On Fri, 22 May 2020 15:40:42 -0400
Bob Goodwin wrote:
I have a set of instructional DVDs the I am asked to copy to thumb
USB
drive. Can it be done with Fedora 31, the computer with a DVD drive and
if possible what is the best program to use.
If they are normal video DVDs, the dvdbackup program can turn them
into disk image files. Might need to add
rpmfusion.org repos
and install rpmfusion-free-release-tainted from there so that
you can then install libdvdcss.
If they are hybrid disks with windows executables and such, not
sure how to get that to run, but dvdbackup probably still
creates an image of the entire DVD (not sure about that)
If you then want the videos in more convenient format (like
mkv or mp4) the HandBrake-gui package from rpmfusion can
read the backup images and extract and transcode videos.
If it is an external USB dvd drive, beware of:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822948