Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 12:44:50 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 23:34 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote:
> > This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy
> > program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. so that
> > Antonio's last
> > comment becomes moot?
> 
> You should be able to do that with dd.

Up to a point. Commercial DVDs still won't work as the copy protection
schemes tend to use "illegal" (out-of-spec) formatting which look to the
driver like errors. At least it was that way last time I looked (a few
years ago admittedly).

poc



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