- •Introducing Ubuntu
- •About Open Source
- •Free Software Movement, Open Source and Linux
- •The Free Software Movement
- •The Open Source Movement and Linux
- •About Ubuntu
- •The Ubuntu Promise
- •Ubuntu Versions
- •Ubuntu Derivatives
- •Ubuntu Development and the Community
- •Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows: Key Differences
- •Installation
- •Applications
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Exploring the Ubuntu Desktop
- •Ubuntu Desktop Components
- •Changing the Default Language
- •Creating a User Account and Fast User Switching
- •Adding/Removing Applications
- •Desktop Effects - Compiz Fusion
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Using the Internet
- •Connecting to and Using the Internet
- •Network Manager
- •Using a Cable Connection
- •Using a Wireless Card
- •Browsing the Web
- •Using an RSS feed reader
- •Liferea Newsreader
- •Using Evolution Mail
- •Instant Messaging
- •Making Phone Calls Using Softphones
- •Using Ekiga
- •Skype
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Performing Basic Spreadsheet Tasks
- •Performing Basic Drawing Operations
- •Creating and Editing Formulae
- •Additional Applications
- •GnuCash Accounting
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Ubuntu and Games
- •Installing Games on Ubuntu
- •Installing a Game from a Repository
- •Playing Ubuntu Games
- •Playing PlanetPenguin Racer
- •Playing Other Popular Games
- •Installing Wine
- •Playing a Microsoft Windows Game on Ubuntu
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Customising the Desktop and Applications
- •Introduction
- •Customising the Desktop
- •Changing the Background
- •Customising the Theme (Buttons & icons etc)
- •Customising a Screensaver
- •Customising the Screen Resolution
- •Working with Files Using Nautilus
- •Features of Nautilus
- •Nautilus
- •Package Managers
- •Types of Package Managers
- •Using Add/Remove Applications
- •Using Synaptic Package Manager
- •Installing a Single Package File
- •Installing/Uninstalling Debian Packages
- •Software Repositories
- •Software Repository Categories
- •Adding New Language Settings
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Making The Most of Images and Photos
- •Introducing Graphics Applications
- •Viewing and Managing Photos with F-Spot
- •Viewing Photos
- •Organising Photos
- •Removing Red Eye
- •The GIMP
- •Drawing with Inkscape
- •Installing Inkscape
- •Creating Vector Graphic Images Using InkScape
- •Using a Scanner
- •Checking Scanner Compatibility
- •Scanning an Image
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Playing Music and Videos
- •Legal Restrictions
- •Playing Music Files
- •Playing Music using Rhythmbox
- •Playing and Extracting Audio CDs
- •Playing Audio CDs
- •Extracting Audio CDs
- •Burning Audio CDs
- •Playing Proprietary Multimedia Formats
- •Using an iPod
- •Playing Music Using an iPod
- •Creating and Editing Audio Files
- •Creating Audio Files
- •Editing Audio Files
- •Playing DVDs
- •Playing DVDs in Totem Movie Player
- •Backing up DVDs
- •Playing Online Media
- •Watching Videos in a Web Browser
- •Editing Videos
- •Editing videos using Pitivi video editor
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
- •Ubuntu Help and Support
- •Introduction
- •System Documentation
- •Online Documentation
- •Community Support
- •Mailing Lists
- •Web Forums
- •IRC Channels
- •LoCo Teams
- •The Ubuntu Team Wiki
- •Launchpad
- •Launchpad Technical Answers
- •Launchpad Bug Tracker: Malone
- •Shipit
- •The Fridge
- •Paid For Commercial Services
- •Professional Support Services from Canonical
- •The Canonical Marketplace
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Partitioning and Booting
- •What is Partitioning
- •Creating a Partition
- •Installing GParted by Using Synaptic Package Manager
- •Partitioning Using Gparted
- •Boot-up Options
- •Changing the Default Operating System at Boot
- •Lesson Summary
- •Review Exercise
- •Lab Exercise
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Sidebar button.
Figure 8.84: Hiding the Sidebar
Figure 8.85: Viewing the DVD
8.This hides the side bar and now you can view the DVD on a larger space and simultaneously, have all the playback controls right in front of you.
8.8.2Backing up DVDs
Note:
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If you have a collection of old and not-so-easy-to-find DVDs, you may wish to back up these on your computer or create extra copies of them. You may even want to extract certain tracks from your DVD and watch it later. To do so, Ubuntu provides you with a number of DVD backup applications or DVD rippers. Although these applications are not included in Ubuntu by default, you can download and install them from the Ubuntu repositories. Some of these applications are:
•Thoggen
•K9copy
•dvd::rip
•HandBrake
Backing up DVDs Using Thoggen Thoggen is a DVD backup utility for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+. This application is designed to be easy-to-use. Rather than exposing the complexities of the DVD ripping process, which many other applications tend to do, it tries to simplify the process for average users by offering sensible default options.
Thoggen includes certain key features:
•Is easy to use and has a nice graphical user interface (GUI)
•Supports title preview, picture cropping, and picture resizing
•Provides language Selection for audio track
•Encodes into Ogg/Theora video
•Can encode from local directory with video DVD files
•Is based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, which makes it fairly easy to add additional encoding formats/codecs in future.
Thoggen is still beta software, but should work fine nevertheless. It is advisable, however, to check the list of known issues at http://thoggen.net/download/.
To be able to back up your DVD using Thoggen, you need to first install it. You can easily find this application in the Universe repository of Synaptic Package Manager and install it on your computer.
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Figure 8.86: Installing Thoggen
1. On the Applications menu, point to Sound & Video and then click Thoggen DVD Ripper.
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Figure 8.87: Launching Thoggen
2.The Thoggen window appears. As a first step to backing up your DVD, it simply asks you to select the specific tracks on the DVD that you want to back up. Specify the tracks by selecting the corresponding check boxes and then click OK to proceed.
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Figure 8.88: Specifying the Tracks to Back up
3.In the next step of the backing up process, you are allowed to view and configure some of the settings according to your requirements. You can select the picture size from the corresponding drop-down list and define the output crop, by clicking the Configure Cropping button. Otherwise, you cam simply click OK to accept the default settings and continue with the process of backing up your DVD.
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Figure 8.89: Changing Default Settings
4.The DVD backing process starts immediately. You can view the progress of the current as well as the entire process in the Progress section of the Thoggen window. Thoggen takes quite long to backup a DVD. However, the final output is of a very high quality.