Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} app to create DVD image?

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 27 Oct 2009, at 10:16, KH wrote:

> Grant schrieb:
>>>> Does anyone know of an app that will create a DVD image that can be
>>>> burned to a DVD for playback on a regular home DVD player?
> ...
> if you want to have an iso of an dvd you can use dd to do so. For a  
> reason I don't understand you will have to run mplayer first for a  
> second or so.
> (For me this works fine as long as the sources isn't bigger than  
> 4,7GB)

I think you can only "properly" use `dd` if the DVD is region 0.
Are you sure that mplayer is needed in that case?

If the DVD is regionalised, then running mplayer will allow you to  
clone it to hard-drive, but I don't think that image will then be  
burnable. At least, not to play on a regular household DVD player -  
the image will still carry some CSS encryption.

I use this method regularly to clone DVDs to hard-drive for ripping to  
MP4. But during that ripping process mencoder does some decryption  
transparently.

This is discussed in August's long thread "Cloning movie DVDs with dd  
- only works after accessing disk with another command?".

Stroller.