[ale] DVD ripping

[Tim Meanor]

You can do this:
1.  dd if=/dev/<dvd drive> of=dvdimage.iso bs=2048

2.  mount -o loopback /path/to/dvdimage.iso /media

3.  Use VLC to watch the video by pointing it to  /media/VIDEO_TS

You could always copy /media/VIDEO_TS to your harddrive first if you  
prefer, though I kinda like keeping the .isos around instead.



-Tim


On Oct 30, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:

> Ok I've just started playing around with DVDs on my Linux box.  
> After playing a few, I decided to rip them so that the DVD would be  
> on my hard drive allowing me to play from hard drive instead of the  
> DVD player. I realize that DVD ripping is more involved that CD  
> ripping, but this is getting to be very frustrating. I have  
> installed DVD::rip and tried ripping a tv series dvd. I went  
> through the setup as stated in the docs, but I keep getting errors.  
> The first one happens almost right away when I click on the "Read  
> DVD TOC". I'll get:
>
> Failed to copy the IFO files. vobsub creation won't work properly.
> (Did you specify the mount point of your DVD drive in the  
> Preferences?)
> The error message is:
> Failed to mount DVD at /media/blahblahblah...........
>
> I've done all that I've found to supposedly fix it. The device  
> selected is /dev/scd0, and the error message even contains the DVD  
> title, that is loaded. So I ignore the error and continued,  
> selecting all titles displayed. The program goes through the  
> ripping and creates 3 folders under the DVD title folder of avi,  
> tmp, & vob. Tmp will have a bunch of files and vob seems to have  
> the individual video files from the DVD. The avi folder in the  
> meantime is empty. I can play with my either totem or gxine or  
> mplayer the individual videos. Is there another step that I need to  
> take? How do I actually resolve the first error?
>
> After spending several hours on it yesterday, I even tried using  
> k3b, dvdrip was suddenly able to read the TOC of one of the DVDs,  
> but it was indicating that it was going to take over 3 hours to rip  
> the 2nd of 10 titles, so I quite and canceled. Today I deleted all  
> that I had done and started all over. The first error is back.
>
> Any ideas? If not clear it's ok to contact me off list.
>
> TIA
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