On 2009-05-16, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 16 May 2009, at 16:56, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-05-16, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Why don't you use the (very old, but still effective) dd [1] >>>>> command to create an ISO image? >>>> ... >> I've tried it numerous times, and it's never worked for me. >> >>> It WILL make an exact copy of the DVD onto the drive (assuming DVD >>> video, and no ARccOS [1]), it will just be an exact copy of the >>> *encrypted* movie. >> >> It's never worked for me. I only get a fraction of the disk's >> content followed by a lot of read/seek errors. > > That tends to indicate that you're using newer > ARccOS-protected DVDs. I have few of these & very many more > that are more than 5 years old. In this case I think you may > have some success ripping using a newer SVN of mplayer (and > the newer versions of dvdread dvdlib (??) which have been > patched by the mplayer developers).
Yup. They've always worked fine with k9copy and xine (which use libdvdread/libdvdcss/?). -- Grant
