Created attachment 161138 [details] a picture of the dialogue box provided by k3b describing missing transcode prerequisite. SUMMARY "apt install libdvd-pkg" brings up dialogue that describes update process involving running: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg" This solves the first prerequisite issue. The second prerequisite issue is the transcoder which I could not solve. All they specify is "transcode" which is hardly enough to go on. *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Confirmed on my system. K3b informs on selection of "Rip video DVD" that it requires transcode, but it is actually installed on my system (as /usr/bin/transcode), but in the Programs section of the K3b settings, there is no transcode entry. It seems to me as if K3b was once updated to drop the transcode requirement, but the check still exists and fails for unknown reasons.
Transcoding is just a nice-to-have option. Please make an option for ripping Video DVDs that concatenates the VOB files for each title to a single mpeg2 file. Even simpler, you could copy all VOB files raw, using the excellent rereading and error correction that is already in k3b.