Video stuff in Ubuntu

Switching to Linux means relearning of many old skills. I finally got DVD Decrypter working again. I first tried installing it in a guest XP under virtualbox but it doesn’t work very well. It does do ripping but the output is all messed up somehow. On the other hand, installing using wine goes quite well despite my bad experience on wine. The only problem I faced was that decrypter didn’t recognize the drive at the beginning. But this can be easily solved (after some digging in the internet) by setting DVDDecrypter using NT4.0: open winecfg; under application tab, add application…

DVD Decrypter seems to fail for some DVDs but Ripit4me seems to take care of that.

I am still looking for a good tool to transcode MPEG2 video to Divx or Xvid under Ubuntu. I used to use guardian knot in WinXP. I am testing Avidemux right now. It seems doing the job okay.