On Wednesday 15 October 2003 06:50 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:12 am, Daniel Axtell wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, > > e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I > > haven't been able to find out much about this. Is there any software > > that makes this easy? > > There is software to do this but making backups of commercial (in most > cases double density) DVD's that are playable on consumer DVD players is > not trivial. That is true for both Linux and Windows. Doing this involves > identifying the vob files that contain the movie that you want, ripping the > vob files from the DVD, passing it through a decoder or plugin to DeCSS the > vob file, removing Macrovision and Country code (if desired) at the same > time, editing the .ifo file to remove references to vob files that are no > longer present and rewriting the decoded vobs and .ifo file to the DVD > blank in the correct format. > > I also can't imagine why you would want to, playing a DVD in a player is > not the same as playing a vinyl record, there is no wear on the DVD and it > should remain fairly pristine (assuming that you don't manhandle the media) > for your lifetime if not longer. > I can tell you one VERY good reason to do this. Well more than one. :) My children are not old enough to jump through all the hoops of wide format, normal format and all of other 7 minutes worth of hoop jumping to just watch the blame movie! I had a brand new Shrek. My 3 year old put it in on top of another disk in my juke box. It scratched it so badly it no longer plays. So from now on I use a windows product (until I find something like it for linux) called DVDXcopy Gold. Wonderful product. Now I keep my originals safely tucked away, and the kids pop this sucker in and it starts playing like a tape. It is GREAT!
> Take a look at the DVDRip interface from PLF.
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