However, it seems some types of copy protection really slow DVDFab down under Wine, and the sony structured protection pretty much stalls it all together.

Those which had problems, the other 50% under DVDFab.The only discs I was not able to rip at all under Wine were Curse of the Golden Flower, and The Water Horse. About 50% I ripped with DVDShrink under Wine. Over the last week I ripped about 50 DVD's I purchased at Blockbuster's going out of business sales under Linux. The disc ripped in under 10 minutes, from the time I inserted into the DVD drive. I just finally had a chance to reboot to windows. Curse of the Golden Flower is a 2007 DVD. I usually run programs such as running ccextractor to extract closed caption, mencoder to extract subtitles. In that it is easier to automate the rest of the conversion process under Linux than it is under windows. Overall, the advantages of running DVDFab under wine seem to outway the disadvantages. I haven't found a DVD yet that isn't decoding properly under WINE, so I guess running DVDFab ontop of libcssdvd doesn't circumvent it's ability to decode some of the newer DVD's. Then I can simply update the symbolic link rather than changing the location. As for the mounting DVD, I found the easiest thing to do is map wine to use a symbolic link in my home directory to the automount DVD mount location. I think it is slightly slower running under Wine, but not nearly as significant as I thought. It turns out the first three DVD's I tried under Fedora where simply DVD's that take two to three times more to decode than the average DVD. It turns out I was blaiming Wine prematurely.

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