DVDFab 4.0.0.8 with path player enabled and change dvd playback order. All seems to work will do some more testing on other titles.

Big thanks from me as well, Fengtao. You've done a great service/favor for we Linux users. You'll soon have a great following on this side of the line as you now have in Windows users. Again, thank you.

Trespasser/bjgood

I will be doing some testing on xorg versions as I believe this might be the cause for some of little issues users have...right now I have xorg 6.8.2 with some of the older xfree compatibility stuff left in. I will be testing on the supergamer vl edition with newer xorg version as well as the vector testing iso with xorg 7.2. I will test on nvidia as well as ati to see if there are differences in the driver releases

After running a Sony disc through DVDFab 4.0.0.8 the ripped files (full movie) could not be processed by DVD Shrink. I then ran them through VobBlanker to strip the extras and all worked well. I will run the same disc through on Windows and see what happens when I get the time.

Very impressive, I am not a Linux nOOb, but still have a lot to learn. That is what I like about Linux, the choices and freedom to have the OS the way you want it.

What is the specific movie?
Also, FixVTS works fine under Wine also; you may try running the files through it before DVDShrink; it's fixed things for me occasionally.

The movie is The Break-up and DVDFab 4.0.0.8 has the same problem with this movie on Windows XP Pro so I do not believe it is a problem with Wine. I did not try FixVTS as I wanted to blank all the crap anyways. The files went right through Shrink after processing with VobBlanker. Ripit4Me had no problem with this title on Linux, just goes to show what a solid program it is, it will be missed.

Guys once I rip a movie in FabDecrypter how can I get it to fit on one 4.7G DVD. I have dvd shrink but do not understand how to work it. I am running Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10. Thanks for the help.

Did you rip to ISO image or Hard Disk folder? Either way, you can Open Files with Shrink, select Re-author mode, drag main movie to the left and Backup!. Google DVDShrink guide, there's plenty one of the better known is on mrbass.org.

ok some testing and on hardware so far with the new release of the harddrive decrypter...new version 4.0.1...running wine .9.23 on a 2 different kernels with 2 different nvidia drivers, no issues other than actually having it make an iso which I cannot get it to but copying to the harddrive in folders is no problem then burning to a dvd.

I was able to get version 4.0.1 on Wine 0.9.46 to create an ISO with no problems, I did change the default destination to my home folder.

http://www.geocities.com/wildchild776977/iso4.png

I think this old of wine is giving some issues. I adjusted the users.reg in the .wine folder to the desktop and it seems to be working without issues...I will need to adjust that to fine tune where I want everything going but not a big deal. I do have the dvdfab desktop icon as well as the png if you would like. I have the icon picture located on this install in the /usr/share/icons folder and that is where the .desktop points to get it's icon which is changable for any linux distro. I can send this to you if you would like

So could someone tell me what I need to do after I rip a title with Fab Decrypter? I tried to use Shrink BUT after seeing it was going to take over 1 hour to process there needs to be something else easier and faster. HELP!!!!!

Wow, this is an awesome thread. I've been dual booting windows/ubuntu for a short bit. The only reasons I boot to windows these days are to use my DVDFabHD Decrypter (along with DVD2ONE), and Vegas Video editing software.

I'm going to install wine on my Ubuntu 7.10 this weekend and give DVDFab another shot. I tried it a while back when running Ubuntu 7.04 but had really poor results.

If this works out, I'll be formating my XP drive for storage when I get a suitable replacement for Vegas / DVDArchitect.

Thanks Guys...

What are your computer specs? Also what settings are you using in Shrink? The deep analysis feature will double the time to process, but improve quality. As for easier and faster there may be other programs that will work with Wine or you could try the platinum version of DVDFab.

As for my favorite DVD Tool in action in Linux DVD Rebuilder
http://my.afterdawn.com/wolfmanz/sho...cfm/15123/full

I now have the latest DVDFab beta running on Debian Etch with Wine 0.9.25 looks good so far. It took me a while to get it going, first time running Debian.

