Backup a Video DVD

[Graham Todd]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:22:22 -0500
Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> uttered these words:

> I do not know what k3b is, but the command line version looks the
> simplest
[snipped]

You're obviously a Gnome user 8-)

K3b is the standard CD/DVD burning tool for the KDE desktop, and k9copy
is also a KDE program.

Unless there is some encryption on the commercial DVD, k9copy is an
essential tool.  It reduces by compression the total extent of DVD,
which is usually 9Gb to 5Gb, a size which will fit on most data DVDs.
K9copy saves the compressed file on your hard disk, and should then be
copiable to a data DVD by K3b.  Of course, before you start you should
have libdvdcss2 installed to overide the location codes.

By doing so, you will surely break the agreement you enter into not to
copy a DVD or not show it on oil platforms, etc., and my advice to use
libdvdcss2 should be taken as advice to use it if you want K9copy to
work.  I myself use Brasero and Gnomebaker (I too use Ubuntu) with
K9copy.  One last tool I'd recommend (and this converts between various
video and audio formats is ffmpeg.  The documentation for it is at:

http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html

But you might be better off burning a live-cd of dyne:bolic just for
video and DVD creation/copying:

http://dynebolic.org/


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Graham Todd
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