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wbm
October 14th, 2009, 05:49 PM
Hello, does any one here know what would be the equivalent to Mac The Ripper and Toast on Linux please?

E.g. On the Mac I stick a DVD in the drive, launch MacTheRipper and click "OK". That gives me a ~7gb folder with Video.TS and Audio.TS files.
Then I launch Toast, create Video .ISO from Video.TS, and it asks me will if I write to a single or dual layer DVD. I choose single layer and it first compresses the files and then saves it as a 4.7 gb disk image, which I can then burn to DVD.
In that setup I don't really need to know much and it just works to backup a "large" DVD to a DVD-R.
Thanks

hal10000
October 14th, 2009, 08:05 PM
k3b is your friend, but be sure you have the medibuntu repos activated because it might install some plugins and helper tool that you would not get without the medibuntu repository.

oswaldkelso
October 15th, 2009, 07:53 AM
k9copy is the most versatile gui DVD ripper. I used to keep OSX around just to use mac the ripper. Now I just rip, shrink with k9copy. It makes mac the ripper seem like a poor relation. If needed, burn with the burner of your choice, k3b xfburn, brasero etc. Or just rip to iso and store until you want to burn, or encode to a mpeg4 variant with undvd, ripit, h264enc, handbrake, whatever, all much easier under gnu/linux than mac OSX once you've got your head around the different ways of doing things and installed any required libs.

wbm
October 16th, 2009, 02:28 PM
I tried K9copy and it seems to work like a charm.
Thanks