copy DVD

sheine · 12-02-2005, 03:18 PM

Since this forum straightened me out on how to make an iso disk, I shall try it with something else that I cannot do. Although I can copy CD's with Kb3, I have never been able to successfully copy a movie DVD (not protected). Is there a trick or is it a KB3 limitation?

Thank you.

Bruce Hill · 12-02-2005, 03:46 PM

It works fine for me on K3B, but what's even easier is command line:

Code:

dd if=/dev/hdc of=namethecd.iso

Then you can issue this to make a new DVD:

Code:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hd*=image.iso

sheine · 12-03-2005, 11:24 AM

It may work for Chinaman, but not for me. When I go to "tools", copy DVD, it starts copying and finishes in a few seconds. Obviously, it doesn't copy the whole DVD. Nevertheless, I did let it burn and as expected all that it did was to waste a blank DVD.

Bruce Hill · 12-03-2005, 05:09 PM

Perhaps you could post some more information so we can really help you.
For instance, there are more settings in K3B than just "copy DVD", and
it would be nice to know what you've selected, what location you're
copying from and to, etc.

sheine · 12-04-2005, 07:01 AM

There is not much more to add. I have one DVD drive and I copy from it to it. Since I have two hard drives, I use one for Windows and one for linux. Using the same DVD drive, I can copy DVD movies with Windows, so it works properly. My DVD drive is recognized by the linux system. Other than issuing the burn command, I do not change any settings.

I hesitate to make the following comment, but nevertheless feel that I should do so. When I was brought up, admitedly a long time ago, chinaman was considered a derogatory term and we were taught always to say chinese.

sheine · 12-07-2005, 10:29 AM

Some progress, more to go.

Instead of using "copy DVD" in K3b, I copied a movie to my home folder. Then I used K3b to copy this to a DVD.

When I tried to use Kaffeine and my Panasonic DVD player, they did not recognize it. Then, I went to mnt and looked at the folder there. A number of files were shown. There were three .vob files. When I clicked any of them, Kaffeine played the movie.

How do I make a disk that I can play in my Panasonic, i.e. something exactly like the original?

Bruce Hill · 12-07-2005, 12:44 PM

Note that I have edited my second command, in how to make a
DVD out of an iso image. Why not just use those simple command
line tools?

sheine · 12-07-2005, 01:40 PM

First, I wish to thank Chinaman for his help.

My problem with his suggestion is that I hesitate to use commands that I do not understand.

For the first command, is my first line:
dd if /dev/mnt/cdrom2
Then a second line:
of=VIDEO_TS.iso

Do I follow with

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/mnt/cdrom2=image.iso ?

cfgert · 12-08-2005, 06:11 PM

The first is one line:

dd if=/dev/mnt/cdrom2 of=VIDEO_TS.iso

It means: Convert and Copy the file /dev/mnt/cdrom2 (if=input file) to the file VIDEO_TS.iso (of=output file)

The second line should be:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/mnt/cdrom2=VIDEO_TS.iso

cfgert

Bruce Hill · 12-08-2005, 06:45 PM

You can issue the growisofs command as root as it is above.
To issue it as user, you probably need it's full path, like:

Code:

/usr/bin/growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/mnt/cdrom2=VIDEO_TS.iso

Tp determine the full path for your distribution of Linux:

Code:

bruce@silas:~$ whereis growisofs
growisofs: /usr/bin/growisofs /usr/man/man1/growisofs.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/growisofs.1.gz

sheine · 12-09-2005, 01:44 PM

Closer (maybe), but still failure.
Based on the suggestions here and a few failures, I was able to make a VIDEO_TS.iso file.
Because of the idiosyncracies of linux, the command that I needed was:
dd if/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 of=VIDEO_TS.iso.

When I tried to use the suggested growisofs command (with various variations), I always got the response "previous "session" device is not specified, do not use -M or -Z options".

To test what I had copied, I tried to play VIDEO_TS.iso with Kaffeine and it would not do it.

Then, foolishly, I used K3b to make a disc from my VIDEO_TS.iso file. The resulting disc would not play either with Kaffeine or my Panasonic DVD player.

Bruce Hill · 12-09-2005, 05:21 PM

Let's take it from the top, shall we? Following directions
and typing without errors are necessary in *nix. You might
have something in your Linux distribution that doesn't work
the same as mine (Slackware). Linux refers to the kernel,
and each distribution does things somewhat differently.

So, from the top. First, which device is your DVD drive?

Code:

bruce@silas:~$ dmesg | grep -i dvd
hda: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

That tells me my DVD burner is /dev/hda -- where is yours?

So now, let's burn that DVD image to our hard drive. Note
that I'm burning as root, so as to gain full control...

Code:

root@silas:/backup/ISO/Little_House# dd if=/dev/hda of=Little_House01_03.iso
15347328+0 records in
15347328+0 records out

and let's check that directory to see what's in it...

