[KLUG Members] Duping a DVD

[Bruce Smith]

> What is the best way to dup a DVD?  Just copying the files that appear in
> nautilus to another DVD doesn't appear to work.

I think "k3b" has an option to copy a DVD, but I've never tried it on a
video DVD (only data).

> Right now I'm reading it via "dd if=/dev/hdc of=bigjoe.dvd bs=512".  Then I drop
> that file on there with cdrecord?  Do I need any special options?  I haven't
> fiddled with DVDs much.

I use the "readcd" command to extract an ISO image from a data DVD/CD
(part of the cdrecord RPM).  I don't think "dd" does it correctly.

There is a "dvdauthor" package for creating video DVD's from the files
you see in nautilus, but I've heard it's kind of a pain.  I've never
tried it.

 - BS