On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Out of curiosity I thought I'd try to copy files from a movie DVD to my > hard drive. When I tried to copy some of the .vob files, I got a > message that said something like input/output error, and nothing would > copy. This isn't real important to me, and I'm mostly simply curious, > but is it possible to copy files using cp from a mounted dvd? I had > thought they should be able to be copied, but now wonder if there is > some sort of hardware block that prevents this (my dvd reader is old) or > if there was some trick I didn't know. Thanks, > > Ric
if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob files themselves, mencoder can copy the streams into an avi file: mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o foo.avi this will also decrypt them. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
