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When Handbrake Doesn't Work

How To Rip a DVD with Mplayer

I run a media server at home to feed music and movies to my LG smart TV (affiliate link). Ripping the family’s DVD collection is one of my tasks as the resident computer geek. Normally, Handbrake is my go-to tool for this type of thing, but in this case it was unable to detect the correct title from the DVD structure. In this tutorial I’ll show how to rip a DVD on Linux with Mplayer.
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Install HandBrake on Linux Mint 13

HandBrake is a program for transcoding video files. By default it transcodes video to H.264 format, so the files get compressed to a reasonable size while retaining high audio and video quality. There are versions available for Windows, OSX, and Linux. In this post I’m going to show how to install it in Linux Mint 13 using an Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package Archive). Continue reading