DVD Ripping

Originally Posted by scottro

I believe that doesn't work on video type DVDs, only data DVDs. (I could easily be wrong about that, but I'm fairly sure that I'm correct, and it's far too late to google and confirm or correct. myself.)

Good news, I was able to rip a new style video DVD to a .iso image with dd and was also able to play the .iso with VLC This sure keeps it K.I.S.S.

It was pretty simple to rip. Just put in the DVD wait for gnome or whatever to ask you what you want to do with it and hit cancel. Then unmount the DVD by right click and select unmount. Then open a terminal and

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/location/DVDname.iso

You may have to change the sr0 to whatever you DVD player is.

[scottro]

Interesting. Handy to know. What do you mean by new style DVD?

I use dvdbackup_lxdvdrip (others use vobcopy). This will create a directory, say MyDisc with two subdirectoris, Audio_TS and Video_TS. If I want to burn a copy of it, I then use the excellent tovid suite. (This is in CentOS, not Fedora, and in CentOS, I've never gotten their GUI working, which is fine actually, the command line uses fewer resources. Tovid is a series of scripts, primarily designed to take an avi or similar and turn it into a DVD. Once I have that directory, I can burn it with makedvd, which is also simply a script using growisofs.

The next test, if you're bored, is to see if the iso that you created wll burn to a properly working DVD. (This is going to be a busy, honey do--as in Honey, do this, Honey do that--weekend for me.)

Thanks for posting that though.

AHH--a wee bit of googling indicates that this works for unencrypted DVDs. It may not work for encrypted, which, I suppose in theory, you're breaking the law if you copy them. Not sure about the law as far as making a backup for personal use, though (insert political comment here, depending upon your country) here in the US, I suspect it's illegal.

Further googling indicates that it sometimes does work, even if encrypted. Ah well,

Regardless, dvdbackup, or dvdbackup_lxdvdrip work well for me. I haven't mentioned them in this thread because the OP mentioned he didn't want to go hunting for various dependencies and I'm not sure what's in the Fedora repos (as my powerful machine, which is what I use for things like this, runs CentOS.)

Lastly, all posts I found with fairly cursory googling were over a year old.

[kurgan]

I would have thought that most everyone would know by now that there are certain requirements when attempting to create backups of encrypted dvd's. The dd command will work fine on non encrypted dvd's. If you want to back up encrypted dvd's with linux you are going to have to have some libdvd* tools only found in certain repositories. I have also used this method for backing up dvd's from the command line (given the proper repositories):

# yum -y install libdvd* ddrescue lsdvd

I like to use ddrescue because it does a little bit better job with recovering from errors during copy (especially if the dvd is a little scratched).

(insert dvd)

# lsdvd /dev/dvd (change to your device of course)
# ddrescue /dev/dvd filename_of_movie.iso

[James Board]

I tried k9copy, but it created a separate mpg file for each chapter in the movie. I stopped it at 20 chapters. Who wants to restart the media player 20 times when playing a single movie?

Anyway, it turns out that my media player doesn't fully support VOB files, so I'll probably have to transcode to another format.

Hello all,
I should have wrote a new release DVD, as in just bought from the store yesterday of a new release. I didn't check if it was encrypted I just assumed it was. With dd doing a bit for bit or block for block type copy I wouldn't think it would matter if the DVD was encrypted or not as long as the drive can read it, but I could be wrong. The iso ended up being 5.8GB and I only have 4.7GB DVD's so I didn't try to compress and burn the iso, but would think if you had a iso that would fit on a disk you could burn it by doing something like

dd if=/location/DVD.iso of=/dev/sr0

to burn a iso to DVD, of course you may have to change sr0 to what your DVD drive really is.

I have burnt disks with commands like this in the past, but can't remember if I have done this with a DVD or not.

Best of luck
Ky

[biggsk]

I agree with 'bob'. K3b is my choice.

[kurgan]

Originally Posted by James Board

I tried k9copy, but it created a separate mpg file for each chapter in the movie. I stopped it at 20 chapters. Who wants to restart the media player 20 times when playing a single movie?

Anyway, it turns out that my media player doesn't fully support VOB files, so I'll probably have to transcode to another format.

You're doing it wrong. You can select the output to .iso, then just click the Copy button.

Opps, I had thought she bought the DVD but it is a rental from one of the big rental stores, of course I have overwritten the iso image I made of it. I really am amazed by the power of dd.

[coffee412]

If its any help to you I have some tools that I wrote in bash to do ripping and posting of videos. They are on my personal website at http://parkit.dyndns.org in the download section.

coffee