Program suggestion

[Luke-Jr]

Already exists. I don't imagine it would be a huge project to get K3b to 
support it. To shrink, use tcrequant (part of transcode). To rip, use 
dvdbackup (probably many other options, incl K3b).

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 14:51, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
> DVD Shrink  http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html for Linux would be great.
> It is freeware, http://www.dvdshrink.org/license.html, so you might get
> a look at the code if you asked nice.  If all else fails you could see
> what the program does and replicate.  Basically it scans/rips the files
> on a DVD, unlocks the menus, allows you to compress and burn or reauthor
> a DVD.  It interfaces with Nero for the burning of the copy.  I don't
> know how hard all this would be, but it is definitely missing.  I'd
> imagine that some of the functionality is out there as OSS for things
> such as the compression and you could interface with one of the burning
> apps like K3B that burn DVDs.  Look into dvd::rip and DeCSS.  Some of
> this may already work, but putting several pieces of console-based
> software together with a GUI may be what's needed.  I have no idea how
> to do this on Linux and just started doing it on Windows.
>
> Also a DVD Decrypter on Linux is needed.
>
>
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> --- Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest a small application CLI or GUI
> > that just seems to be "missing" from Linux? Not
> > necessarily an application that exists in Windows,
> > but not in Linux, but a program that would make \
> > some part of your Linux experience better.
> >
> > I am just dying to make a cool Linux app/project,
> > but I am lacking ideas.  For interface, I am
> > considering console, GTK+ or Qt.  For programming
> > language, I am considering Python or C++;
> >
> > I appreciate your ideas.
>
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