Vulnerability question

[Marian Hettwer]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:08:32 +0200, Harald Weis <hawei at free.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:40:52PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:56:54PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote:
>> > Building lxdvdrip stops because linux-pango has known
>> > vulnerabilities.
>>
>> You can ignore vulnerabilities by setting the environment variable
>> DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES. See ports(7).
> 
> Yes, I've done this already, but I've stepped back because I cannot
> evaluate the risk.
> 
>> Are you running a linux binary of mplayer? Because a native mplayer
>> binary does not require linux-pango! It just uses the native pango.
> 
> In fact, it's lxdvdrip which requires linux-pango [via linux-gtk2].
> lxdvdrip is happy with the native mplayer.
> 
>> If you want to rip DVDs, you can simply use mplayer:
>>
>>   mplayer dvd://N -dumpstream -dumpfile title.mpg
>>
>> where N is the number of the title you want.

and though it doesn't help you with your specific problem. Ever took a look
into handbrake? Handbrake is a fine dvd ripper. Although I couldn't answer
the question about burning the rip afterwards.
But give handbrake a try :)

Cheers,
Marian