Other programs I have going so far.

DVD Shrink
DVD Decrypter
ImgBurn

DVDFab 4.0.1.4 on Debian 4.0 Etch on a very old machine!

Hey.

I've just tried again with DVDFabHDDecrypter on Linux. I've posted a bunch regarding RipIt4Me and now DVDFab over at:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=13836&start=60

I'm Eck over there.

My current setup is Wine 0.9.50 and the latest DVDFabHDDecrytpter 4016 Beta on OpenSUSE 10.3. I'm using NVidia Beta 169.04 drivers and XServer 1.4 and Xorg 7.3 from the Xorg 7.4 private home: Build Service repo, along with the latest KDE and Gnome, Compiz Fusion, Multimedia:/Audio for Alsa, etc from the Build Service.

I've recently encountered a problem with Wine where I must rename /usr/lib/wine/winealsadrv.so to winealsadrv.so.old and run with OSS checked in winecfg as the audio driver, which I guess using the alsa-oss wrapper as the audio in Wine programs is working. With that winealsadrv.so existing, Wine stuff just errors out including wineprefixcreate and winecfg. The Wine folks feel it's an Alsa bug so I reported it to Novell's bugzilla as they recommended.

Now, to DVDFab! I have now successfully ripped and burned (with K3b) two encrypted dvd's using DVDFabHDDecrypter! Nice.

One problem I have is the options window does not do anything when I click the various sections on the left. The window just stays on the current dvd information. I cannot change any settings this way. I have turned off Compiz Fusion and just use Kwin so it's not compositing interfering. The mouse clicks on the headings just have no effect.

After the installation of the program and wineboot, and then rebooting the computer, things looked okay and I proceeded to rip the first movie.

When I was done and had burned the movie, for some reason my two Windows partitions had been unmounted. Once I restarted the computer again they were back. This is similar to how when months ago I had tried DVDFab it had made my cd drives non-dma and K3b had destroyed one of my multisession cdr's when I had it burn more files to it. Somehow DVDFab gets involved in the Linux file system more than programs like DVDDecrypter, RipIt4Me, and DVDShrink do. Things were fine when I restarted the computer, just like now.

When I did my next rip, all was well following the rip. All I needed to do was wineboot so I could simulate a Windows restart and clear DVDFab out of memory. It had not tinkered with my drives. Perhaps the tinkering with stuff is only done during the initial installation or first run. That's cool since we shouldn't need to restart the computer or logout and in all the time after running DVDFab. But after the first use, yeah, things are somewhat messed up.

I have experimented with turning off auto-run and turning it on and that does not seem to have any effect upon DVDFab. It worked either way. I don't have a selection made automatically and just hit open the folder to view files. I had tried Do Nothing, but that resulted in the mounted DVD not being detected by DVDFab. Only opening the DVD in Konqueror first enabled DVDFab to see the disc, even though on OpenSUSE the DVD is mounted automatically by udev. I have libdvdcss2 installed, but it didn't interfere this time.

My previous attempt months ago was on Debian Lenny, which does not mount the dvd unless I either have KDE's auto-run do it or I mount it myself. At that time, I could only get the green pixalated bad rips of encrypted dvd's using DVDFabHDDecrypter. I have no idea if the current versions of Wine and DVDFab now work on Debian, but I think the folks on the Debian forum thread I linked to are now trying it out again.

Right now for me, it appears that accessing the DVD by opening it in Konqueror actually helps the process. And the great difference is it is now working!

I hope the problem with the settings window can be solved. I don't have that problem in DVDShrink so it's not as if I can't click things with the mouse and have them open. It's only in DVDFabHDDecrypter that the problem has occured for me. I tried double clicking the links, single clicking, right clicking, but none of the sections open and the main settings window just stays open to the current dvd's information. I also tried it without a dvd in the drive with the same problem happening.

It's exciting that things are looking better and better now for DVDFab in Wine and Linux! Hopefully we can get the remaining difficulties dealt with.

