Episode: 2549
Title: HPR2549: DVD ripping using old hardware
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2549/hpr2549.mp3
Transcribed: 2025-10-19 05:18:43

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This is HPR episode 2,549 entitled DVD ripping using old hardware.
It is hosted by Archer 72 and is about 5 minutes long and carries a clean flag.
The summary is how I put an older machine and a little cache to reverse it.
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Good day listeners, this is Archer 72.
I think I finally got everything together for this episode for HPR.
Go through how in the steps of how I put together a DVD ripping and CD ripping machine from
old hardware.
I had a tower that I had put aside in storage and is sat for about a year and a wife found
a motherboard at the Goodwill, which was actually a savers, had ran about $8, but found
out that they had no video on the board.
So I picked up an 8-meg video card just to get the video running to see what it was
outputting and if it was getting in errors.
At this point I found out the power supply fan had seized up on me so I ended up going
to, we have a fries out here and they found out that I was going to put the fan into
a power supply and I got a huge warning about how I would electrocute myself as I put
this fan in without taking precautions.
So anyways I got everything back together and it powered up fine and I used a live USB
distro to see what I could get working on this particular system.
Almost forgot I didn't have any distros installed to the hard drive I decided instead to use
a USB key as a way of installing my media because I way I could make it portable to take
it to any machine and also I could make it a lot easier for me to back up just to my laptop
or the network.
At the time I tried ARCH because that was working for me and I got it installed and some
time later about 6 months later I found out that I was going to have an end of life in
the 2017 correction.
The end of life was for a 32-bit system of ARCH so that's why I was needed to move on
to a different type of distribution and for a lot of HPRs I had heard Clot 2 talk about
Slackware so I was thinking maybe that would work.
When I was doing the install I found it useful to have a script so that I could charute
into the new Slackware install because I was having a little bit of trial and error to
get it to boot completely.
I needed a boot delay in the making it RC otherwise it had a message about not finding
slash MNT in the Etsy F stab.
The first thing I did after getting a successful boot was changed the SSH to an alternative
port and then I was able to SSH into the buy box, install MPlayer, T-MUX and RIP it, of
course after I had installed SBO package which is a package manager for SlackBuilds.org.
After a bit of searching I found out I could use MPlayer to rip streams from movies and
for TV shows because that's actually the best way to bypass the encryption.
Next I installed T-MUX which is a terminal multiplexer so I can jump back and forth between
a different laptop PC or mobile device.
As I mentioned before I needed to rip any type of video media regardless of encryption.
So this method only needed live DVD, CSS to read the DVD and I could do anything including
Disney I'm looking at use with Star Wars and the Tron movies.
A bonus to building this machine is that I could rip CDs using the RIP it, command line
utility.
Scripts are in the show notes and on GitHub for the stream ripping and the TV show ripping.
Happy ripping.
I can be reached on IRC on FreeNode, user name Archer72 or unmaskedon.xyz at Archer72.
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