[KLUG Members] Duping a DVD

[adam at morrison-ind.com]

>> 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).

"readcd dev=device [options]" like cdrecord.

How do you target and IDE CD/DVD burner?  cdrecord -scanbus says I don't have
any devices installed.

> I don't think "dd" does it correctly.

Hmmm, I copy CDs to ISOs with dd all the time.  It doesn't work if you don't
"bs=512", I know that.

> 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.

I renamed the file to bigjoe.iso, and right clicked to "Burn to CD" in 
nautilus.
It plays!