Currently, I haven't even installed DVD ripping software onto my Windows partitions as I had been using RipIt4Me on my Linux distro and that work around (that's me that contributed that to the WineHQ RipIt4Me appdb listing). Heh, I even got an honorable mention for it on the myguides how-to article.

But the future is in DVDFab. I'm going to purchase it, probably next month as I'm broke now and also want to check out if it continues to work through version upgrades of Wine and DVDFab. I believe in supporting folks who contribute nice programs and packages that help make computing a pleasant experience. That's why I bought OpenSUSE 10.3 and even paid for a Mandriva Powerpack subscription after only trying out the One cd. I just was impressed enough to want to help further the work. I have no employment, being a live in caregiver for Mom, so that's kind of why I'm broke right now, and most of the time actually. But I spend a lot of time at my computer and just like to help out when I can. I do have to pick my spots carefully though. Hopefully, the Platinum version's extra features will work properly as well. Not all of them, but the shrinking and burning stuff would be nice since they make the whole process one step.

Thanks for the improvements in a great program that I've been looking to use for a long time now. Finally, it appears to do its job in Wine albeit with a few minor hiccups we'll get fixed, hopefully.

Thast is one of the problems I have as well. You should be able to navigate the options menu by using the up and down arrow keys in combination with the mouse, works for me.

My windows drives do not unmount but it seems that when I open my home folder the free space is off by 1 gig or so until I log out or restart my box.

One problem I have you did not mention has to do with the upper left hand task bar going blank after Fab completes analyzing the disc. When Compiz is enabled I can fix this by dragging Fab up to the taskbar. With desktop effects off it will not correct itself until I open another program.

Most of these are minor issues that will hopefully get worked out down the road.

The menu acts funky for me as well. I've now got DVDFab HD Decrypter 4.0.1.2 under Wine 0.9.46.
The movies appear to come out great for me since the green pixelation issue was dealt with (not letting anything access the disc before Fab).

Regarding the progress bar going white, I solve that by minimizing the windows (or switching to another screen) and Refreshing the desktop.

By the upper left hand taskbar, I assume you mean the one that DVDFabHDDecrypter puts there? Hey, I just get a colored bar there that doesn't show anything or change.

Once done with the rip I can open Konqueror, which with Kwin running things opens over that bar. Then I close Konqueror and that bar has been removed.

I haven't tried it with Compiz running yet. I usually don't turn of Compiz for anything, including Wine stuff. I ran more stuff in Debian without Compiz but on SUSE it's compiz-manager loads it automatically so I've gotten used to it being on all the time. I just remove the Desktop Pager before logging out and put it back after logging in and Compiz has been started so it will work perfectly. I had been running the RipIt4Me process without turning Compiz off. But seeing as DVDFab things had been troublesome for me in the past, I wanted to be sure nothing was interfering with the process.

After the very first install and run that unmounting of the Windows partitions happened but that hasn't occured since. I think things are fine now as far as any interference in normal file system things. It was just the first time that made things go strangely with it.

I'll try the up and down arrows next time in the settings menu. We'll need to access some of those things for certain dvd's so I hope it works as you said.

After reading a bit, I'm reminded about the patin-coufflin driver used in the Platinum edition. Perhaps that was what had caused my burners to have temporary glitches in the area of dma being off and K3b burning failing back when I used the Platinum Trial version. I think it is possibly something to stay away from installing with Wine on Linux. Too bad. Platinum has some nice features. But we can still use DVDShrink and K3b to get some of that stuff done once DVDFabHDDecrypter has ripped the whole dvd. Imgburn is also a powerful tool, although I've only used that on a real Windows box. I've heard it works fine with Wine with one simple adjustment. Got that printed out somewhere. But to this point K3b hasn't failed me in doing nice dvd-video burning. I think we only miss having the disk burned as dvd-rom instead of dvd+r, but my players have been playing the burned dvd-video's regardless of that. I mostly used to use Nero in Windows for this, and Nero changes them to dvd-rom automatically. I'm not sure if imgburn is capable of doing that when running in Linux.

