Backup a Video DVD

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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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

I'm not familiar with the above, but k3b (Tools > Copy DVD) is painless.
Or `dd if=/dev/<yourdvddrive> of=fileondisk.iso`.

Sarunas

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