vobcopy on breezy

[Jim McQuiston]

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'Forum Post wrote:
> vobcopy in Breezy/Gnome - first time I've ever used it - made perfect
> copy of a 4.0GB DVD5 music video (Free-All Regions) today in under
> twenty minutes on a HP notebook. Yes, I know the thread's stale but
> this may help other newbies too.
> 
> 
> 
> vobcopy ignored my attempt to write output to an external FireWire
> Seagate disk and dumped a 2.0GB or smaller *1-1.VOB then a *1-2.VOB
> chunk onto my measly internal notebook IDE drive 8.0GB partition. In
> terminal I'd typed
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Code:
> --------------------
>     vobcopy /media/cdrom1 /media/SEAGATE
> --------------------
> 
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> 
> which vobcopy seemed to interpret as input path from /dev/scd0
> (external USB 2.0 Plextor DVD Recorder) so wonder if I'd used output to
> /dev/sdb1 (vfat/FAT32, first primary partition on external disk) perhaps
> it would have been more successful to avoid a subsequent copy IDE to
> external drive.
> 
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> 
> Perhaps someone in the forum can help wih the correct vobcopy command
> layout (source, destination) as man doesn't help at all.
> 
> 
> 
> Final question, now I've got two isolated VOB files on a hard drive
> what can I do with them, for example how do I burn them in an image
> file? Of course wine/DVD Shrink says missing VIDEO_TS.IFO so that's no
> good, then K3b throws a similar message if try to burn an image as a
> new DVD Project with just two VOBs. Feel a bit lost having always run
> DVD Decrypter/DVD Shrink in Windows with no problem, and I want to
> master this in Linux.
> 
> 
You might consider K9copy, which can be found at http://k9copy.free.fr/

I compiled it from source with on an AMD64 machine running Kubuntu 5.10.
It works very well.

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 Jim McQuiston

Registered Linux User #375957
 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S.Thompson
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