wine consistently crashes since updating to feisty > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109165 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- "A man is defined by the questions that he asks; and the way he goes about finding the answers to those questions is the way he goes through life." -- wine consistently crashes since updating to feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109165 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
