Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 18 December 2011 13:58:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've tried every option I can think of in the kernel config but I still > get the same error. Any other ideas? Thanks for help so far. Hmm. It seems to register as an audio CD, and copying it in K3b creates a 640MB wav file. Now that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 18 December 2011 12:45:44 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Illegal mode for this track is an error code that cannot happen with > DVDs... That eliminates one thing then. > It is unlikely that today photo-CDs are written. It is more likeky a > Picture CD. Ah. I haven't come across those. > If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:49:34 +0100, David Haller wrote: > >You also don't have the hardware to create them. CSS keys are stored > >on a separate area of the disc, an area that is not available on > >DVD-Rs, which is why you cannot copy a CSS-encrypted DVD with dd, it > >copies the encrypted data b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> Yep. I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted >> DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege >> of such a thing shouldn't be used a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: > > > Photo-CD, perhaps? > > Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding > photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't lead > me anywhere. Illegal mode for this tra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick wrote: > You also don't have the hardware to create them. CSS keys are stored on a > separate area of the disc, an area that is not available on DVD-Rs, > which is why yo cannot copy a CSS-encrypted DVD with dd, it copies the > encrypted data but not the decryption keys. This is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:43:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Photo-CD, perhaps? > > Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding > photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't > lead me anywhere. AFAIR, and I haven't used PhotoCD in a LONG time,

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-17, Stroller wrote: > > On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2011-12-17, David Haller wrote: >> Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen TV.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I guess you are saying that either the CSS keys are completely > unnecessary, or that the DVD-RW drive can read but not write to the > area where they are stored? I think, typically, when a DVD with copy-protection is manufactured, it is sen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> Yep.  I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted >>> DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Yep.  I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted >> DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege >> of such a thing shouldn't b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: >> Photo-CD, perhaps? > > Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding > photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't lead > me anywhere.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 December 2011 22:32:07 Michael Mol wrote: > Photo-CD, perhaps? Seems likely, especially as it was made by a professional wedding photographer. What do I need to read it? The Wikipedia article doesn't lead me anywhere. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:39:38 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > The SageTv set-top box will happily play a DVD directory also (in > addition to playing TV shows recorded by the SageTv DVR server > software). Sadly, Google bought SageTv and shut them down. It's too > bad. SageTv server + set-to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > Yep. I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted > DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege > of such a thing shouldn't be used as an indication of non-existence of > such a thing. :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 December 2011 21:19:27 Michael Mol wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt wrote: > >> > On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> >> Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 December 2011 21:19:27 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt wrote: > > On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some > >> sort? > > > > I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, walt wrote: > On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> >> Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some >> sort? > > > I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its own filesystems named HFS > and HFSplus.  I'm guessing that da

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-17, David Haller wrote: > >>> Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD >>> Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen >>> TV. >>> >>> These players allow you to treat .iso file

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-17, David Haller wrote: >>Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD >>Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them on your big screen >>TV. >> >>These players allow you to treat .iso files on the network just as if >>they were actual DVDs and give you fu

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-16, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Grant Edwards> > wrote: > >> Correct. If you use dd to copy an encrypted disk, the result will be >> missing something like 90% of the data. >> >>> I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more >>> about t

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2011 03:26 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Do you know of any way to read a DVD that was created on a Mac of some sort? I'm fuzzy on the details, but Apple has/had its own filesystems named HFS and HFSplus. I'm guessing that data disks burned with a Mac will use HFS, but I don't know about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-16, 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 co

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread James
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > For archive purposes is there a simple way for me to make a > bit-for-bit copy retail DVDs I've purchased? Some time back, I was almost ready to do something big on my 1000+ dvd collection. I did a lot of research. I got stuck on the raid servers and then aband

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-16, 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

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-16, 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 > dd, can't