My old Windows way was DVDDecrypter with AnyDVD in the background. I also had CloneCD and would back up some games and copy other cd's with that occasionally. Even with normal data, vcd's or music cd's without any protection I had found CloneCD to be more dependable than Nero for those things. With being in Linux so much I haven't bothered to install those things on my Windows partitions this time around. The other day I backed up my retail dual-layer dvd's of OpenSUSE 10.3 using K3b and they verified and appear to be perfect copies. On Windows stuff like that just wouldn't copy right using Nero but CloneCD did them perfectly. I guess K3b is just better? Amazing it's free, isn't it? I paid $100 for Nero 6 and again for 7 and recently upgraded to Nero 8 for my XP partition and that, although discounted, wasn't cheap. But K3b is still more dependable. Go figure!

Using the up/down arrows and clicking in the side bar with the mouse in between each section change makes that work fine.

And, I've done a few more movies and one was Arcoss protected. All worked fine and DVDShrink was able to handle them all perfectly, shrinking them down to DVD5 size. Burned fine with K3b and played fine.

Since this is the first time I've been able to actually use DVDFabHDDecrypter, having failed to get encrypted dvd's done using it in Wine a few months ago, I'm enthused that it now works and see the professional appearance of it and options available as fantastic.

Don't know whether it was changes in Wine, Linux, or DVDFab technology that's got it working but whatever it is I appreciate the work done on the program and look forward to using it from now on for my dvd ripping.

Thanks for a great program!

Thanks to all. Now that Fab works under WINE, I'm 100% Ubuntu-Linux. No need to boot into Windows anymore. My DVDFab product Key works OK too.
Great product.

So, reylafo, your Platinum version doesn't effect how your Linux based burning tools behave or your drives? I was worried about that patin-couflin driver that Platinum uses for its burning features. I just remember problems using K3b after using DVDFabHDPlatinum's trial version a few months ago.

I'd like to find out because if the additional features provided by Platinum work and don't effect the drives negatively, then a purchase will be in the works for me.

The process I'm using, ripping with DVDFabHDDecrypter, shrinking with DVDShrink with a deep analysis, and burning with K3b (actually tested last time in Gnome with Brasero and that worked too) has been working fine. But it is quite time consuming doing the Shrink part and I know DVDFabPlatinum would do that faster with probably around the same quality. DVDShrink is faster when used in Windows but takes about the time it takes to play the DVD when doing the shrinking when used with Wine in Linux. A bit quicker, but still a long wait. Being able to do it all, plus the burning, with DVDFabHDPlatinum would be great. Click a button, go away, and come back with a DVD all finished. Not exactly that easy but close.

I only have the Fab-Gold version. Only use it for spliting DVD-9 titles. Tested with "Pirates of the Ca...-3" under WINE , worked OK. Always burn with K3B after mounting and checking the .iso.
So far K3B has worked great.
dahveed3- the purchase of this software is the correct and best thing to do.
Is a program that works great and is updated constantly. Worth every penny.
I have used it since it was free, and didn't thought twice when it was time to send my money.
Buy it now.

Heh heh, a ringing endorsement! Okay, but there won't be money until next month so "buy it now" is not an option. I would have bought it months ago but not if it wouldn't do a thing for me, which was the case when it wasn't working with Wine.

The directions regarding just not letting anything else access the dvd before DVDFab does is not in any way related to it not working before and working now in my case. It didn't work before whether I had something else access the dvd or not, and works now whether or not I allow something else to access it.

Something is just different about DVDFab, Wine, or the Linux distribution's setup that is now making it able to decrypt protected content.

I agree about supporting the work as a sign of appreciation and encouragement. I make it a point to do that when it is possible for me to do so. As an example, I have purchased two Linux distributions even though it wasn't a requirement. It's just a way of saying thanks and supporting further good stuff.

I'll be redoing my system soon as I want to change some hardware and software. I'll check out how the trial version of Platinum works when I'm done and make a decision at that time.