How to backup DVDs to DVD+R

paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

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.

bogey · n00b Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 40 Location: USA

I used a guide...
http://www.frogcement.com/html/dvd/linux_dvd_burning.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 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 40 Location: USA

Found this site that is helpful...

www.dvdrhelp.com

-bogey

SNo0py · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: tried similar...

ZuluX · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 1

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 · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 11:27 am Post subject:

Yeah, the solution "dvdbackup + wine/dvdshrink + growisofs" works perfectly!!!
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rectrix · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

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:

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

growisofs is in which ebuild?

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

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 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:15 pm Post subject:

You are right

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activ · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 49

growisofs is part of DVD+RW-tools

dtessier · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:45 am Post subject:

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.
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SNo0py · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:54 am Post subject:

No DLLs are required.
Use the context-menu to copy and paste the files.
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dtessier · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:29 am Post subject:

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!
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viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

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 · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

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.
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lawrence · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

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

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

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

lawrence · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

SNo0py · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 12:28 pm Post subject:

Add an empty AUDIO_TS folder. And you don't need the ISO-stuff!
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viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

kwiqsilver · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 360

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

lucindrea · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 50

SNo0py · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 12:56 pm Post subject:

castra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 86

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