Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 03/12/06, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
> On 2006-12-03, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I've never used K3B myself, but its site is not clear whether it
> > handles the DeCSS part of the DVD rip.
>
> I've never used K3B either.  If I want to make an exact
> (decrypted, dereionalize) copy, I just do this:
>
> $ dvdbackup -M -i /dev/sr0 -o dvds
> <remove original DVD, replace with blank double-layer>
> $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0 -dvd-video dvds/<TITLENAME>
>
> > CSS is the system used to region-restrict DVDs, and AFAICT it
> > works by encrypting the files on the disk against a key stored
> > in a special part of the DVD's header. This "header" part of
> > the DVD is not writable by normal DVD-burners (I have heard
> > that "authoring" DVD- burners which support it cost several
> > thousand pounds), so a "bitwise" copy of a DVD cannot be
> > decrypted (because the key is missing).
> >
> > As I understand it, in order to copy DVD movies one must first
> > make a copy of the DVD's files - with the region-encoding
> > removed - onto hard-disk, then burn this as a new DVD
> > "compilation". The result is an R0 disk which should play fine
> > in any standard player.
>
> Exactly.  The dvdbackup/growisofs method works fine for making
> same-size copies.

This is getting me down: <sigh . . .>
=================================
$ dvdbackup -M -i /dev/dvd -o dvds
$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video dvds/PIRATESOFTHECARIBBEAN
Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video dvds/PIRATESOFTHECARIBBEAN | builtin_dd
of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
  0.14% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 21:55:10 2006
  0.29% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 21:55:10 2006
  0.43% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 21:55:10 2006
/dev/dvd: splitting layers at 1750000 blocks
/dev/dvd: "Current Write Speed" is 2.5x1385KBps.
  0.57% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:27:14 2006
  0.71% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:27:48 2006
  0.86% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:28:12 2006
  1.00% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:30:09 2006
  1.14% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:30:09 2006
[snip...]

 49.86% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:32:08 2006
 50.00% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:32:07 2006
 50.14% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:32:07 2006
 50.29% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:32:11 2006
 50.43% done, estimate finish Sun Dec  3 22:32:10 2006
:-[ WRITE@LBA=1abe70h failed with SK=3h/ASC=0Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error
:-( write failed: Input/output error
=================================

This must be the third wasted DL DVD.  I think that I will need to
concentrate on transcoding the darn thing from now on.  I wish I could
pin point the problem.  When I tried playing the DVD in M$Windows it
complained about the region not being set - but I didn't have any such
problem in Linux.  Nero express won't even see the DL disk, just shows
the size of CD.  Could it be something to do with the firmware?
-- 
Regards,
Mick
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