How to backup DVDs to DVD+R

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paulisdead · Post by **paulisdead** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:19 am

Well after many hours of toiling and burning coasters, I've finally managed to backup a DVD to a DVD+R that should play on ROMS and standalone players. I figured I'd share the knowledge to save others the hassle. This will only work with 1 side of a DVD or a single sided DVD. This guide's only intended for DVD+R drives, though it shoudl work with DVD+RW.

Here's what you will need

dvd+rw-tools dvdrtools and dvdbackup
also you will need udf read and write support in the kernel or as modules. I'll assume the same drive is the source and end destination. SCSI emulation working on the drive is a must as far as I know.

First you need to make the image of the DVD on the hard drive.

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dvdbackup -M -i /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -o /home/user/dvd

now we need to make sure it didn't miss anything on the DVD. So we're going to mount it and copy some more stuff over, but say no to overwriting any files.

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mount -t udf -o ro /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/VIDEO_TS/
cp -i *.IFO /home/user/dvd/NameOfDVD
cp -i VIDEO_TS* /home/user/dvd/NameOfDVD
cd /home/user/dvd
umount /mnt/cdrom

Remember not to overwrite any of the above files, this is just to make sure nothing was missed. Next we need to make the image of the DVD to prepare it for burning.

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mkisofs -dvd-video -v -o /home/user/dvd/NameOfDVD.iso /home/user/dvd/NameOfDVD

OK, now we're ready to burn the DVD. You'll probably want to do this as root, since I don't think it can use the built in dd command as a user.

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growisofs -Z /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd=/home/user/dvd/NameOfDVD.iso

OK that should make you a backup of the DVD. Works fine with my 4x NEC DVD+R

*edit* you might be able to get DVDs larger than 4.4GBs to copy by only copying the feature instead of the whole disk. So you'd use this dvdbackup command

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dvdbackup -i /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -v -F -o /home/user/dvd

bogey · Post by **bogey** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:36 pm

I used a guide...
http://www.frogcement.com/html/dvd/linu ... rning.html

This is basically the same as your info, using the -F feature you mentioned. However, I still had a problem. Even using the -F flag, the files were above 4.7 GB when I do a du -h.

Does anyone know how to determine which files are features I can take out (ie other languages, etc)?

-bogey

bogey · Post by **bogey** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:09 pm

Found this site that is helpful...

www.dvdrhelp.com

-bogey

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:02 pm

bogey wrote:I used a guide...
http://www.frogcement.com/html/dvd/linu ... rning.html

This is basically the same as your info, using the -F feature you mentioned. However, I still had a problem. Even using the -F flag, the files were above 4.7 GB when I do a du -h.

Does anyone know how to determine which files are features I can take out (ie other languages, etc)?

-bogey

Same problem

Any solution yet?

ZuluX · Post by **ZuluX** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:22 pm

One solution would be to backup the entire dvd then use dvd shrink under wine to reencode reauthor the dvd

dvd shrink is free

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 11:27 am

Yeah, the solution "dvdbackup + wine/dvdshrink + growisofs" works perfectly!!!

rectrix · Post by **rectrix** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:10 am

And root perms are not required either.

I've used growisofs on kernel 2.6.0-test6 w/o scsi emulation and with a "normal" user with no problems for paulisdead's last step:

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growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd=/my/dvd_image.iso

worked like a charm - thanks for the HOWTO!

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:06 pm

growisofs is in which ebuild?

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:04 pm

can someone please tell me where growisofs is located, kernel option, in an ebuild package, where?

EDIT: eventually i found it: dvd+rw-tools

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:15 pm

You are right

activ · Post by **activ** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:19 pm

growisofs is part of DVD+RW-tools

dtessier · Post by **dtessier** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:45 am

For those of you that have gotten dvdshrink to work under wine, how did you get it to work? Any DLL's required? I can run the 3.0 Beta 5, but when I re-author, I'm not able to either drag-and-drop or copy and paste things from one window to the other.

