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One way to retrieve personal data from a problematic hard drive or computer is to boot from a Live Linux DVD or USB drive.
I used Linux Mint 19.2 MATE 64-bit on a SanDisk USB drive.
Already using a LUKS-encrypted hard-disk partition for data storage, I thought it would be a good idea to backup some files to an optical drive, instead.
A procedure to create a LUKS-encrypted DVD is outlined, further below in this blog entry.
As the software evolves, some of the advice that I found on the Internet is too old, but the fact is not easily detectable. Some of the mentioned tools are no longer available and some procedures are considered outdated.
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I've been a VLC media player user for a long time. But some funny thing happened when I upgraded my gentoo and VLC started lagging extremely hard. I tried everything: from downgrading codec libraries to removing ~/.vlc : nothing helped. The problem was when I was trying to watch DVDs and some avi files, it shown "buffering" on every frame, and, of course, I had a hang of few seconds every time. I've decided to try mplayer, as many people told me it's teh best.
So I emerged mplayer...
Dvd2Xvid is free opensource simple easy to use utility to convert DVDs into Xvid video formats. dvd2xvid is a simple GUI for MEncoder aimed at converting DVDs to xvid formats.Read More
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