Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

54698 readers

429 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others

Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

💰 Please help cover server costs.


Ko-fi	Liberapay

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

How to rip copy-protected DVDs on Linux in 2024 (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I feel this is kind of a dumb question but I can't find a solution that's working for me:

every now and then I have the need to rip copy protected dvds. In the past I have used Handbrake with libdvdcss. But now there only seems to be flatpak versions of Handbrake for linux and these versions can't access the libdvdcss library.

VLC should be able to do the job but for a specific dvd I wnt to rip now, I produces out-of-sync video/audio tracks and I haven't been able to succeed.

I can't believe ripping dvd's can be that hard. Do I miss something obvious? Any tips are appreciated, aside from just download it - I can't find the respective media anywhere...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it not in your distro's repo? I am pretty sure I've used handbrake from Arch repo just fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Building MakeMKV seems to require a binary, which is unfree. I assume this is the reason it's not in official distribution repos (except Nix and FreeBSD).

It's in the AUR and Nixpkgs, both automate building it from "source" (+binary). MakeMKV is in FreeBSDs official repos, according to pkgs.org.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was referring to Hanbrake which is mentioned in the post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Well, it seems my reading skill deteriorated to a surprising extent. You've even mentioned handbrake in your post...