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post #31 of 38
5/29/11 at 3:59am
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Originally Posted by joeydrunk View Post

Dvdfab is not good to use for ripping to mkvs. It's a very cool easy program but has an audio bug when ripping to MKV, makemkv is a better solution, imo.

Understood re: ripping a BD direct to .mkv.

But MichaelZ appears to be ripping the complete BD structure, then creating the .mkv's separately with other mkv apps.

If so, then DVDFab should do the job just as well for the complete BD disc rip part, so no Windows license or VM required.
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post #32 of 38
5/29/11 at 2:51pm
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Originally Posted by Rgb View Post

But MichaelZ appears to be ripping the complete BD structure, then creating the .mkv's separately with other mkv apps.

If so, then DVDFab should do the job just as well for the complete BD disc rip part, so no Windows license or VM required.

Correct that's what I do with DVDFab and it works perfectly, no need for Windows.
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post #33 of 38
5/29/11 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by tux99 View Post

Correct that's what I do with DVDFab and it works perfectly, no need for Windows.

Yes, one needs the streams then you can put them into whatever container you prefer. I am sure DVDFab works but I use what I am used to and what I paid for.
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post #34 of 38
5/30/11 at 6:53am
Subsonic - take amazon/google/apple cloud music storage into your own hands.
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post #35 of 38
5/31/11 at 1:17pm
Just a heads up that the latest DVDFab was rebuilt with Qt.

http://www.dvdfab.com/download.htm

http://www.dvdfab.com/dvd_fab_new.htm

and appears to run even better under Wine. The old mouse pick bug in the setup/config menu tree is gone- you can now directly select any pick in the left panel menu tree!

Other random GUI glitches (which didn't affect disc ripping) are cleaned up.

Is it just me, or is there a mass exodus from GTK to Qt going on? Time to switch to a Qt-centric desktop, like KDE...
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post #36 of 38
6/6/11 at 11:14pm
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Originally Posted by Mac The Knife View Post

RubyRipper unfortunately something seems to be broken with RubyRipper these days and it's taking forever to compare the tracks and generate the MD5SUM while hardly using any CPU while doing it, so it seems to have some kind of low priority issue. This is my favorite native Linux ripper because I can turn off CDParanoia which is both slow and does a crappy job and instead just use the track comparison feature to get an accurate rip, so I'm very distraught about it not working right now.

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EAC I still use this for ripping CDs because every native Linux App I've tried is painfully slow and still has tons ot errors because almost all of them use CDParanoia which is just plain bad. I really wish someone would write a native Linux CD ripper that uses the AccurateRip database but it seems that streaming has killed off everyone's interest in CD Rippers, so I guess I'll just keep using EAC even though I probably wouldn't recommend it to new users due to the really steep learning curve.

I've been playing with a few different ripping programs listed in this thread tonight. It seems that k3b will actually let you disable CDParanoia, at least in the little testing I've done in the last few minutes. I just ripped 2 CDs without CDParanoia starting by setting the level to 0 in k3b.
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post #37 of 38
6/7/11 at 1:46pm
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Originally Posted by lackskill View Post

I've been playing with a few different ripping programs listed in this thread tonight. It seems that k3b will actually let you disable CDParanoia, at least in the little testing I've done in the last few minutes. I just ripped 2 CDs without CDParanoia starting by setting the level to 0 in k3b.

Last time I tried that it didn't work for me, it still used CDParanoia, guess I need to try it again some time.

BTW, if someone is willing to give this ripper a try, I'd be interested in your results:

morituri

This one is written by one of the Fedora developers and supposedly uses the accuraterip database. Unfortunately it's only a command-line version and I haven't been able to get it to recognize any optical drives in Debian-based distros. So I think there's something "redhat" specific that he's relying on AFA device access is concerned.
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post #38 of 38
6/7/11 at 5:16pm
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Originally Posted by Mac The Knife View Post

Last time I tried that it didn't work for me, it still used CDParanoia, guess I need to try it again some time.

BTW, if someone is willing to give this ripper a try, I'd be interested in your results:

morituri

This one is written by one of the Fedora developers and supposedly uses the accuraterip database. Unfortunately it's only a command-line version and I haven't been able to get it to recognize any optical drives in Debian-based distros. So I think there's something "redhat" specific that he's relying on AFA device access is concerned.

I'd have tried it out last night as none of the solutions I used were elegant by any means. k3b froze after every completed rip but it was successful on all the discs I needed to get done except one that was just too far gone and it had to kill some process before every rip.


On another note, now I've been fighting with rhythmbox, Asunder, and Amarok all day trying to get my ipod to sync and to be able to use playlists. Amarok kept freezing too, so I'm guessing there's something wrong with the kde stuff I've got installed (I'm running Gnome/Ubuntu) that messing me up with Amarok/k3b. I've finally resorted to my windows VM and itunes which is painfully slow so far. But this is, at best, loosely on topic for this thread and not HTPC related...
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