Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > On 12/16/2011 10:12 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right place. > > > > I so far have not been able to get the layer break value from the IFO file. > > > > You need to use cdrecord -atip to get the layer

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 12/16/2011 10:12 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right place. > > I so far have not been able to get the layer break value from the IFO file. > > You need to use cdrecord -atip to get the layer break value and then use > cdrecord la

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 December 2011, at 03:07, Grant Edwards wrote: > ... >>> ? I absolutely dread going to >>> back to MythTv with a big, hot, noisy PC sitting next to my TV? >> >> I bought an eMachines 1401 recently - it's not as perfectly silent as >> the PlayOn (which is fanless), but it's *very* close. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 16 December 2011 19:15:12 Stroller wrote: > On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more > > about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K > > investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Joerg Schilling wrote: >This is interestingas some mkisofs users report that there are DVDs that look >as if there is a need to introduce negative padding between some files. There's DVDs that look (to e.g. lsdvd) as if there were ~60 Tracks of various sizes used, wit

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Stroller wrote: >On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: >> ... >> I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more >> about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K >> investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stroller wrote: > I have found writing dual-layer DVDs practically impossible. The failure rate > is way too high - even disks which burned "successfully" are unreadable on > another PC / player. Dual layer DVDs will only work, if the layer break is at the right place. I so far have not been

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Michael Mol wrote: > dvdbackup can recreate the ISO images, IIRC. No, dvdbackup just creates a readable mirror copy from the directory tree on the DVD. You need to use mkisofs -dvd-video to create a new ISO image that can be written to DVD. > If you run a simple 'dd' on a DVD with encrypted p

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: >> ... >> I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more >> about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K >> investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs,

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stroller wrote: > I'm in the process of trying media-tv/xbmc instead - I believe it handles > menus, but haven't got far enough to test that It does, I've been using it on my xbox for years. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: > ... > I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more > about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K > investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep the ripped > version here to watch on the computer,

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: >On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. >> dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. [..] >Interesting. So even something that just copies blocks of data, like >d

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. >>> >>> dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. >> >> dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. >> >> On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >>> >>> For a

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. > > > > dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. > > > > On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > >> > >> For archive purposes is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. > > dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. > > On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> >> For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a >> bit-f

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Mol
No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. On Dec 16, 2011 11:09 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a > bit-for-bit copy retail DVDs I've purchased? > > Assume that I've got

[gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a bit-for-bit copy retail DVDs I've purchased? Assume that I've got the right sort of DVD drive, I guess something capable of writing dual-layer DVDs. Thanks, Mark