Re: can't cp files from dvd

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, ric@otte.ucsc.edu wrote:
> Out of curiosity I thought I'd try to copy files from a movie DVD to my
> hard drive.  When I tried to copy some of the .vob files, I got a
> message that said something like input/output error, and nothing would
> copy.  This isn't real important to me, and I'm mostly simply curious,
> but is it possible to copy files using cp from a mounted dvd?  I had
> thought they should be able to be copied, but now wonder if there is
> some sort of hardware block that prevents this (my dvd reader is old) or
> if there was some trick I didn't know.  Thanks,
>
> Ric

if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob files 
themselves, mencoder can copy the streams into an avi file:

mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o foo.avi

this will also decrypt them.

-jason pepas