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What's the state of the art in linux DVD movie backups?

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foxx

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Nov 27, 2006, 11:36:06 AM11/27/06
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Last time I looked was a couple of years ago, and it needed a whole
50-page instruction book about toi run a bunch of command line tools...
then there was a GUI that wasn't quite ready... could anyone tell me
what the state of the art is? Do we have anything like the win32
tools that just let you put the movie DVD in and click "go" and make a
copy?

(I am still on FC3 so I'm a little behind the times here.)

snd...@gmail.com

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Nov 27, 2006, 12:46:29 PM11/27/06
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1. Boot up wife's windows box
2. pop dvd in
3. fire dvd shrink, anydvd or whatever
4. open disk, backup
5. when the tray pops open insert dvd media
6. forget about the whole thing

Alternatively you can waste a day or two pulling all the command line
tools for linux.

Grant Edwards

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Nov 27, 2006, 1:07:43 PM11/27/06
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On 2006-11-27, foxx <charl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Last time I looked was a couple of years ago, and it needed a whole
> 50-page instruction book about toi run a bunch of command line tools...
> then there was a GUI that wasn't quite ready... could anyone tell me
> what the state of the art is?

dvdbackup

http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/download.shtml

> Do we have anything like the win32 tools that just let you put
> the movie DVD in and click "go" and make a copy?

Sheesh, it's a signle command. If you really need a GUI so you
can click "go" instead of typing a command, I'll toss one
together for $25.

I accept non-credit-card PayPal payments.

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Baho Utot

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Nov 27, 2006, 6:15:49 PM11/27/06
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k9copy

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foxx

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Nov 28, 2006, 3:44:32 AM11/28/06
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Thanks for the links -- could you tell me how these programs handle
shrinking though? (Last time I tried this I ended up with an 8Gb file
on my HD, that wouldn't fit on a new DVD, and then a whole load of
other cmd line programs were needed to resize it.) Do dvdbackup and
k9copy do this automatically now (just looked at the dvdbackup docs,
there's not much there yet).

thanks
c

Grant Edwards

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Nov 28, 2006, 10:21:18 AM11/28/06
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On 2006-11-28, foxx <charl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the links -- could you tell me how these programs
> handle shrinking though?

dvdbackup doesn't throw out any data (do any shrinking). It
creates an identical* copy. That's the generaly accepted
meaning of "backup".

> (Last time I tried this I ended up with an 8Gb file on my HD,
> that wouldn't fit on a new DVD, and then a whole load of other
> cmd line programs were needed to resize it.)

> Do dvdbackup and k9copy do this automatically now (just looked
> at the dvdbackup docs, there's not much there yet).

I don't know about k9copy, but dvdbackup doesn't. It creates
an identical* backup copy. Hence the name of the program: "dvd
backup". If you're going to throw away bits, it's hardly a
"backup" is it?

[*] The backup copy is unencrypted.

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Florian Diesch

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Nov 28, 2006, 11:11:49 AM11/28/06
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"foxx" <charl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Last time I looked was a couple of years ago, and it needed a whole
> 50-page instruction book about toi run a bunch of command line tools...
> then there was a GUI that wasn't quite ready... could anyone tell me
> what the state of the art is? Do we have anything like the win32
> tools that just let you put the movie DVD in and click "go" and make a
> copy?

k9copy is a nice KDE program to copy movie DVDs.


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spi...@freenet.co.uk

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Nov 30, 2006, 6:09:10 AM11/30/06
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Florian Diesch <die...@spamfence.net> did eloquently scribble:
> "foxx" <charl...@gmail.com> wrote:

dvd:rip
rather nice, it can do a direct rip, or convert to various file formats.
(it's a front end to transcode)
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Florian Diesch

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Nov 29, 2006, 1:53:17 PM11/29/06
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"foxx" <charl...@gmail.com> wrote:

k9copy does shrinking. It lets you select multiple subtitles, video and
audio tracks and can copy menus too.


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Florian Diesch

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Nov 30, 2006, 1:38:22 PM11/30/06
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spi...@freenet.co.uk wrote:

> Florian Diesch <die...@spamfence.net> did eloquently scribble:
>> "foxx" <charl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Last time I looked was a couple of years ago, and it needed a whole
>>> 50-page instruction book about toi run a bunch of command line tools...
>>> then there was a GUI that wasn't quite ready... could anyone tell me
>>> what the state of the art is? Do we have anything like the win32
>>> tools that just let you put the movie DVD in and click "go" and make a
>>> copy?
>
>> k9copy is a nice KDE program to copy movie DVDs.
>
> dvd:rip
> rather nice, it can do a direct rip, or convert to various file formats.

But it can't write video DVDs


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