Hi everybody,
First happy new year to all!
Second - please bear with me, I am a DVD-issue newbie & ignoramous,
but I need some help.
I am DESPERATELY trying to copy encrypted commercial DVDs but nothing
works. Programs such as k9copy or k3b get cold feet with encrypted
DVD so I decided to use the very good and simple CLI tools dvdbackup
and growisofs. This is what I did:
First I make an image of the source DVD with:
dvdbackup -i /media/hdc/ -M -o /home/vees/DVDBackups/ -n NameOfTheBackupedDVD
And that works great.
Then I tried burning the image to a DVD+RW with:
growisofs -Z /dev/scd1 -dvd-video
/home/vees/DVDBackups/NameOfTheBackupedDVD/
This worked great too, as long as I copied small DVDs, less than the
4.7GB of a typical DVD+RW. When I tried with a bigger DVD, the first
part worked, but the burning did not. Here is the error message I
got:
:-( /dev/scd1: 2295104 blocks are free, 3589847 to be written!
I tried overburning with the -overburn flag, but each time I got the
same input/output error several times. Here are two examples:
63.93% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 29 21:19:15 2006
:-? the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=230540h, keep retrying in 23ms
:-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=63h/ACQ=00h]:
Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error
/dev/scd1: flushing cache
/dev/scd1: writing lead-out
63.79% done, estimate finish Sat Dec 30 10:55:15 2006
63.93% done, estimate finish Sat Dec 30 10:55:15 2006
:-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=63h/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error
/dev/scd1: flushing cache
/dev/scd1: writing lead-out
I turns out that I needed either a Dual Layer DVD+R (DL) or a Double
Layer DVD-R(DL) which each have 8.5GB of space (This is the first
time I had heard of such double-layer DVDs)
Today I bought three DVD+R(DL) and all went perfectly until I stuck
the DVD into my regular (living room) DVD player which could not read
it! I tried on my computer with mplayer and it could read it with no
problem whatsoever so the DVD itself is not at fault. I can only
conclude that some DVD players do not play DVD+R(DL).
Except. Except that I was given several copied DVD by friends which
my DVD player *did* play. Which brings me to the only logical
conclusion: there must be a way to "squeeze", for example, a 6.9GB
movie into a "regular" 4.7GB DVD+RW. (This is what the software of
my windoze-using friends seemed to have done.)
HOW DO I DO THIS WITH DEBIAN?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
Also - the computer I work on is an ancient 300MHz machine without
soundcard (too old) so there is no way for me to "check" a DVD on it.
I can run it on anther computer (using a live-CD of BSD with mplayer)
or I can try the living room DVD player attached to my TV. This is
the reality of not being rich and I cannot afford anything better. In
any case, I do believe that dvdbackup and growisofs do not care about
encryption in the least and they simply copy byte-by-byte regardless
of what it is they are copying (yet another reason to use them instead
of a GUI copying program).
My burner is not the problem. It can handle both DVD+R(DL) and
DVD+R(DL). Just in case, here is some info about my Maddog MegaSTOR
18X Triple-Format DVD-RW DVD burner (which supports Double Layer
DVD+R/DL and Dual Layer DVD-R/DL at 8x)
dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/scd1
INQUIRY: [TSSTcorp][CD/DVDW SH-S182D][SB00]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
Mounted Media: 1Ah, DVD+RW
Current Write Speed: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s
Write Speed #0: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s
Write Speed #1: 2.0x1385=2770KB/s
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
Write Performance: 4.0x1385=5540KB/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> 2295104]
Speed Descriptor#0: 00/2295103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=5540KB/s
Speed Descriptor#1: 00/2295103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s
Speed Descriptor#2: 00/2295103 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s [EMAIL PROTECTED]/s
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
Media Book Type: 00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0]
Media ID: MKM/A02
Legacy lead-out at: 2295104*2KB=4700372992
READ DISC INFORMATION:
Disc status: complete
Number of Sessions: 1
State of Last Session: complete
Number of Tracks: 1
BG Format Status: complete
READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:
formatted: 2295104*2048=4700372992
26h(0): 2295104*2048=4700372992
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
Track State: complete
Track Start Address: 0*2KB
Free Blocks: 0*2KB
Track Size: 2295104*2KB
FABRICATED TOC:
Track#1 : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Track#AA : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multi-session Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
READ CAPACITY: 2295104*2048=4700372992
Many thanks in advance for any pointers on how I can FINLLAY copy my DVDs!!!!
==>>Also - how can I 'rip' a DVD into an mpeg or avi file?<<==
Kind regards & may thanks in advance!
VS
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