DVD backup

[henri]

Hi folks,

Henri, your script seems to have a bug regarding the (r) esume option...

it presented me with a list of dirs in the scratch area, and asked me to enter the one containing the dvd I wanted to burn, then, when I selected mine, proceeded to try to burn the last entry on it's list, not the one I entered.

Thanks!
Bill

Hmmm... this sounds strange! - I changed very little in the script as version 0.2. To ensure everything works, I now ripped a dvd using all three methods (I used the requantizer): A full, fast backup, a raw-backup which I resumed and a choosen language backup which I resumed and all three worked fine.
So: ??? - To make it clear: When resuming a backup and presented with a list of already ripped dvds in the workdir, you have to enter the number and not the "name" of the rip.

Which backup-type did you choose and did you use a requantizer to save space?

Maybe you want to try again? Get version 0.2 @ http://www.byteconcepts.de/free/download/fdvdcopy

If you still have problems, please write me a email using the contact form on the homepage.

Yours Henri

[outspoken]

(2) dvd-video.sh (creates dvd iso)

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#!/bin/sh
mkisofs -dvd-video -o $2 $1

That script takes 2 arguments the folder containing the DVD structure and the name of the dvd iso that you are going to create, a example command would be:
media root # dvd-video.sh /home/nyteryda/dvds/MATRIX /home/nyteryda/matrix.iso

actually the .iso image name should be the first variable, not the opposite.

media root # dvd-video.sh /home/nyteryda/matrix.iso /home/nyteryda/dvds/MATRIX

[Spent]

I'm having trouble getting dvdbackup to work

I do this...

dvdbackup -M -i /mnt/dvd -o /home/spent/DVD

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libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hda mounted on /mnt/dvd for CSS authentication
Can't read title from DVD device /mnt/dvd
You must provide a title name when you read your DVD-Video structure direct from the HD

I'm not reading it off the HD /dev/hda is my DVD drive.

dvdbackup is finding the DVD. When entering

dvdbackup -i /mnt/dvd -I

I get this..

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libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/hda mounted on /mnt/dvd for CSS authentication

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 0x00000160
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00002180
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00003320
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x000034a0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x000034c0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x000080c0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x000080f9
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 3 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
Can't read title from DVD device /mnt/dvd



DVD-Video information of the DVD with tile

I cut the rest out since it is meaning less

The dvdbackup readme says:

Since the title is "uniq" you can use the same dir for all your DVD backups. If it happens to have a generic title dvdbackup will exit with a return value of 2. And you will need to specify a title name with the -n switch.

This shows that a return value of 2 is a title error.

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Return values
0 on success
1 on usage error
2 on title name error
-1 on failur

It says to use the -n switch, but I don't know how to use it. That one little line is the only mention of the -n switch

[nouse66]

is is possible to pipe the output of dvdbackup straight to mkisofs? that would save a lot of intermediate disk space

[iainvt]

Hi there I wrote the 9>5 guide, here is my shrink guide with the mkisofs line that creates a correct udf file structure, scroll to the bottom of the page you are taken to.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-71 ... rt-50.html

[lotw]

Why not save yourself the hassle and just emerge dvd9to5? It will do everything you want and works pretty good and easy to setup/use.

[nouse66]

because some people like to have a complete copy of the the dvd.

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media-video/dvd9to5 [ Masked ]
Perl script to backup the main feature of a DVD-9 on DVD-5

Why not save yourself the hassle and just emerge dvd9to5? It will do everything you want and works pretty good and easy to setup/use.

[m707]

because some people like to have a complete copy of the the dvd.

If you want to keep everything, you can only use wine and dvdshrink. There is no native linux solution

A promissing approach would be:

• use dvdunauthor
  shrink (requant) everything above lets say 10 MB
  $Editor dvdauthor.xml
  dvdauthor
  If needed, correct the ifos dvdauthor gives manualy using pgcedit

been there and given up after 10 days of 2-3 hours work a day .

If you can cope with new menus get lxdvdrip and integrate dvdwizard in it.

You will loose the original menus but dvdwizzard will create a tumb preview chapters menu and one for audio selection.

lxdvdrip offer several ripping backends (transcode, mplayer, streamdvd -some features broken at present-, vamps). the main
advantage of vamps is that it can be used as a pipe dvdauthors xml syntax and there is no need to de(re)multiplex
to requant. So it helps to save some HD space.

lxdvdauthor is aware of handling forced subtitles and some more advanced DVD features.
However, 1:1 copies of multiangle DVDs are still a real pain, too.

is is possible to pipe the output of dvdbackup straight to mkisofs? that would save a lot of intermediate disk space

There will IMHO be no change to get the content of $rippingtool piped to mkisofs.

When authoring the DVD, it is the very last step to create the navigation (AKA ifo) files. If your RAM/swap is large
enough it is probably possible to keep the whole stuff in memory and feed it to mkisofs from there, but I doupt such
solutions will make much sense .

Just my 0.02 EUR.