On Mar 31, 2005 4:22 AM, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > > Hi, can you make backup copies of copy protected DVDs with dvdrip? > > Of course, including menu and resizing to a single layer DVD, as some > > windows programs can do? > > Although I don't know the answer to that, however I did get DVDshrink to > work well with wine > (http://axljab.homelinux.org/DVD_to_DVD_-_DVDshrink). The ripping to ISO > takes a while though (about 1:1 for the film with my 800MHz), however > it's almost all automatic... and results are great, and all extras > (menus/audio tracks etc) are avaliable. Easy to use too. Protection can > be removed too. > > The resulting ISO is burned with growisofs to DVD. > > Greetings > Ralph > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFCS91vAWKxH5yWMT8RAnQxAKDHPtFMWGgF9J16i2kj6xXG2ANVqACfZzwW > uWVaJrYJ2onnWTC4+edZlWs= > =sPye > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > I've used 'lxdvdrip' to make backup copies of various DVD's. lxdvdrip is basically a front end to apps such as dvdauthor, dvdbackup, transcode, etc. ... It will take a dual-layer DVD and shrink it to a single-layer (or make a straight dvdbackup of a single-layer DVD).
However, I have noticed some irregularities with it. On one DVD player, the movie starts automatically and I can't get to the menu unless I fast-forward to the end of the movie. On another DVD player, the menu comes up just fine. YMMV. HTH, -Hani -- [email protected] mailing list
