How to rip copy-protected DVDs on Linux in 2024 (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I feel this is kind of a dumb question but I can't find a solution that's working for me:

every now and then I have the need to rip copy protected dvds. In the past I have used Handbrake with libdvdcss. But now there only seems to be flatpak versions of Handbrake for linux and these versions can't access the libdvdcss library.

VLC should be able to do the job but for a specific dvd I wnt to rip now, I produces out-of-sync video/audio tracks and I haven't been able to succeed.

I can't believe ripping dvd's can be that hard. Do I miss something obvious? Any tips are appreciated, aside from just download it - I can't find the respective media anywhere...

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago

Is it not in your distro's repo? I am pretty sure I've used handbrake from Arch repo just fine.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

Building MakeMKV seems to require a binary, which is unfree. I assume this is the reason it's not in official distribution repos (except Nix and FreeBSD).

It's in the AUR and Nixpkgs, both automate building it from "source" (+binary). MakeMKV is in FreeBSDs official repos, according to pkgs.org.