I've had shitluck trying to john dvds that fell off the back of a truck. Is this a windows thing or will it work on linux too?

I haven't been able to fathom this message at all, apart from that you want this windows software to be on linux. john dvds? 

The cannuck version of Jim, maybe?
To be honest, I'm as confused as you are

Yeah, Jim. Sorry. Most of the problems seems to be with a) decss and b) dl dvds. Never been able to burn one.

XMedia Recode works well. Converts any video format into any other, resizes etc.