Code:

root@silas:/backup/ISO/Little_House# ls -alh
total 22G
drwxr-xr-x  2 bruce users  168 2005-12-09 14:16 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 bruce users 1.1K 2005-12-07 22:46 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 bruce users 7.4G 2005-11-19 18:17 Little_House01_01.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 bruce users 7.3G 2005-11-20 09:00 Little_House01_02.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root  7.4G 2005-12-09 14:32 Little_House01_03.iso

Looks like some big 7+ gigabyte iso images. Okay, let's
try making a DVD out of one of them. (notice I was user
when I burned two images there before -- works that way
also if you'd rather not su to root)

Code:

root@silas:/backup/ISO/Little_House# growisofs -dvd-compat -overburn -Z /dev/hda=Little_House01_03.iso
Executing 'builtin_dd if=Little_House01_03.iso of=/dev/hda obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/hda: splitting layers at 1918416 blocks
:-( unable to SEND DVD+R DOUBLE LAYER RECORDING INFORMATION: Input/output error
root@silas:/backup/ISO/Little_House# growisofs -dvd-compat -overburn -Z /dev/hda=Little_House01_03.iso
Executing 'builtin_dd if=Little_House01_03.iso of=/dev/hda obs=32k seek=0'
:-? L0 Data Zone Capacity is set already
/dev/hda: "Current Write Speed" is 2.0x1385KBps.
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
         0/7857831936 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:??
   4489216/7857831936 ( 0.1%) @0.9x, remaining 1166:15
  15761408/7857831936 ( 0.2%) @2.4x, remaining 356:34
  27066368/7857831936 ( 0.3%) @2.4x, remaining 221:48
  38338560/7857831936 ( 0.5%) @2.4x, remaining 169:57
  49643520/7857831936 ( 0.6%) @2.4x, remaining 138:56
  60915712/7857831936 ( 0.8%) @2.4x, remaining 119:27
  72220672/7857831936 ( 0.9%) @2.4x, remaining 107:48
  83492864/7857831936 ( 1.1%) @2.4x, remaining 97:46
  94797824/7857831936 ( 1.2%) @2.4x, remaining 90:04
<snip, snip>
7852851200/7857831936 (99.9%) @2.4x, remaining 0:01
builtin_dd: 3836832*2KB out @ average 2.3x1385KBps
/dev/hda: flushing cache
/dev/hda: closing track
/dev/hda: closing disc

You'll notice from the message that these are double layer
(DL) DVDs. So, while yours might not be, the same commands
should work -- they do for me. You can leave the -burnfree
switch off if you want; I just prefer it because the hardware
is usually shipped with that feature.

You see that the first time, it errored and didn't burn. It does
that every time for me, and if I issue the command once more,
then it burns. I don't know why...

Fine, let's try to play it with xine in Slackware. Very good.
Now, let's go stick it in the home DVD player so that Libby
can watch Little House on the Prarie. Works there, too.

Those are verbose instructions. If you will give your device
rather than a directory, perhaps you'll have similar results.
When doing it this way, one does not mount the drive.

As for K3B, as I mentioned before, the GUI tools aren't
particulary impressive to me. That's one of the reasons I
much prefer Slackware to Windoze ... command line interface;
power to spare. Use those resources for something other than
redrawing screens. ;)

sheine · 12-09-2005, 05:53 PM

Following Chinaman's instructions, the drive was hdd.

This is what happened with the next step:

[root@localhost ~]# /backup/ISO/VIDEO_TS dd if=/dev/hdd of=VIDEO_TS
bash: /backup/ISO/VIDEO_TS: No such file or directory

Now what?

Bruce Hill · 12-09-2005, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sheine

Following Chinaman's instructions, the drive was hdd.

This is what happened with the next step:

[root@localhost ~]# /backup/ISO/VIDEO_TS dd if=/dev/hdd of=VIDEO_TS
bash: /backup/ISO/VIDEO_TS: No such file or directory

Now what?

Why did you put "/backup/ISO/VIDEO_TS" in front of the command?

Stick the DVD in /dev/hdd and then issue:
[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/hdd of=VIDEO_TS
from whatever directory you want to have the iso image.
In this example it will be in root's home directory.

If you want it in /backup/ISO/, then you should issue
"cd /backup/ISO/" before issuing the command. Do you
even have a directory called /backup/ISO/ on your box?
That is where I store iso images on my server.

I'd also suggest you name it something other than the
VIDEO_TS you have now. Give it a real name of the DVD.

sheine · 12-09-2005, 11:07 PM

Success. Thank you Chinaman.

The two commands that worked are:
[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/hdd of=VIDEO_TS
[root@localhost ~]# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd=VIDEO_TS

The first made a good copy to my root folder.
The second made the successful DVD.