[gentoo-user] Re: Copying encrypted files from a DVD

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-05-16, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> On 16 May 2009, at 16:56, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2009-05-16, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why don't you use the (very old, but still effective) dd [1]
>>>>> command to create an ISO image?
>>>> ...
>> I've tried it numerous times, and it's never worked for me.
>>
>>> It WILL make an exact copy of the DVD onto the drive (assuming DVD
>>> video, and no ARccOS [1]), it will just be an exact copy of the
>>> *encrypted* movie.
>>
>> It's never worked for me.  I only get a fraction of the disk's
>> content followed by a lot of read/seek errors.
>
> That tends to indicate that you're using newer
> ARccOS-protected DVDs.  I have few of these & very many more
> that are more than 5 years old.  In this case I think you may
> have some success ripping using a newer SVN of mplayer (and
> the newer versions of dvdread dvdlib (??) which have been
> patched by the mplayer developers).

Yup. They've always worked fine with k9copy and xine (which
use libdvdread/libdvdcss/?).

-- 
Grant