I haven't had the need to copy a DVD in over a decade and the last time I did it was probably under OS X, possibly even Windows, using some commercial tool. But recently my stepfather came to me with a DVD that had been made from a home video that he wanted several copies of. It is not copy protected in any way, just a plain DVD video disk. I have an external USB DVD drive which seems to work okay, but honestly I barely use it for anything. I tried using Brasero but it seems to read the disk quickly at first and then become progressively slower and slower until it gets to 99% and then stays there for hours and hours. I used the dvdbackup command line program and was able to make a backup and burn it with growisofs with no problem so I'm not sure why Brasero didn't work. Does anyone have any recommendation for a simple GUI DVD copying tool? I'm not worried about breaking copy protection here. I'm fine with the command line tools but I do this so infrequently that it would be nice to have a GUI app that doesn't require me to look up notes or search the internet for instructions to refresh my memory the next time I want to do this in 2036.
On 12Feb2020 22:13, Kevin Becker kevin@kevinbecker.org wrote:
I haven't had the need to copy a DVD in over a decade and the last time I did it was probably under OS X, possibly even Windows, using some commercial tool. But recently my stepfather came to me with a DVD that had been made from a home video that he wanted several copies of. It is not copy protected in any way, just a plain DVD video disk. I have an external USB DVD drive which seems to work okay, but honestly I barely use it for anything. I tried using Brasero but it seems to read the disk quickly at first and then become progressively slower and slower until it gets to 99% and then stays there for hours and hours. I used the dvdbackup command line program and was able to make a backup and burn it with growisofs with no problem so I'm not sure why Brasero didn't work. Does anyone have any recommendation for a simple GUI DVD copying tool? I'm not worried about breaking copy protection here. I'm fine with the command line tools but I do this so infrequently that it would be nice to have a GUI app that doesn't require me to look up notes or search the internet for instructions to refresh my memory the next time I want to do this in 2036.
Why not just dd it? DVDs have a block size of 2048 bytes, BTW, so any multiple of that should be efficient, eg:
dd if=/dev/the-dvd-device of=my-dvd-image.iso bs=64k progress=status
That should get you a pretty direct indication of the copy speed. And then you can dd the ISO onto another DVD, or mount it or whatever.
Cheers, Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:13:29 -0500 Kevin Becker kevin@kevinbecker.org wrote:
I haven't had the need to copy a DVD in over a decade and the last time I did it was probably under OS X, possibly even Windows, using some commercial tool. But recently my stepfather came to me with a DVD that had been made from a home video that he wanted several copies of. It is not copy protected in any way, just a plain DVD video disk. I have an external USB DVD drive which seems to work okay, but honestly I barely use it for anything. I tried using Brasero but it seems to read the disk quickly at first and then become progressively slower and slower until it gets to 99% and then stays there for hours and hours. I used the dvdbackup command line program and was able to make a backup and burn it with growisofs with no problem so I'm not sure why Brasero didn't work. Does anyone have any recommendation for a simple GUI DVD copying tool? I'm not worried about breaking copy protection here. I'm fine with the command line tools but I do this so infrequently that it would be nice to have a GUI app that doesn't require me to look up notes or search the internet for instructions to refresh my memory the next time I want to do this in 2036.
Like you, I haven't burned a DVD in a while, but I used the program k3b to do so the last time I did, and it worked fine. I have brasero installed as well, so next time I'll give it a try to see if it will work for me.
I wonder if your external drive had a power issue; mine is internal. Or, maybe the lense needs cleaning with some isopropyl alcohol, using a q-tip or cotton ball.
On 2/12/20 7:13 PM, Kevin Becker wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendation for a simple GUI DVD copying tool? I'm not worried about breaking copy protection here. I'm fine with the command line tools but I do this so infrequently that it would be nice to have a GUI app that doesn't require me to look up notes or search the internet for instructions to refresh my memory the next time I want to do this in 2036.
I've just used "vobcopy" in the past for the rare occasions that I've needed it. There was a program called k9copy that I had used way back, but it seems to be retired now. The last successful build was: http://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=8011 No guarantees that it will even run with a current release.
It's a brand new drive, and it worked with the command line dvdbackup tool. But, that doesn't mean it doesn't have some sort of problem. I'll take a look at k3b as well, thanks.
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:13:29 -0500 Kevin Becker kevin@kevinbecker.org wrote:
I haven't had the need to copy a DVD in over a decade and the last time I did it was probably under OS X, possibly even Windows, using some commercial tool. But recently my stepfather came to me with a DVD that had been made from a home video that he wanted several copies of. It is not copy protected in any way, just a plain DVD video disk. I have an external USB DVD drive which seems to work okay, but honestly I barely use it for anything. I tried using Brasero but it seems to read the disk quickly at first and then become progressively slower and slower until it gets to 99% and then stays there for hours and hours. I used the dvdbackup command line program and was able to make a backup and burn it with growisofs with no problem so I'm not sure why Brasero didn't work. Does anyone have any recommendation for a simple GUI DVD copying tool? I'm not worried about breaking copy protection here. I'm fine with the command line tools but I do this so infrequently that it would be nice to have a GUI app that doesn't require me to look up notes or search the internet for instructions to refresh my memory the next time I want to do this in 2036.
Like you, I haven't burned a DVD in a while, but I used the program k3b to do so the last time I did, and it worked fine. I have brasero installed as well, so next time I'll give it a try to see if it will work for me.
I wonder if your external drive had a power issue; mine is internal. Or, maybe the lense needs cleaning with some isopropyl alcohol, using a q-tip or cotton ball. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
On 13/02/2020 16:00, Kevin Becker wrote:
It's a brand new drive, and it worked with the command line dvdbackup tool. But, that doesn't mean it doesn't have some sort of problem. I'll take a look at k3b as well, thanks.
k3b > Tools > Copy medium > Only create image
k3b > Tools > Burn image (has multi-copy and verify options)
used to work for me from DVD +/- R, but commercial pressings may be too big or have copy-defeat features
John P
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 03:14, Kevin Becker kevin@kevinbecker.org wrote:
I haven't had the need to copy a DVD in over a decade and the last time I did it was probably under OS X, possibly even Windows, using some commercial tool. But recently my stepfather came to me with a DVD that had been made from a home video that he wanted several copies of. It is not copy protected in any way, just a plain DVD video disk. I have an external USB DVD drive which seems to work okay, but honestly I barely use it for anything. I tried using Brasero but it seems to read the disk quickly at first and then become progressively slower and slower until it gets to 99% and then stays there for hours and hours. I used the dvdbackup command line program and was able to make a backup and burn it with growisofs with no problem so I'm not sure why Brasero didn't work. Does anyone have any recommendation for a simple GUI DVD copying tool? I'm not worried about breaking copy protection here. I'm fine with the command line tools but I do this so infrequently that it would be nice to have a GUI app that doesn't require me to look up notes or search the internet for instructions to refresh my memory the next time I want to do this in 2036.
xfburn does the job. It's one of those 'Does exactly what it says on the
tin' jobs. I've used all burning GUI utilities for linux, the best non-coaster producer was Nero4Linux (I bought it). Nothing else came close, except xfburn. I've probably done something like 1000+ easy.
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