Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 16 May 2009, at 19:00, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >>> ... > >>> 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? > > You can play the dvd.iso using mplayer - it will decrypt on the fly - > or you decrypt them some other method before re-authoring. Usually I > just convert them to mp4 using mplayer / mencoder.
If you like to write it to DVD in a way that allows standalone players to read it, you need to retain the layer break. You read it out with cdrecord and you set it with cdrecord driveropts=layerbreak=# 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