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1. Introduction

So you've bought a shiny new DVD. You think it ultimately rocks and want to be sure that no matter what happens you still have a copy of this movie. But how the heck do you get it from that big DVD onto such a small CD? And in good quality, mind you? Just read on.

WARNING! This guide is not for the faint hearted. It involves a lot of compiling code, installing software, doing things on the command line. If you don't know how to do configure; make; make install then read some other docs and learn about it. If you don't want to then please install Windows and use all those formidable DVD ripping utilities available for it. I won't start a flame war about "Linux vs Windows". It's simply a fact that the process is rather difficult under Linux.

You're still with me? Great! You're about to embark on a journey to a beautiful land...

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