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- tyme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6konspence: not everyone who reads digg knows how linux works...if people keep presenting linux in this divided manner ("for ubuntu", "for fedora") it will hurt linux.
- CLucas916, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I know the title of the page is called "How To: Back up your DVDs in Ubuntu". But dont let that fool you, this can work on any distrobution. You just need to make sure all the packages needed are installed.
- nograz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5DVD Shrink under Wine still is the best way to backup DVDs.
There are a few great programs, like dvdbackup or vobcopy that work in the shell enviroment and DVD::rip and a few others that are GUI based. All of which work and are easy to use, but again, DVD Shrink under Wine still is the best. - konspence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Barbobot, in your case the best way is mencoder. It can encode to Xvid and such, almost any codec, and there are many guides on how to rip dvds using it that are easily found using Google. I have successfully backed up many dvd's using it. Are they CSS encrypted or not? :-P not telling.
- konspence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not to be mean, but that is general knowledge to anybody who knows how Linux works ;-)
- barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The best? what about for systems that don't have X windows installed?
- linuxrebel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2konspence, clucas916 and tyme are right. So many of the new Ubuntu users are amazed at what they can do in Ubuntu easily. What they don't understand is that Linux is a kernel, and any distribution can do what any other one can IF all the needed software/packages/rpms/debs (name as you will) are installed. I spent years throwing resumes in the trash that said things like "Know Linux 7.2 and 7.3" Remarkable seeing as how Linux was then at 2.2 and 2.4 for the most part.
On the other hand the shear fun so many of the new users are having is cool to watch. However sometimes you do need to remind them to breath. - harrisbradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm there with warble... it *should* be easy; or at least a lot easier. (for a way to burn mpgs/avi/mov to DVD's under linux)
- nograz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dvdbackup or vobcopy is great if you didn't have a X system loaded.
- warble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2DVD Shrink is much better it seems.
I'm still looking for a way to burn mpgs/avi/mov to DVD's under linux. I can copy all day long with DVD shrink, but make my own? You'd think this would be easy, but all the howto's seem to be about 400 instructions and about 2 hours in front of the command line to make a DVD ISO file..
seems silly. - xiangxianni, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1My god,I find this tool for very long time.I will remark it to my blog.
http://www.tips5.com - linuxrebel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or you could do it the really easy way.
dd if=/media/cdrom of=/home/[username]/[file name you want].iso
then if you want to "play" the dvd
mkdir [somename]
mount -o loop [file name you want].iso [somename]
cd [somename]
and you are in. use whatever you prefer to then burn this iso to a blank DVD it you want to make a copy. - pavelich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 cool, i have been waiting for an easy way to do this in ubuntu, although i must say i havent really looked, but useful nonetheless
- dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im happy with lxdvdrip
- LabThug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm surprised only one other person has talked about lxdvdrip (http://directory.fsf.org/all/lxdvdrip.html). It's simple: 1) Insert DVD 2) type `lxdvdrip` on a command prompt 3) Follow instructions (basically, 'press enter to preview' and 'press enter when the blank dvd is in the drive'). It also doesn't require X to run. True, it offers mplayer as a way to ensure your home movies have been successfully ripped, but you don't *have* to preview them (besides, they are home movies, my grandparents don't mind seeing choppy vids of their great-grandkids).
- mointrigue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know. I'm using the Gentoo package of XDVDShrink and the DVDShrink script and it works just fine for me.
- santaclaws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, however there are quirks on different systems which make it easier to just say "this works on distribution a" when writing scripts. E.g., df, which I use to calculate sizes, has different output on RPM based systems that it does on DEB based; this makes it hard to write the awk parsing, and yet keep it readable.
I also think that some convergence in distros is a good thing; I think part of the Linux's problem *is* the specialization that has resulted in hundreds of alternatives. Better to get a great distribution which satisfies nearly everybody than to constantly fork off new distros. So, I think all this attention on Ubuntu is great -- it means that lots of people are focused on getting it to work and do everything that they need it to do. - Jilkes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use Ubuntu and have recently installed k9copy (http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/) and found it to work very well.
- santaclaws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Two things the script does that this doesn't; a) decrypt the css; b) "intelligently" drop extra features to attempt to get the size down, and then only if necessary compress, to make it fit on a single layer DVD-R.
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"The best? what about for systems that don't have X windows installed?"
Seriously? The story's about Ubuntu, a heavily X-oriented distribution, and you're talking about a purely visual medium? You're actually worried about people with terminal-only or headless-only Linux boxes being able to pirate DVDs? Wow.
Some people are overly sensitive... - nograz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wrong place...
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