[KLUG Members] Duping a DVD

[Mark Bystry]

guys,

 i have used k3b, xdvdshrink, and kdvdbackup to make copies of movie 
dvd's. k3b will only bark when it's an encrypted dvd...which most seem 
to be. xdvdshrink does everything for you while kdvdbackup writes the 
vob file to your hard drive then makes and iso file then uses k3b to 
burn them to a dvd.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2



Bruce Smith wrote the following on 11/18/2005 2:44 PM:
>>>> 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 Yeah, the docs are outdated.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
>
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