Re: [LUG] Easiest way to backup dual-layer DVDs?

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've also got a DVD burner but to date it has been a disaster! In theory 
modified versions of cdrecord support DVD burners just like CD burners and 
you just fire approprate images at cdrecord. I'm convinced i have a media 
problem, i bought a cake of 50 DVD-R but i think the  DVD writer does not 
like them. Its a project for next week at work!

(don't mean to put you off!)

As for the video are the different sections/chapters of the DVD normaly in 
different physical files on the disk anyway and the dvd player attempts to 
seamlessly play them togher (you sometimes get a glitch at change over) so 
you may be able to just rip the vob files and then just burn them back as 2 
video dvds otherwise you will need to to a complete rip but there should be 
no need to run the files through a compressor. But you may as well remove 
macrovision at the same time, i have a situation where I would have routed by 
DVD player through the scart in my video to save me buying a switch box but i 
can't because macrovision stops me!.

Robin


On Sunday 22 February 2004 15:17, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> I've bought a DVD burner :-)  Should turn up next week sometime.
>
> I've been surfing around trying to get my head around how to set
> everything up, but I'm afraid I've been failing due to my limited number
> of active brain cells :-(  Linux support for burning data DVDs seems to
> be nice n' easy, which is the primary objective, but I've been wondering
> whether I can back up my DVD movies too.
>
> All I want to do is:
> *  Read the DVD onto the hard disk
> *  Burn it back onto DVD

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