[SATLUG] Creating an ISO image

[twistedpickles]

You can also create vob files with mplayer: 'mplayer -dvd-device
/media/dvdrom -dumpstream -dumpfile movieName.vob'




On 3/29/07, Jonathan Hull <masterr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I usually use vobcopy to unencrypt and dump the contents of the DVD to the
> hard drive. It's not quite and ISO, but you can then (depending on the size)
> burn this back to a DVD in data mode and it should play in most DVD players.
>
> A bit off topic here: anyone know of a good DVD-9 to DVD-5 converter? I
> usually use dvdshrink via wine but would much rather use a native app.
>
> On 3/29/07, John Pappas <j at jvpappas.net> wrote:
> >
> > I think the following should shed some light:
> >
> > http://www.debianhelp.org/node/2319
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup_a_DVD
> >
> > On 3/28/07, Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > At 7:51 PM -0500 3/28/07, Alan L. Lesmerises wrote:
> > >
> > > >  I just think about what happens if I have an encrypted file.  The
> > fact
> > > >  that it's encrypted doesn't keep you from copying it (as a binary,
> > that
> > > is)
> > > >  -- it just keeps you from opening it.  Since all I wanted to do was
> > > create
> > > >  an exact image of what was on the DVD, why can't you just copy the
> > bits
> > > >  (whatever they are, encrypted or not) just as they appear on the disk
> > > and
> > > >  burn them onto a new one exactly like they were on the original?
> > >
> > > Actually, I believe that they did precisely this at one of the
> > > DVD/CSS trials, and proved that the purpose of CSS was not to prevent
> > > piracy but was instead to prevent people from being able to read the
> > > content on their platform of choice.
> > >
> > >
> > > I agree -- it should work.  The only thing I can think of is that
> > > they might have added some copy protection that won't read via normal
> > > methods, and therefore cannot be duplicated.
> > >
> > > Kind of like the old-style method of writing data to sectors that
> > > don't officially exist anywhere on the disk, so that the application
> > > is actually looking for a specific type of error to occur at a
> > > specific time, and if that doesn't happen then it refuses to run.
> > >
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