Still trying with ls and mount...still perplexed!

Did you try copying *.VOB ?
and ls -l gives more information.

Ok, now that you have the disk mounted, use 'vobcopy -l' to copy off the vobs, into one file.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/vobcopy/

Hi

sudo cp -r /mnt/VIDEO_TS /home/paul/VOB/

The shell can't expand the * since it doesn't have access to the /mnt/VIDEO_TS directory. It does that before the sudo.

I've managed to copy the VOBs into my home directory, but I can't access them. The default permissions (root is the only one allowed to rwx on the directory) have been retained, and when I do a sudo chmod ug+rw on the directory, even though an "ls -al" shows the permissions
have been changed, I still can't cd into the directory!

vobcopy won't compile, btw:

paul@paul:~/Downloads/vobcopy-1.2.0$ make
cc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/usr/local//include -c vobcopy.c
In file included from vobcopy.c:53:
vobcopy.h:205:32: error: dvdread/dvd_reader.h: No such file or directory
vobcopy.h:210:31: error: dvdread/ifo_types.h: No such file or directory
vobcopy.h:211:30: error: dvdread/ifo_read.h: No such file or directory
vobcopy.h:213:30: error: dvdread/nav_read.h: No such file or directory
vobcopy.h:214:31: error: dvdread/nav_print.h: No such file or directory
In file included from vobcopy.h:217,
from vobcopy.c:53:
dvd.h:9: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
vobcopy.c: In function ‘main’:
vobcopy.c:76: error: ‘DVD_VIDEO_LB_LEN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:76: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
vobcopy.c:76: error: for each function it appears in.)
vobcopy.c:99: error: ‘dvd_reader_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:99: error: ‘dvd’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:100: error: ‘dvd_file_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:100: error: ‘dvd_file’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:110: error: ‘ifo_handle_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:110: error: ‘vmg_file’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:111: error: ‘tt_srpt_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:111: error: ‘tt_srpt’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:112: error: ‘vts_file’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:113: error: ‘vts_ptt_srpt_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:113: error: ‘vts_ptt_srpt’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:114: error: ‘pgc_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:114: error: ‘cur_pgc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:1188: error: ‘DVD_READ_INFO_BACKUP_FILE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:1222: error: ‘DVD_READ_INFO_FILE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:1260: error: ‘DVD_READ_MENU_VOBS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:1265: error: ‘DVD_READ_TITLE_VOBS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
vobcopy.c:1828: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘off_t’
make: *** [vobcopy.o] Error 1

Hi

Permission problem still. You can take ownership:

You don't have libdvdread installed, I recommend this version:
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml

There is a newer version made by the people at mplayer.hu, but vobcopy doesn't work with that one for some reason.

If you managed to copy off the VOBs yourself, you can concatenate them using 'cat', just make sure they are in the right order.

P.S. I can't believe Ubuntu doesn't have these somewhere in some repo.

Thanks, I did a bit of checking, and there is a directory within VOB called "VIDEO_TS" and this is also displaying the same problems with
permissions. I can't even change ownership of it.