Backup a Video DVD

[Shahar Dag]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kipton Moravec" <kip at kdream.com>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:50 PM
Subject: Backup a Video DVD


>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
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Video DVD are dual layer, so you must have dual layer DVD burner & media to 
copy video DVD
(or you will have to reduce quality, remove sound tracks in un-wanted 
languages,...)
but I can't help you on Linux
(on Windows it will be cloneDVD)