Right now I'm running dvdshrink on my wife's PC, but it's much slower than mine

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:54 am

No DLLs are required.
Use the context-menu to copy and paste the files.

dtessier · Post by **dtessier** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:29 am

I've been trying to... I can select the item I want, right-click to choose copy, then right-click in the destination window to select paste, but nothing happens!

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:03 pm

which version of DVD shrink are you guys using, i can't get Title1 to copy over on the reauthor either. (right click does nothing)

paulisdead · Post by **paulisdead** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 8:18 pm

Has anyone gotten LVE http://home.arcor.de/gmo18t/lve/ to work? I tried about a month or so ago, and couldn't get it to go. I can't remember what was wrong, but maybe it's been fixed recently, since it looks like they've done a lot of updates in October. If anyone takes a crack at it, you'll need to grab the version of ffmpeg from their site as well as LVE, and when you run ./configure you need to do it as "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" since that's where it wants ffmpeg and LVE to be installed. I'll try taking another crack at it today if I have time.

lawrence · Post by **lawrence** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:40 pm

I have problems getting burned DVDs to work with my DVD-player (Pioneer DV-444). DVD-player just says that it cannot play the media.

First I did

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dvdbackup -M -i /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd -o /dvd

Then I used DVDShrink to fit movie to media. Next I did two different images from files that DVDShrink created, ISO and UDF.

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mkisofs -dvd-video -v -o /dvd/matrix.iso /dvd/MATRIX

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mkisofs -dvd-video -v -o /dvd/matrix.udf   /dvd/MATRIX

I burned images

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growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd=/dvd/matrix.iso

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growisofs -Z /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd=/dvd/matrix.udf

But they don’t work with my DVD-player. Any ideas why? I use Linux 2.6-test8/9. If I use Windows 2000 + DVDShrink and Nero, burned DVD works in my player without problems. I don’t want to move back to Windows. Help!

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:41 pm

check the files are in a VIDEO_TS folder in the ISO and on the DVD

lawrence · Post by **lawrence** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 3:08 am

viperlin wrote:check the files are in a VIDEO_TS folder in the ISO and on the DVD

Files are in VIDEO_TS folder.

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 12:28 pm

Add an empty AUDIO_TS folder. And you don't need the ISO-stuff!

viperlin · Post by **viperlin** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:59 pm

SNo0py wrote:Add an empty AUDIO_TS folder. And you don't need the ISO-stuff!

this has never been required in my experience, actually having an AUDIO_TS can stop it working on some DVD players

kwiqsilver · Post by **kwiqsilver** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 1:31 am

Is there a way to shrink a big dvd without using wine?

lucindrea · Post by **lucindrea** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 2:12 am

bogey wrote:Found this site that is helpful...

www.dvdrhelp.com

-bogey

good dplace to start .. the experts hang out at
www.doom9.org

SNo0py · Post by **SNo0py** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 12:56 pm

kwiqsilver wrote:Is there a way to shrink a big dvd without using wine?

Yes, Windows

No, actually there is no way...

castra · Post by **castra** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 2:36 pm

Trying to do the same but can't pass the second thing
dvdbackup -M -i /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -o /home/xxx/dvd

and this is the output

dvdbackup -M -i /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -o /home/xxx/dvd
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000151
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000190
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x000016c8
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x000031e8
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x00006c40
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x000d493d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x000d685b
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x000dec58
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x000dec5d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x000e50b6
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x000e50bb
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x000ecaf9
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x0010f225
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 6 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
Error reading MENU VOB
Mirror of Title set 1 faild
Mirror of DVD faild

I guess it can't get pass the protection ?
Ideas ?

How to backup DVDs to DVD+R

How to backup DVDs to DVD+R

tried similar...

dvdr

Re: tried similar...

SCSI emulation not required

does not work :(

Re: dvdr