<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign="top"> <DIV align="left"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Someone may of written a script to do this. I managed it using dvdbackup (to rip DVD) . The Linux philosiphy is programs are designed to do one thing well rather than singing and dancing. You may have to write a script to do what you want but this means the individual programs are of mutch greater use. People do however write 'wrapper' gui apps. </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Have a look at:-</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/08/28/1844232.shtml?tid=198&tid=185&tid=4,">http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/08/28/1844232.shtml?tid=198&tid=185&tid=4,</a> a slashdot thread about DVD recording.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ben</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> "Shawn Milo" <ShawnMilo@runbox.com> 09/24/04 08:16pm >>></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">There is an application called "Fair Use Wizard," which </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">will extract a DVD movie into a DivX file. It is fully</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">automated, only requiring the user to specify an output file</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">size (for quality selection) before getting to work. </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Unfortunately, the program is only for Windows. Is there</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">a Linux replacement for this?</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I do not want something where multiple apps are required </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">(one to extract the VOBs, one to do the conversion, etc.)</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I do not want to have to have to pass several arguments to</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">the application at the command line, although I have no problem</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">with a command-line application.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">The application must have the ability to create one DivX file</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">automatically from a feature-length movie, and to create several</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">individual DivX files if the DVD contains episodes, such as </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">"The Simpsons."</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does such an application exist?</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thank you,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Shawn</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ubuntu-users mailing list</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">For more information please visit <a href="http://www.messagelabs.com/email">http://www.messagelabs.com/email</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div> </div> <BR> ______________________________________________________________________<BR> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. 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