Noting this here because all the information I could find on the Interned told me “use MakeMKV for it”. And while MakeMKV seems like a fine product, it’s a bit harder to install, since it doesn’t seem to be packaged for Debian at least. I still gave Handbrake a try (since it is packaged for Debian) and lucky me, it turns out it does work with BlueRay disks.

Now, the following instructions are a bit fuzzy, since I used a bit of a round-about way to achieve this, but here is what I did:

• Installed VLC (just from the repositories, nothing fancy)
• Made sure that it could play BDs
  • It was giving the error “Missing AACS configuration file”. Luckily this askUbuntu answer pointed me in the right direction (and worked for Debian 13)
• Once VLC could play back the BDs, turns out Handbrake could also read them!

Since this is short and sweet, here is an extra tip, courtesy of /r/linuxquestions: how to update the chapter names after encoding? Turns out ffmpeg can do it (què surprise :)):

$ ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -f ffmetadata movie.metadata.txt
# edit movie.metadata.txt
$ ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -i movie.metadata.txt -c copy -map_chapters 1 movie_out.mp4

(image taken from bluecinetech.co.uk with permission under a CC license)

To post a high quality video to Google Video you only have to do:

1. Upload the video
2. Wait

I kid you not :-). While initially the uploaded video is of poor quality, apparently it gets processed in the background and later on (in my experience: it takes around 30 minutes to process 1 hour of uploaded video) a high quality version will be available.

HTH

Jane Austen’s Fight Club via Wondermark:

Sink The Bismarck:

Storm – a beat poem:

Internet is Freedom – a speech given by Lawrence Lessig at the Italian Parlament – via the Security4All blog:

PBS: Copyright Criminals – while the video is not online, you can watch the trailer and listen to some remixes inspired by it which are under a CC license.

And just as a bonus: a cynical video about filtering the Internet – via the IT Law in Ireland blog:

Update:

The History of Copyright Law – via the laughing squid:

TED Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion’s free culture

Update: it seems that I already posted the last video – admittedly I’m becoming senile with the advance of the years

Hattip to refresh.ro.

And here is even more Prodigy music, curtesy of Grooveshark:

• Schneier-Ranum face-off, part1: The future of information security
• Schneier-Ranum face-off, part 2: Social networking
• Schneier-Ranum face-off, part 3: Compliance and security
• Schneier-Ranum face-off, part 4: Cybersecurity coordinator
• Schneier-Ranum face-off part 5: Security metrics
• Schneier-Ranum face-off part 6: Audience questions

And here are some Schneier only videos (the first video has some audio problems in the first 3 minutes, but it gets better afterwards):

Via Naked Capitalism