I purchased a special collection boxed Superman set for my 10 year old daughter in May for her birthday and recently some second hand Zumba DVD's. My daughter is quite hard on DVD's. So I have as asked her to wait whilst I have them copied.

I will be using the Zumba regularly and know they will suffer so want use copies and save the originals.

I have done some reading and I think I have everything installed correctly.

I tried K9copy, but it immediately closed. I then tried K3b and noticed I needed 99GB of space. (I wonder if that is why K9copy closed?) The only thing I have that big is my backup external drive.

So I connected it up. I only had about 44 GB of space on it. I ticked for half the tracks which needed less space. So now there was enough space. I then clicked on rip DVD. It has been doing it continuously for 2 nights and is up to 24%.

So at this rate it will take a week to copy half a DVD to my drive and then I have to burn it to a DVD. This can't be right, can it? I am sure there is something obvious that I am missing. Hopefully someone can help.

I am running OpenSuse 11.3

Regards

nappy501

We can't say. A weak processor could take that long I guess.

Some of the disks can be quite a deal to copy. They don't want you to copy them.

Do you need an actual dvd?

With no comment on fair use, I'd use handbrake instead. A dvd usually ends up at default to a mp4 about 1.4G per disk. HDTV per hour tends to take up almost 8G in mpeg2. That is if your dvd player can play other formats.

Hi
Thank you for your response.
Some more information:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
1,683.11 MHz
Total memory (RAM): 436.0 MiB
Free swap: 599.7 MiB

Is that weak?

Yes, I know I am not supposed to copy them, but I feel robbed when we have a DVD for a year and it freezes or just won't play. Normally I accept that is the way it is and buy another. But the Superman is a Collectors Edition Box Set, I don't think I can replace it.

I don't understand do I actually need a DVD? What else can I do?

Regards
Nappy501

It should not take weeks, but it will take many hours. This is a very weak processor. To sure to have libdvdcss installed. You could also use the command line mencoder or ffmepef to do the ripping. Handbrake, the popular way to do it on MacOSX and Windows is also available for Linux.

If you have windows in a virtual machine, you might also try using AnyDVD, which is a (sadly Windows-only) program that will remove copy protection from any dvd or brd and allow you to make a completely DRM-free replica. Handbrake is best for just making video files, but to actually replicate copy-protected DVDs you'll need something like AnyDVD.

k9copy would be the program to use. What version of it do you have? Perhaps installing a newer version would work. I had an older version that was unable to deal with newer dvds, but after upgrading I had no problems.