HPR2549: DVD ripping using old hardware

1. Had a tower with a bad motherboard.
2. Wife found one at the Savers (Goodwill) for $8
3. Board worked, but had no video
4. Bought a 8mb video card for $10
5. Power supply fan seized, $10,
   • Got a warning about danger of opening up a power supply.
6. Distro should be on a USB key, and run headless
   • Easy way to back up the system
7. Had Arch installed, no 32 bit support after end of 2017
8. Installed Slackware, only working distribution for my hardware
   • Found it useful to have a script to chroot from the install media to the Slackware install.
   • Added a boot delay to mkinitrc for usb, otherwise it would boot with a message about not finding /mnt in /etc/fstab
9. Set up ssh with alternative port
10. Installed mplayer and tmux, and ripit with sbopkg
    • Mplayer to rip streams for movies and shows
    • Tmux is my favorite for resuming from a different PC or mobile
11. Needed a way to rip any media regardless of encryption
    • Only need libdvdcss to read
    • Includes Disney (Star Wars, Tron)
12. CD ripping was a bonus
    • Ripit to rip CDs
13. Scripts are on Github

https://github.com/ricemark20/CD-DVD-ripping-on-Slackware

14. Happy ripping!

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