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    Lightbulb Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    It seems that there is a wiki for running DVD Shrink in Wine, but no wiki for the excellent Linux native replacement for DVD Shrink, K9Copy, so I decided to create one.

    The new wiki page can be found here. I will also make this the official discussion thread.

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    Hi thanks for the wiki.
    I have a problem, I tried to make a copy of a dvd but the output file is 5,1GB, (I thought K9Copy automatically reduced the size to fit 4,7GB?)
    I don't find any settings to correct this.
    Any help appreciated!

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    problem resolved, found the answer in another thread.

    Apparently you have to first save the DVD as an iso to disk, then burn it afterwards, that way it stays 4,7GB.

    If you burn directly, size is bigger (no clue why though )

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    I've had 50/50 success rate using K9Copy. It seems to do fine on older dvd's, but I have had Zero success on anything new. For that, I would have to use DVDFab Decrypter for Windows. Even DVDShrink, and DVD Decrypter are choking on anything new.

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    Quote Originally Posted by darknuala
    I've had 50/50 success rate using K9Copy. It seems to do fine on older dvd's, but I have had Zero success on anything new. For that, I would have to use DVDFab Decrypter for Windows. Even DVDShrink, and DVD Decrypter are choking on anything new.

    I have found this, too, re: DVDShrink and Decrypter. So, and this is on a Windows machine obviously, .... I use AnyDVD and Nero to just copy the DVD. It is remarkably fast and simple.

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    Quote Originally Posted by darknuala View Post
    I've had 50/50 success rate using K9Copy. It seems to do fine on older dvd's, but I have had Zero success on anything new. For that, I would have to use DVDFab Decrypter for Windows. Even DVDShrink, and DVD Decrypter are choking on anything new.
    This is because of some of the new forms of copy protection on DVDs, such as ARccOS and RipGuard. Many Windows users have also run into this problem, and have turned to AnyDVD as their solution, as it is frequently updated. However, the excellent method by which AnyDVD operates unfortunately makes it more difficult to emulate than DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter. In fact, AnyDVD is not even listed in the Wine Application Database. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    I just wanted to add, you might want to try the current version of k9copy (1.0.4). I had problems backing-up several dvds with the 1.0.2-ubuntu dapper version in the repositories (such as not being able to copy with menus, freezing mid stream on certain dvds, not being able to shrink to the right size). However with version 1.0.4 installed from source so far (only about 10 dvds) I have had no problem backing up dvds using version 1.0.4, even ones that had errors with k9copy 1.0.2-ubuntu (and i am copying 8.5 Gb dvds to single 4.7 Gb w/o noticable compression loss of quality).

    The only problem is right now you have to install it from source, and have to install several dev packages to do so properly. I posted a previous post
    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...1&postcount=12
    explaining how i got installing the source to work in dapper 6.06.

    Cheers.

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    I just added a section to the wiki on installation from source. I found a changelog online at http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23885 that lists some of the improvements of version 1.0.4-2 over 1.0.2 (dapper version) and 1.0.3 (breezy repos.knit.it version) including:
    v1.0.4-2
    - fixed freezes problems with FC5

    v1.0.4
    - improved compatibility
    - take benefit of MMX, SSE, SSE2 for memcpy
    - fixed reading of empty titles
    - input device combo is editable
    - Integration of vamps and requant in k9copy as QThread classes
    - fixed size problems
    - added video in backup progress dialog
    - fixed several issues in multi-angle DVD copy
    - Improved the backup speed

    v1.0.3b
    - fixed compil issue on Suse,FC4....

    v 1.0.3 bis
    - fixed compil issue with libdvdread 0.9.5

    v 1.0.3
    - compression of menus
    - improved compatibility
    - selection by titleset
    - fixed ifo update bugs
    - added possibility to enter the size of dvd
    -...

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    When I compile from source I run into these problems. Installing the dependencies first i get most of them except the following pasted below:

    navyn@navyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdebase-dev
    Password:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.

    Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
    the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
    that package should be filed.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    kdebase-dev: Depends: kdelibs4-dev (>= 4:3.5-rc1) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Broken packages
    navyn@navyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdelibs4-dev
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.

    Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
    the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
    that package should be filed.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    kdelibs4-dev: Depends: libavahi-client-dev but it is not going to be installed
    E: Broken packages
    navyn@navyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install libavahi-client-dev
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.

    Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
    the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
    that package should be filed.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libavahi-client-dev: Depends: libdbus-1-dev (>= 0.60) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Broken packages
    navyn@navyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install lidbus-1-dev
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    E: Couldn't find package lidbus-1-dev
    navyn@navyn-desktop:~$

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    Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

    Although it could be a typo I have to ask: Did you try lidbus-1-dev or libdbu-1-dev?
    In the log you pasted you are trying to install the wrong/misspelled package.

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