[LUGSB] Copying DVDs

[Tom Rothamel]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Charles P. Wright wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to copy video DVD on Linux?  I'm not
> interesting in CSSed DVDs, just a normal DVD with no encryption.

If it's a DVD that's smaller than the size of the destination disc,
it's easy. I use the following:

cat /dev/sr0 > dvd.iso
growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=dvd.iso
 
> If I can do this, DVD beats VHS for wedding videography. :)
> 
> Has anyone had experience copying VHS to DVD?

A friend of mine and I did it once. The hard part is getting the VHS
video in, and ensuring that it's in the right format for the DVD
player. It's made harder if you have a low-end system and a lousy
capture card.

Once that's there, one can use dvdauthor (dvdauthor.sf.net) to master
the dvd, easy.

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From: dpanzell <dpanzell at ic.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: [LUGSB] Copying DVDs
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I believe the newest version of K3B (0.10 i think) supports some dvd
burning...maybe check it out.

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 12:04, Tom Rothamel wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Charles P. Wright wrote:
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to copy video DVD on Linux?  I'm not
> > interesting in CSSed DVDs, just a normal DVD with no encryption.
> 
> If it's a DVD that's smaller than the size of the destination disc,
> it's easy. I use the following:
> 
> cat /dev/sr0 > dvd.iso
> growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=dvd.iso
>  
> > If I can do this, DVD beats VHS for wedding videography. :)
> > 
> > Has anyone had experience copying VHS to DVD?
> 
> A friend of mine and I did it once. The hard part is getting the VHS
> video in, and ensuring that it's in the right format for the DVD
> player. It's made harder if you have a low-end system and a lousy
> capture card.
> 
> Once that's there, one can use dvdauthor (dvdauthor.sf.net) to master
> the dvd, easy.