Commercial DVD rip and play

I used DeVeDe or K3B or dvd:rip to rip Matrix Revolutions. It created a bunch of .avi files. #3 is the movie itself.
I'm using Totem to watch it. Had to download some other stuff like Mediabuntu but finally got it playing. Problem is I have no control over the chapters. Any attempt to move forward just starts the file over again. What are you fellers using to watch commercial movies that have been ripped to your HDD's?

 

Try VLC, MPLayer, or Kaffeine (in that order).

 

Odd, the medibuntu stuff with totem works for me (Ubuntu 7.10).

 

If I recall correctly, avi files are just a container file that can store video in many different formats. Using dvdrip, you are converting the DVD (and most importantly compressing even further) into another format, and I don't think the Chapter information can be transferred.

 

I install DVDFab through Wine to rip the DVDs. It works fine, but for some reason the GUI is slightly off. Hopefully Heron will fix it. I watch them in VideoLAN.

 

Yeah, you'd have to keep the DVD in .iso form or at least preserve the directory structure with the video .vob format to have access to chapters. I know VLC will open a ripped .iso and play it as if you'd inserted the DVD into a drive and opened that (i.e. all the menus will be available).

Have you tried K9Copy for ripping the DVDs? It should give you a .iso .

 

Try acidrip - you will need Mencoder installed.
http://untrepid.com/acidrip/

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Thanks for the good suggestions. I'll try some of them out. I don't have broadband at home so have to remember what to download whenever I get in front of some bandwidth.
Multimedia is a subject unto itself; didn't realize there'd be so much learnin' involved...