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New laptop saga continuation
Sep. 4th, 2007 07:36 pmYay! DivX worked! Still need to figure out how to recreate the menus for all the tracks, but the ripped DVD plays like the original. DivX can do the menus too, but I'm still figuring that part out.
This is the end result of a weekend of searching for DVD ripping software that would work in Vista. It's not that Vista is a bad program - it's pretty as can be, and it works just fine for office stuff once you locate where everything is being stored.
It's just that half of it is missing. (and this is coming from a person who is only semi-technical).
Once I got the other half loaded in by searching for and locating various DLLs, filters and codecs for doing media things, it worked fine...
But then, I'm used to that with Debian, so it wasn't an entirely foreign experience for me... I can't imagine what this would have been like for someone who used nothing but Windows 3.1 through XP for the last 15 years.
This is the end result of a weekend of searching for DVD ripping software that would work in Vista. It's not that Vista is a bad program - it's pretty as can be, and it works just fine for office stuff once you locate where everything is being stored.
It's just that half of it is missing. (and this is coming from a person who is only semi-technical).
Once I got the other half loaded in by searching for and locating various DLLs, filters and codecs for doing media things, it worked fine...
But then, I'm used to that with Debian, so it wasn't an entirely foreign experience for me... I can't imagine what this would have been like for someone who used nothing but Windows 3.1 through XP for the last 15 years.