Looking for a program

[Brian Kelsay]

I fooled around with MoviX a little.  It is a small bootable Linux that can be burned with or 
without GUI Mplayer.  I think I had it play Divx.  I took "O' Brother Where Art Thou" to a LUG 
meeting one night.  I also used a USB DVD player to start up a DVD copy of "Fellowship of the 
Ring".   Now that is not exactly ripping, but it means you don't have to convert it.  While in this 
environment you can also mount your HDD containing data (divx or other format files that mplayer 
plays.)   You can also put the Divx movie and Movix on the same disk to make a bootable movie.

I don't think you actually need a HDD installed OS to do your DVD RIP.  You could look to see if 
Knoppix includes the software you need, make sure you use the boot option to make a swap file on 
HDD and run your rip.  That at least sounds plausible to me.   You will need at least 10GB free 
space for the rip to be saved to disk and a processor over 600 or 800 for it to finish in any 
reasonable amount of time.   Linux Journal did an article on this in the Dec 2003 issue that I just 
read yesterday.  That is where I got my hardware recommendations.

Some of the Knoppix based distros are supposed to support using apt-get while still running from 
CD.   I did this under Morphix.   You could boot, apt-get install your dvd ripper and do your 
business.

Good Luck

Brian Kelsay

>>> Jason Clinton <> 02/23/04 12:32PM >>>

Jim Royer wrote:

| Is there any linux program that will convert DVD to DVIX and if so is
| there a bootable form of it?
| Jim Royer
| "No, I didn't sell my soul to Satan,
| but we did work out a rent to own deal."

"DVD::Rip" and no. Where are you going to store your massive rip and
encode files? In memory? You certainly can't store them on a bootable CD.

You'll need a full blown Linux installation, the win32codec package
(which is technically illegal), and transcode, AFAIK.