Tried to copy an unprotected DVD (amateur video from a friend of ours with a performance of Claudia and other dancers) – it took a crazy amount of time.
The correct solution was found by some friends on #emacs:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=nagma.iso bs=2048
This creates the ISO image. I found out that the DVD can be mounted as a CD, and the .vob files in the video_ts directory can be played without problems. Just copying the video_ts directory on a new DVD doesn’t work, however. The above command line copies all the bytes from the DVD to the ISO image, so the sectors and all that should be correct, too.
Test it:
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 \
/mnt/media/nagma/nagma.iso /mnt/hd
Now the content of the ISO file should be available in _mnt_hd (assuming that this mount-point exists).
Burn it:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/mnt/media/nagma/nagma.iso
Like the manual says:
To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso
where image.iso represents an arbitrary object in the filesystem, such as
file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and command name
is not intuitive in this context.
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Do we get to see anything of that video?
– V 2004-12-15 13:49 UTC
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I don’t think so. :D Wastes too much bandwidth!
I uploaded some images of Claudia dancing at a concert instead. Pictures done by Hans Gräppi (Tree Productions).
– Alex Schroeder 2004-12-16 18:05 UTC
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She looks oh-so-pretty.
– V 2004-12-20 15:17 UTC