On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:34:46 +0200 "Geert Stichelmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > For six months now, I'm 100% M$-free on my home machine, and would like > to stay that way. > Now, I just bought a Sony DVD RW-U10A, DVD+/-RW and installed it in > mandrake 9.1. > Reading CDROM, writing CD-R, CD-RW (using k3b), playing video DVD's > (using mplayer)..., all works perfect. > > But now I wanna try to copy a DVD. Is there DVD-copy software available > for linux? > Anyone has experience with copying DVD's under linux? Although I have never actually burnt a DVD in my life I do know a couple of things. Firstly, cdrecord can burn DVD's, thus can most GUI's that are still in development. But, and please note this: your DVD writer cannot burn 1:1 coppies of most film DVD's you buy from the shop. The reason for this is simple. DVD's sold with films have a capacity of well over 6 Gigs, and mostly they are filled over the 6 Gigs, not because the extras are neccissary, or even because "the client is king and wants to see it", but purely because the DVD's you can buy (blank) and burn are limited to I believe 4.3 Gigs. So, to put it simple, you can buy 1.4MB floppes with software, but if you want blank ones, you can only write onto 712KB floppies ;-) What I'm trying to say here is commercial DVD's are specificly produced over the limit of blank DVD's to prevent coppying. The encryption technique has been broken / hacked, and they did know this was bound to happen. If someone makes it, someone will break it. But it's impossible to fit 6 gigs onto 4, that's a fact, unless you start editing the origional DVD cutting out extras, remaking the "toc" and menu system if wanted to run in a commercial DVD player. It is possible, no doubt about that, but it's not easy from what I know. Actually, I read an interesting article about someone who actually took the time and effort to try this, and wrote a detailed description of everything they encountered along the way. He concluded that for single copy of a DVD, he would far rather just buy the origional. It was woth the money (just), but definitely not the full day he was busy with it. Actually in this specific case, he was cheaper buying the origional, as he messed up 2 blanks while trying to get it right. So why are there illegal DVD's around, which have been coppied? Well, because someone takes the time to carefully do all this shit, but not for one copy, but for hundreds. Then, and only really then does it become worth-while. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that, if you bought this DVD writer for the sole purpose of coppying easily DVD's, you were far mislead, as many are. DVD's seem only handy for backups really. This would be for me the only reason why I would ever maybe buy one at it's current restriction. > What I'm really looking for is an easy way (gui or command line) to > create an image of a dvd-disc, put it on my harddisk, and burn it on a > DVD+R or DVD-R. Explained above ;-) I hope this may clear up some facts here. Although you probably should not quote me exactly, what I have written here is fact to a point. Just check yourself. The DVD's you have (blanks) are 4.x Gigs, right. Mount a DVD, and do `df -h` ... unless it's either a documentary where they weren't bothered, or a b-rated film, chances are it's above 6 Gigs. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ "...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux"
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