Using cmd:vobcopy to dup DVD

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Use dvdbackup instead. More robust, less restrictions, and more recent.

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vobcopy without any options will copy the title with the most chapters into files of 2GB size into the current working directory.

-l, —large-file write data into one file (needs large file support (LFS))

-t, —name NAME you can give the file a name if you don't like the one from dvd. -t hallo will result in hallo.vob. (stdout or "-" are deprecated now) If you want to give it names like "Huh I like this movie", do it in quotation marks.

-m, —mirror mirrors the whole dvd to harddisk. It will create a directory named after the dvd and copy the ifo, bup and vob files there. The title-vobs are decrypted during this.

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http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/en/separate/ripping.html

Run vobcopy. It will automagically copy all VOBs that belong to the title with the most chapters onto your hard disk.

First, mount your DVD: mount /dvd
Let vobcopy grab those VOBs: vobcopy -i /dvd -m

This will copy the VOBs from the DVD and write them to the current directory (which you can alter with e.g. -o /space). They will be named after the DVD's title (e.g. I have ALLY_MCBEAL_DISC21-1.vob, ALLY_MCBEAL_DISC21-2.vob etc.). The -m switch causes vobcopy to actually mirror the DVD's contents including the .IFO files - useful because you can then use the local copy with MPlayer/MEncoder or transcode just like it was a real DVD. It will take some time. Just be patient.

Note from the author (Robos): vobcopy has some problems following angles. You might get duplicate scenes with e.g. "The Matrix". I'm working on it.

Another note from Robos: There's another new utility called dvdbackup that can also copy DVDs.

Working History

trial 1

$ vobcopy
Vobcopy 0.5.14 - GPL Copyright (c) 2001 - 2004 robos@muon.de
[Hint] All lines starting with "libdvdread:" are not from vobcopy but from the libdvdread-library

path to dvd: /dev/loop1
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
name of dvd: CDROM
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 chapters on the dvd.
Most chapters has title 1 with 1 chapters.

There are 1 angles on this dvd.
Using Title: 1
Title has 1 chapters and 1 angles
Using Chapter: 1
Using Angle: 1

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

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000126
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0

DVD-name: CDROM

Outputting to /lfs/cache13/movies/temp/records/CDROM1-1.vob

  28MB of   28MB written (100 %)
[Error]File size (29394944) of /lfs/cache13/movies/temp/records/CDROM1-1.vob.partial differs largely from 2GB, therefore keeps it's .partial
Successfully copied file /lfs/cache13/movies/temp/records/CDROM1-1.vob.partial

Copying finished! Let's see if the sizes match (roughly)
Combined size of title-vobs: 29394944 (28 MB)
Copied size (size on disk):  29394944 (28 MB)
Everything seems to be fine, the sizes match pretty good ;-)
[Hint] Have a lot of fun!