On 11 Aug 2009, at 08:50, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
Now I've got this new machine with all this space on it (or rather:
now I seem to be more interested in doing stuff with this machine I
built a while ago), I'm starting on the process of ripping all my
DVDs.
In the past I tried media-video/undvd for DVD ripping, but its .mp4
support now is broken, and probably won't be fixed.
This week I've been trying HandBrakeCLI, and it seems to work pretty
darn lovely.
You cannot simply clone a DVD with dd.
Did you read the cloning.txt I attached to my previous (second) message?
Initially running `dd` on the disk doesn't work.
Then I open the disk with a DVD reading script (scandvd - it calls
mplayer, I think).
Then running `dd` on the disk produces an 8gb file which is readable
by mplayer (using libdvdread / libdvdcss).
If you carefully read the cloning.txt I previously attached you will
see I run mplayer using the argument "-dvd-device disc.iso". The
screenshot I produced by that command is at <http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/dd.dvd.screenshot.png
>
I am NOT trying to clone a movie from a commerical DVD to DVD-R in
this way. I am merely trying to "clone" a copy of the disk onto my
hard-drive as a single file. I am sorry if my language has been
unclear, but the cloning.txt console log quite readable. I am not,
incidentally, faking these results.
I'm just really curious why `dd` works perfectly fine the last time,
but not the first.
1) Use dvdcopy with deCSS and create a copied directory tree.
Make sure to retain kapital letters in filenames.
2) Use mkisofs -dvd-video to create a new ifs image
3) Use cdrecord -atip tp read the layerbreak
4) Use cdrecord -dao -v driveropts=layerbreak=# xxx.iso
to write the data to a DVD+R/DL
These instructions may be useful in the future. I'm afraid that I do
find burning to somewhat elude my understanding when it comes to
dealing with the layerbreak. However right now I don't want to burn to
disk - only to grab an image of the disk for ripping to file.mp4 type
movie files.
Stroller.
