Backup a Video DVD

[Fred Roller]

Kipton Moravec wrote:
> I have been trying all day to back up a DVD on my Ubuntu 8.10 system.
>
> What I would like is a copy of the DVD that appears the same when I put
> it in the DVD player as the original.
>
> I tarted looking at Brasero and Gnome Baker but they do not do Video DVD
> only Data DVD.
>
> dvd:Rip works but I do not know what to do with the .rip file on my hard
> drive.
>
> k9copy says it can not open the DVD, even though dvd:Rip had no
> problems.
>
> Now I am playing with DVD Movie Backup on the Ubuntu 9.10 system. It
> started and showed progress, and when it stopped 15 minutes later, it
> had created a .ISO file that had 0 bytes in it.
>
> So I googled: ubuntu copy dvd to dvd
>
> Brings up dvd:Rip but 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVD::Rip
> But I still do not know what to do with the .rip file.
>
> The page has a pointer to k9copy page 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/K9Copy
>
> but I still can't get it to even open the DVD.
>
> Why is this so hard? Does anyone have step by step instructions?
>
> I have 2 DVD's that I need to backup. And I started 6 hours ago, still
> have nothing.
>
> Kip
>   
I use thogen ( sudo apt-get install thogen) for my own copy.  I watch 
the copied version and thus preserving the original DVD.  This creates a 
.ogv file which I watch on my computer.  It is straight forward but does 
not by pass all the securities out there (I can't backup some of Pixar's 
films because of the 90 some odd chapters detected).

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Fred
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"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."