Ravenc 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.
Ravenc is designed to work with a clean DVD source like the ones you get on bought DVD disks. Ravenc 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 Ravenc was heavily influenced by Acidrip but has now significantly changed. Ravenc 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 Ravenc does can be achieved from the command line, Ravenc 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
Ravenc will install a desktop file into /usr/share/applications called ravenc.desktop. You can use this to add an entry into your desktop menu.
In order to run Ravenc you will need the following: