On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 00:09 +0000, Andrew Morgan wrote: > I haven't used a GUI to do this, but I have done it for a lot of DVDs*. > Whatever method you use you will need to install libdvdcss2 on your > machine, so it can decrypt the DVD. In Ubuntu, which is what I tend to > use, this isn't simply a package. Installation instructions are here: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs > It appears there are only two steps required to install it. > > What I would do is: > > Install 'libdvdcss2'. > Install 'vobcopy'. > Open a terminal and type: > cd /path/to/USB/stick/ > vobcopy -m > > This will create an unencrypted copy of the DVD in whichever directory > you changed to. This does no transcoding or anything, it simply creates > a VIDEO_TS structure. It will be the same size as the original, and dual > layer DVDs can I believe be up to around 8.7 GB. I don't know of any GUI > way to do it, but I don't think those commands are too difficult. :) > 'vobcopy -m' will create a directory named the same as the name of the > DVD, which sounds great except that a lot of DVDs aren't named very well > at all. “DVDVolume” is quite common. I've even got a couple of TV > series' where three of the four discs are named with a common format, > and one isn't. > > * I have also travelled outside of the UK to places where copying a DVD > for personal use is not illegal. > > -- > How long would you expect this to take? I have aborted a copy of a DVD because it has already taken over 3 hours and is still only partially complete.
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