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.