On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:37:02PM -0500, vineyard saker wrote: > Second - please bear with me, I am a DVD-issue newbie & ignoramous, > but I need some help. > [big snip] > 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) > > ==>>Also - how can I 'rip' a DVD into an mpeg or avi file?<<== >
Hello Vinyard, I'm new to the DVD issue too, but I'll try. I don't see how a 6.9 GB data stream (movie, whatever) can fit on a 4.7 GB media. What type of media is it that someone else has created that can be read on your DVD player? Watch the + and -, SL and DL, R and RW as each is different from the drive's perspective; noting I hope your typo above re your drive handling "both DVD+R(DL) and DVD+R(DL)". As far as 'ripping' a DVD into an mpeg, have you looked at VLC? I haven't tried the text-mode component but it may do what you need. I'm using Etch amd64 and the CSS magic lib is not available yet so I can't watch DVDs. Soon I hope. Good luck, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
