Decent DVD rippers?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 03.02.2012 16:16, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>
>> IIRC, Andres was working on it last. The last problem I remember was
>> that it contained code from the reference mpeg2 encoder, which
>> required license/copyright clarification or having those parts dropped
>> from the package.
>>
>> IIRC, A number of missing packages require gpac.
>
>
> Damn, that stupid mpeg license text is nearly the same as in faac. There it
> turned the whole library non-free and even non-distributable - whereas,
> that's our interpretation, I am not sure what ftp-masters think about it
> (did we ever try to upload faac yet?).

I've asked debian-legal (with zero response) and then abandoned faac.
I've escalated this question to the ubuntu technical board, and
they've decided faac was redistributable but non-free. So that
wouldn't help us much.

Maybe we can port/replace the offending parts with code from libavcodec?

>
> BTW, I am sorry I started this madness, but let's plase just answer to the
> list again.

No worries.

> BTW2, there is also a nearly-ready transcode 1.1.3 package prepared in git
> which "just" needs review of debian/copyright and Build-Depends. This would
> also enable uploading of a lot of packages that depend on it, e.g. dvd::rip.

Cool! I'll try to find time next week to have a look at it.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard