On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:41 PM, John Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2008 21:56:22 Nick Rout wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:15 PM, John Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 26 August 2008 20:56:34 Nick Rout wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:35 PM, John Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Tuesday 26 August 2008 15:13:36 Nick Rout wrote: >> >> >> rip it to hard drive first and then use avidemux: >> >> >> >> >> >> mplayer dvd://8 -dumpstream -dumpfile rippeddvd8.vob >> >> > >> >> > I tryed mplayer dvd://8 -dumpstream -dumpfile rippeddvd8.vob. and it >> >> > only ripped about 10 minutes of the episode >> >> >> >> a number of possibilties, >> >> >> >> damaged dvd >> >> >> >> damaged dvd drive >> >> >> >> dvd with copy protection that linux cannot handle >> >> >> >> Can you watch the episode? Best dvd player with menu support is in fact >> >> xine. >> >> >> >> try xine dvd:// >> > >> > xine works as well as kaffeine >> > >> > I was wondering about using rsync to copy the dvd to a directory. Or >> > maybe dd to create an image. But not to sure about it >> >> won't work > > I copied a Vido that I recorded from sky using rsync and that worked ok. > avidemux works really well. I like it. >
Sorry I didn't explain. I believe that an encrypted DVD might not all be copied properly with rsync. Something to do with the encryption is not part of the iso filesystem on the DVD disk, its on some special area of the disk that won't get copied with a tool like rsync, so even with libdvdcss the copy on the hard drive won't play properly. Thats my understanding anyway. There are tools to transfer to hard drive unencrypting at the same time. cpdvd and dvdbackup spring to mind. I find mplayer dvd://n --dumpstream --dumpfie titlen.vob works for me. None of fixes your babylon 5 dvd problem which may be down to some extra copy protection.
