[SOLVED] Can't get Bombono DVDD

Gregg Bell · 11-23-2020, 02:16 PM

I just did a clean install of Xubuntu 20.04 and now I can't get Bombono DVD.

I tried:

Code:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install bombono-dvd

but got:

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package bombono-dvd is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'bombono-dvd' has no installation candidate

Anybody know how to get it?

Additionally, I don't have the Software Center. How can I get that?

Thanks.

uteck · 11-24-2020, 09:03 AM

Do you have the universe repo enabled? What does this command show?

Code:

 apt show bombono-dvd

It shows up on my install, but I am still on 18.04.

The software center package is called "software-properties-common" I think.

Gregg Bell · 11-24-2020, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uteck

Do you have the universe repo enabled? What does this command show?

Code:

 apt show bombono-dvd

It shows up on my install, but I am still on 18.04.

The software center package is called "software-properties-common" I think.

Thanks uteck. Here's what the command shows:

Code:

Package: bombono-dvd
State: not a real package (virtual)
N: Can't select candidate version from package bombono-dvd as it has no candidate
N: Can't select versions from package 'bombono-dvd' as it is purely virtual
N: No packages found

So just

Code:

apt get software-properties-common

to get the Software Center?

ondoho · 11-25-2020, 01:11 AM

Looks like Bombono-DVD hasn't been in the Ubuntu repos for a long while:
https://launchpad.net/~muravjov-il/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Latest release 2012.
The latest supported Ubuntu version in the dropdown is 14.10.
I recommend using something else.

Gregg Bell · 11-25-2020, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

Looks like Bombono-DVD hasn't been in the Ubuntu repos for a long while:
https://launchpad.net/~muravjov-il/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Latest release 2012.
The latest supported Ubuntu version in the dropdown is 14.10.
I recommend using something else.

Thanks. Any suggestions?

ondoho · 11-26-2020, 12:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Any suggestions?

What do you require?

Gregg Bell · 11-26-2020, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

What do you require?

I want to make backup copies of a few of my movies, so what I would do is start in MakeMKV and then finish in Bombono. So I guess rip it in MakeMKV and burn to a new DVD in Bombono.

computersavvy · 11-26-2020, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

I want to make backup copies of a few of my movies, so what I would do is start in MakeMKV and then finish in Bombono. So I guess rip it in MakeMKV and burn to a new DVD in Bombono.

So k3b or many others would do what you need. Search for the burner of choice and use it instead.

Gregg Bell · 12-01-2020, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by computersavvy

So k3b or many others would do what you need. Search for the burner of choice and use it instead.

Thanks savvy. I tried Dedeve and burned an iso there and then k3b burned 98% of the iso, then bailed with "write error." I'm going to make a new post just asking how to copy a DVD.

computersavvy · 12-02-2020, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Thanks savvy. I tried Dedeve and burned an iso there and then k3b burned 98% of the iso, then bailed with "write error." I'm going to make a new post just asking how to copy a DVD.

What exactly is Dedeve? You say you burned an iso there, but in my experience "burning" is the operation of actually writing to a disk (DVD, CD, BluRay, etc) so what exactly do you mean by "I tried Dedeve and burned an iso there"?

K3B can copy a DVD, Brasero can copy a DVD, both are also able to "rip" a CD or DVD.

I believe you said you are wanting to do backups of movies, and that you are using makeMKV to do so. MakeMKV rips the movie and creates a .mkv file which can then easily be put onto a data DVD as a file as long as the file size fits the disk. You will need to look at the size of the file being put onto the disk and make certain it will fit. If not then the writing to the disk will always fail.

I have been ripping my movies with makeMKV to a large data HDD on my PC for long term storage and as a video source for Plex Media Server to provide those movies to my home without needing the DVD or BluRay disks.

teckk · 12-02-2020, 02:50 PM

Quote:

What exactly is Dedeve?

This I think.

Code:

pacman -Si devede
...
Name            : devede
Version         : 4.16.0-1
Description     : Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
Licenses        : GPL3
...
Depends On      : gtk3  python-cairo  python-gobject  python-setuptools  ffmpeg
                  cdrtools  dvdauthor  vcdimager
...
Download Size   : 1591.89 KiB
Installed Size  : 2971.03 KiB
...

Quote:

I want to make backup copies of a few of my movies,

Back them up how? Make another clone disk or dump the .vob files and reencode them?

A good little tool for working with DVD's is lsdvd. You also need libdvdcss installed for content scrambling.

To make an .iso of a DVD

Code:

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=Myfile.iso bs=2048

You can then make another clone disk from the .iso file. If it was a dual layer disk then the new disk will need to be dual layer, duh.

Burn another one.

Code:

growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=8 -use-the-force-luke=tty -Z /dev/sr0=/path/Myfile.iso

Or you can play that .iso with mplayer

Code:

mplayer -dvd-device Myfile.iso dvdnav://

If you want to dump a title to file then, find out what title you want and

Code:

mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile Myfile.vob.

As for reencoding, there is no better tool than ffmpeg.

Code:

ffmpeg -i Myfile.vob -c:a copy -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow -maxrate 3000k -bufsize 1M -r 24 -s 854x480 Myfile.mp4

Read:
man lsdvd
man mplayer
man ffmpeg
man dd
man growisofs
man mkisofs

computersavvy · 12-02-2020, 03:33 PM

[QUOTE=teckk;6191086]This I think.

