DVD::RIP is finicky

I’ve been using DVD::RIP for a while now (that means a week) but ever since I upgraded to KDE 3.4 I’ve been having troubles getting it to work reliably will all of the components that it needs. It’s become common for DVD::RIP to tell me that it can’t read dvd’s, encode anything, get a table of contents, or preview a frame. Mind you it can do all of these things - just not at the same time.

And despite this I’ve had an overwhelmingly positive experience with Gentoo. I’m still not smart enough to get a recent release of IPW2200 working with it yet, but I’ve really enjoyed portage. Something about the transparency and fluidity of a package manager that can upgrade and install anything - even itself - is really desirable.