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Copying DVDs to the hard drive.
Name: linux4me Date: January 13, 2004 at 08:59:58 Pacific OS: SuSE 9.0 Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 1.3 / 640 MB D
Comment:
Hey guys.
Is there a way to copy DVDs to the hard drive, then play them from the hard drive? Is there any encryption that has to be turned off? ...and what program(s) would I use for this?
Name: Jake Date: January 13, 2004 at 10:12:51 Pacific
Reply:
drip is a good GUI program to rip DVDs, and even encode as divx if you want. MPlayer's mencoder would also do the job. I suppose you could just mount the DVD and copy the contents somewhere, or probably even use the dd command to make an image of the DVD ("dd if=/dev/dvd of=huge_file.img").
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: January 15, 2004 at 05:06:36 Pacific
Reply:
If the DVD is encoded you will also need to have the libdvdcss. You should be able to get most files required to watch DVDs etc from the ogle website (www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml)
I personally use mplayer (mencoder) to rip DVDs to divx, xvid etc. (www.mplayerhq.hu)
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