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Rip DVD

dvdbackup & vobcopy are both simple tools to rip a DVD:

$ dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o output_dir
  # -M mirrors the DVD image, use -F to copy main features only
$ vobcopy -i /dev/dvd -m

Side note, vobcopy couldn’t handle DVD directory structure in lowercase, dvdbackup could.

Encode DVD

For encoding a ripped (or not) DVD in various formats, acidrip does a good job without overwhelming you with options. dvdrip is the power user version. Though the main difference between the two applications is that acidrip is based on mencoder whereas dvdrip is based on transcode.

Copy VCD

To copy a VCD, use readcd (part of the cdrtools package):

$ readcd -clone dev=/dev/dvd -f filename

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