extract video from DVD

[Vince]

On css encrypted DVDs go to xine.sourceforge.net and click on the .pl link
at the bottom this will take to to a version of xine that has DeCss built
in.

Vince
"The box said requires windows 95 or better so I installed Linux"
Linux user and Geek since 1993

----- Original Message -----
From: "Horst Eyermann" <horst at freedict.de>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: extract video from DVD


> Yes, I saw the API, but as far as I understand its for programmers only.
Under
> linux I just do perl / tcl / python scripting, unfortunately no real
> programming.
>
> There is no such thing as:
>
> vlc -V raw_file
>
> to write the raw stream into a file?
>
> Horst
>
> On 20-Jul-01 Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> > vlc does that by default (it is builtin). Right now they have their dvd
> > css decryption stuf inside a library that is compiled seperately. The
> > library is called libdvdcss and is part of the vlc codebase. On their
> > website www.videolan.org they have a description of their API.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Greetingz,
> > Jean-Paul Saman.
> >
> > Horst Eyermann wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I wondered if anyone on this list would be able to help me.
> >>
> >> Videolan appears to be slow (famedrops on Celron 500) compared to xine.
> >> However
> >> xine is not able to play css encrypted DVD's, where as vlc does without
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> So far I was not able to use libcss sucessfully, so I wondered if it is
> >> possible to use vlc in order to decrypt the disk, store the contence on
disk
> >> and play it from there, or convert to another format (svcd, ...)
> >>
> >> Thanks, horst
> >
> >
>
> Horst at freedict.de
> Horst Eyermann
> Germany
>
> You need a dictionary? - visit http://www.freedict.de
> for free (GPL) dictionaries (unix; windows work in progress)
> For windows, visit http://www.freedict.de/wbuch
>
> A article (in German) about dictionary efforts on the net
> http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/on/5927/1.html
>
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