Automate disc copying

esears · 04-15-2004, 01:32 PM

Hi, I'm currently serving over in Iraq and I have a slight issue that I was wondering if someone could possiblly help me with. My wife make home movies of my son and sends them to me so I can watch him grow up a little. I've gotten into the habit of copying them when they first get here since the sand and dust here really tears up optical discs. What I have been doing so far works fine but I was trying to find a quicker way to get it done. What I have been doing is the following:

dvdbackup -i/dev/dvd -M -o/put/file/here

mkisofs -dvd-video -oimg file name /file/loc

dvdrecord speed=2 -dao dev=1,0,0 /file/loc/here

It all works fine and dandy but I just have to be there for the whole step. I've tried using Acidrip but I can't get it to work to burn it straight to a dvd format. I'm trying to preserve everything in the same format and I'm not really interested in .avi or divx format for it all for compatibility reasons.

I also obviously don't have to worry about encryption or CSS matters since these are all home movies and aren't encoded in any way whatever.

Does anyone have any ideas on either the options to pass to acidrip since I know it will do it? Or possibly a script to help out with? I've tried my hand at shell scripting but I have quite gotten the hang of it yet.

It is just sort of frustrating since I've managed to get everything else on my laptop working fine finally. (Wireless was the biggest pain). If it makes a difference I'm just running Redhat 9.1 smp base kernel since I really have little access to the net here to download new kernels and everything that goes along with it.

If anyone needs help setting anything up on a Gateway M675 though be sure to ask and I will glady help.

Thanks for any help / criticism.

Nis · 04-15-2004, 02:47 PM

Try this as a script.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
file=/tmp/dvdimage
burnimage=/tmp/burnimage
dvdbackup -i/dev/dvd -M -o$file
mkisofs -dvd-video -o$file $burnimage
dvdrecord speed=2 -dao dev=1,0,0 $burnimage

I'm not exactly sure of the syntax of dvdbackup and dvdrecord so make sure you alter this to work for you; just change file and burnimage to what you need.

epod · 10-12-2004, 12:59 PM

Hi, I just got a gateway m675xl special plus )http://products.gateway.com/products...L_Special_Plus) and I have been having some issues getting Linux up and running on it. Namely, the ATI display drivers, Sound (it worked, but wouldn't play out of the headphones when plugged in, it kept coming out of the speakers), ACPI (something about the thermal module), Wireless, and so forth. I am hoping maybe you could assist me with getting it working properly? I was using SuSE 9.1, but I am amiable to prettymuch any distro.

miker79 · 05-04-2005, 12:31 AM

I am using suse 9.3 on a gateway 675xl and for the life of me cannot get sound coming out of the speakers. Only the headphone jack works... I know I have this sound card...STAC9758. How did you get yours working?