[ubuntu-uk] editing DVD

[Darren Mansell]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 17:10 +0100, norman wrote:
> < snip >
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you, I will investigate and see what's what.
> > > 
> > > This is remarkable. I have used 3 different pieces of software and all
> > > three give the same result. Three .vob files are produced the first of
> > > which seems to be the entire video whereas the other two are parts and
> > > do not cover the whole video. The smaller files play in Avidemux and can
> > > be edited but the large file does not play. The sound is there but the
> > > video appears as many, almost horizontal coloured lines.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone any idea of what is going on?
> 
> > If it wasn't for them being home made DVD's I would say you need libdvdcss installed.
> > 
> I have checked and you could well be right. Not only have I not got
> libdvdcss installed I cannot find it with synaptic. Please advise this
> not very computerate old man on what to do.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
It should just be:

sudo apt-get install libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

But only commercial DVDs are normally scrambled. Wont hurt to give it a
try though.

Darren