On 2009-05-16, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 16 May 2009, at 15:56, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-05-16, Ricardo Bevilacqua <rus.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Why don't you use the (very old, but still effective) dd [1] >>> command to create an ISO image? >> >> Because it won't work. >> >> Have you tried it with an encrypted DVD? > > It'll work fine & I do it all the time before I decrypt & rip DVDs.
I've tried it numerous times, and it's never worked for me. > It WILL make an exact copy of the DVD onto the drive (assuming DVD > video, and no ARccOS [1]), it will just be an exact copy of the > *encrypted* movie. It's never worked for me. I only get a fraction of the disk's content followed by a lot of read/seek errors. > It won't be playable without an additional decryption step > (although mplayer can include this step automagically), but it > will be an *exact* copy. Not in my experience. -- Grant
