[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).
> 
> "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.

Yeah, the docs are outdated.  I used "readcd dev=/dev/hdc f=file.iso" on
my SuSE 10.0 DVD and it worked fine.

> > 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.

OK, I haven't tried it for a long time.

> > 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!

Cool!

 - BS