Code:

pacman -Si devede
...
Name            : devede
Version         : 4.16.0-1
Description     : Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
Licenses        : GPL3
...
Depends On      : gtk3  python-cairo  python-gobject  python-setuptools  ffmpeg
                  cdrtools  dvdauthor  vcdimager
...
Download Size   : 1591.89 KiB
Installed Size  : 2971.03 KiB
...

So he is trying to make a video dvd? going backwards from an .mkv file? Or just trying to do a copy of a DVD?

One way to do the copy could be to do

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=dvdimage.iso bs=16M

assuming his DVD drive is /dev/sr0 (as it is on mine).
Then use brasero or k3b or another burner to burn that iso image back to a new disk.
That should give him an exact duplicate DVD assuming he uses the same type disk as the original.

AFAIK any other way except making the .mkv file and then saving it onto the new DVD would run into encryption problems. The .mkv would have already handled decrypting the DVD to rip it.

Gregg Bell · 12-02-2020, 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

This I think.

Code:

pacman -Si devede
...
Name            : devede
Version         : 4.16.0-1
Description     : Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
Licenses        : GPL3
...
Depends On      : gtk3  python-cairo  python-gobject  python-setuptools  ffmpeg
                  cdrtools  dvdauthor  vcdimager
...
Download Size   : 1591.89 KiB
Installed Size  : 2971.03 KiB
...

Back them up how? Make another clone disk or dump the .vob files and reencode them?

A good little tool for working with DVD's is lsdvd. You also need libdvdcss installed for content scrambling.

To make an .iso of a DVD

Code:

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=Myfile.iso bs=2048

You can then make another clone disk from the .iso file. If it was a dual layer disk then the new disk will need to be dual layer, duh.

Burn another one.

Code:

growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=8 -use-the-force-luke=tty -Z /dev/sr0=/path/Myfile.iso

Or you can play that .iso with mplayer

Code:

mplayer -dvd-device Myfile.iso dvdnav://

If you want to dump a title to file then, find out what title you want and

Code:

mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile Myfile.vob.

As for reencoding, there is no better tool than ffmpeg.

Code:

ffmpeg -i Myfile.vob -c:a copy -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow -maxrate 3000k -bufsize 1M -r 24 -s 854x480 Myfile.mp4

Read:
man lsdvd
man mplayer
man ffmpeg
man dd
man growisofs
man mkisofs

Thanks for the great post, teckk. And I apologize for the shoddy explanations I gave.

Quote:

Back them up how?

I just have a movie I bought at a used book sale that I'd like to put on a blank DVD. I used to rip the movie on MakeMKV and then burn it on Bombono,which allowed me to fit the whole movie on the DVD even if it was bigger than 4.7GB. It had a feature allowing for that.

Thanks for all the terminal commands, but I'm still not quite comfortable doing stuff there if I can help it.

Gregg Bell · 12-02-2020, 06:52 PM

[QUOTE=computersavvy;6191099]

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

This I think.

Code:

pacman -Si devede
...
Name            : devede
Version         : 4.16.0-1
Description     : Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
Licenses        : GPL3
...
Depends On      : gtk3  python-cairo  python-gobject  python-setuptools  ffmpeg
                  cdrtools  dvdauthor  vcdimager
...
Download Size   : 1591.89 KiB
Installed Size  : 2971.03 KiB
...

So he is trying to make a video dvd? going backwards from an .mkv file? Or just trying to do a copy of a DVD?

One way to do the copy could be to do

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/sr0 of=dvdimage.iso bs=16M

assuming his DVD drive is /dev/sr0 (as it is on mine).
Then use brasero or k3b or another burner to burn that iso image back to a new disk.
That should give him an exact duplicate DVD assuming he uses the same type disk as the original.

AFAIK any other way except making the .mkv file and then saving it onto the new DVD would run into encryption problems. The .mkv would have already handled decrypting the DVD to rip it.

Thanks savvy. I'm sorry for the confusion. I just want to put a movie that I bought at a used book sale onto a blank DVD. That's it. I used to rip it with MakeMKV and then burn it with Bombono, which allowed me to fit the entire MKV file even though it was bigger than the 4.7GB size. It had a button to click on to do that.

computersavvy · 12-03-2020, 01:33 PM

[QUOTE=Gregg Bell;6191162]

Quote:

Originally Posted by computersavvy

Thanks savvy. I'm sorry for the confusion. I just want to put a movie that I bought at a used book sale onto a blank DVD. That's it. I used to rip it with MakeMKV and then burn it with Bombono, which allowed me to fit the entire MKV file even though it was bigger than the 4.7GB size. It had a button to click on to do that.

Ahhhh. So devede and bombono did inline compression which is quite possible since an mkv file is basically an mp4 in a container.
I of course have not used all possible CD/DVD burning software but don't recall any that have the ability to compress a file as it is written to dvd and still have it directly readable as the original movie. I don't find anything in brasero or k3b that would allow that directly.

Just to check things out before I posted this, I did a bit of research on devede.
It turns out there is a newer version of devede called devedeng with the current version for linux at 4.16. It works with python3 and uses k3b or brasero to actually burn the disk. Devedeng itself has the button to do the mentioned compression so for what you are saying you needed and what you had with devede and bombono you now can have with devedeng and either k3b or brasero.

I did a test with an mkv file that would have been 107% of a 4.7GB disk and was able to compress that to fit. Not an extensive test but it seems to work.