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Re: copying DVD to hard drive ... ?



On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 18:59, Dave Selby wrote:
> I have 80+GB hard drive free, I have a few favorite movies I like to play in 
> the background and "dip into" I would like to store them on my hard drive and 
> play them from there. Is there a way to do this ?
> 
> I tried dd ...
> 
> web@debian:~$ su
> Password:
> debian:/home/web# dd if=/dev/hdd of=/mnt/debexp/cdtest
> dd: reading `/dev/hdd': Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> debian:/home/web# mount /cdrom/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> debian:/home/web#
> 
> No go ... I guess I need something like grip for DVD ?

This is what Jon Johanson (sp?) got in trouble for when he wrote
DeCSS, since the disk is encrypted.

One on the programs in the mplayer package should help: mencoder.

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