Baserip is a tool for copying a single video title from a DVD whilst transcoding it. The purpose of this is to make the video available to devices you may have which do not have a DVD player.
Baserip is designed to work with a clean DVD source like the ones you get on bought DVD disks. Baserip was created because Acidrip is no longer being maintained and I found myself needing a DVD ripper, if you’re interested a little more please see Motivation For Creating Baserip.
The design of Baserip was heavily influenced by Acidrip but has now significantly changed. Baserip is, in fact, a simple front-end to avlib/avconv which is itself a front-end to some video encoding and decoding libraries. Everything that Baserip does can be achieved from the command line, Baserip just simplifies the process.
Unpack the tarball and go into the top level directory. As root type:
python3 setup.py install
The installation directory is usually: /usr/local/lib/python3.x/dist-utils
Here you will find Baserip. Within Baserip you will find a “share” directory. In this there is a .desktop file and an icon. You can use these to manually add an entry to your desktop menu system.
In order to run Baserip you will need the following: