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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:08:29
Message-Id: 4eebb2ff.l7gR1XAPWEpz0Rr4%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups by Michael Mol
1 Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 > dvdbackup can recreate the ISO images, IIRC.
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5 No, dvdbackup just creates a readable mirror copy from the directory tree on
6 the DVD. You need to use mkisofs -dvd-video to create a new ISO image that can
7 be written to DVD.
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9 > If you run a simple 'dd' on a DVD with encrypted portions, you'll get
10 > I/O errors when it encounters the encrypted pieces. IIRC, some of the
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12 This is what I mentioned on the cdrecord mailing list already...
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14 > IIRC, dvdbackup makes use of libdvdcss to decrypt the encrypted
15 > portions[1], and writes a decrypted version of the data. *this* is why
16 > you can't make a bit-for-bit copy; the output data would be decrypted.
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18 dvdbackup decrypts the sectors that are part of the VOB files.
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20 > There are other, later obstacles, too; once CSS was broken, some
21 > content publishers (Bandai USA, for example) would fudge the ISO spec
22 > and the DVD nav specs in ways that didn't break *most* hardware DVD
23 > players, but did tend to break players which strictly adhered to the
24 > standards, such as ffmpeg, vlc and mplayer. It also broke dvdbackup
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26 This is interestingas some mkisofs users report that there are DVDs that look
27 as if there is a need to introduce negative padding between some files.
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29 Jörg
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32 EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
33 js@××××××××××××.de (uni)
34 joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/
35 URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>