Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > On 16 May 2009, at 17:46, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > ... > >> Certainly I have copied disks using `dd` a number of times, PRIOR to > >> decryption / ripping. However I cannot state the drives' status for > >> sure - most of mine have region-free firmware applied as soon as I > >> get > >> them. > > > > There are still a lot of DVD-Video media that don't use CSS. > > I have certainly cloned region-protected DVDs on a number of occasions > using `dd`. These disks have given no read errors, and the subsequent > encrypted .iso image has produced perfectly fine rips.
Most video DVDs are dual layer how did you write them? Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily