I am asking if there is a Linux software (or even a free Windows 'ware) that I can use to to make copies of DVDs for myself and myself alone. I want original quality copies if possible (if not, then really high quality copies), not the crappy, ugly copies like the videos my local Bollywood video store rents to me.

Here is my project-

I have a set of DVDs for my kids that I want to edit and recopy so that the events on the disks are in chronological order. As the disks are right now, you can tell that they made one disk, said "this is selling well, let's try another one" and so forth until now there are three of them with the order of the events chronologically out of whack. Imagine an American History DVD that covers from the Mayflower to the Gulf War and then the company puts out a second and a third all covering the same timespan, filling in the gaps as they add more videos... you can see the annoyance.

I just want to burn the chapters in chronological order over three DVDs. There used to be a Windows software that caused a lot of ire in the movie industry called Alcohol 120 that would flat out copy a DVD perfectly, I am sure that there are others, too.



Thanks,

B.

No tool is inherently evil...

K9Copy will do your direct backups. Resizing the content to go from a Dual Layer DVD to a single layer if so desired. you can select the tracks, chapters, subtitles, languages to include or exclude.


to reorganize chapters chronologically you would need to rip the contents of all the DVD's using something like dvd:rip Re-arrange and create a new DVD Compilation using those ripped chapters.
I use qdvdauthor for creating that new compilations.