Re: [ILUG-BOM] DVD raw copy

On Sunday 05 December 2010 12:17:47 Shamit Verma wrote:

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cat /dev/hda >/iso/rippeddvd.iso

/dev/hda is the cdrom's physical connection.

Then burn rippeddvd.iso to a dvd using K3B or the default Ubuntu dvd app, brassero, or mkisofs.

This would not work with DVDs that are encrypted and Use Ripguard or any other copy protection.

If you do a bit--by-bit copy by reading underlying device and create ISO, it will fail with hardware read errors.

You can rent any of recent Disney DVDs to test that. Due to legal reasons, none of major distros ship with code to decrypt such DVDs. You have to install it yourself.

Works for me. I have libdvdcss2 installed.