On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
On a slightly different topic, my girlfriend has this problem
as well, and also wants to copy several DVDs so she can wear
out the copies rather than the originals. She bought some
commercial software, DVDx I believe, which claims to do that,
and which we tried to run under Wine. We hit some permissions
problems it looks like.
I tried downloading vobcopy, and it's been running a couple
of *days* trying to rip a two hour movie!
It should not take that long unless it is having a problem reading
the disk itself. (Too many scratches/cracks, etc...)
vobcopy errors out in that case. Something else is going on. I was
having similar problems with burning dvds where the drive would just hang.
I kernel upgrade fixed the problem.
Anyone here with experience ripping/copying DVDs using
Linux?
Not trying to give away or sell, just for personal use.
Each time a DVD gets taken out of its case, there are
microcracks and scratches. Wanna play the copies.
This is in the USA.
I have had good luck with K9copy. It has the advantage of being able
to make the copy on single layer blanks. It is basically a front end
for a bunch of other programs.
http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/
vobcopy has worked fine for me. You need libdvdcss to make it work right.
I have seen a fair amount of damaged discs. (Having a daughter will do
that...) Backups are a good preventative measure.
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