Re: Can't copy DVD

[Soenke von Stamm <sstamm@affili.net>]

Hi,

for a Movie backup, this might be a somewhat different task, especially if 
it's css protected (which might be the case even with your own dvd?)

To get a backup you might try dvdbackup which is in debian's i386 archive at 
least, if you need to decrypt check if you have the right to and get the 
necessary packages form Christian Marillat's repository, check apt-get.org 
for that. Not sure if all that is available for AMD64 though.

You write, your system seems to hang which sounds ... interesting ... maybe 
you don't have proper driver support for your chipset? I for example have a 
shuttle ST20G5 here which has an ATI chipset with ULi southbridge. That one 
is not supported with ide-DMA in current (upto 2.6.12) kernels, but copying 
and burning works ... only veeery slowly on my machine (running i386 -k7 
kernel). Also make sure you don't use ide-scsi which is depricated in 2.6 
kernels.


Hope that helps,


       Sönke


Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 23:43 schrieb studio-64:
> Hi thanks for the reply,
>
> I can burn DVDs from my HDrive and use DVD's for backups for Ardour and
> such.
>
> This is whay I got caught out by the DVD copy.
>
> The Copies load into Ardour or my HD no problem, but I had never tried a
> Film DVD.
>
> I now think it may have been the 'disk at once' that was causing the
> problem.
>
> I tried to make an image but it seemed to hang the system (although
> there is a lot of data to copy)
>
> I'll try again monday.
>
> Thanks for the help
> Bob