[mythtv-users] MythDVD deletes files after ripping
Larry Finger
Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Thu Apr 16 17:18:55 UTC 2009
Ronald Frazier wrote:
> No, MTD handles the coordination of the ripping and transcoding as
> well as providing progress updates to the frontend.
>
> If it failed to read, then either the disc is bad/dirty, you had a
> random error (sometimes taking the DVD out and putting it back in
> solves it), or there is bad block copy protection on the disc. In my
> experience, it's usually the latter. I don't know what the best way of
> handling it is. I just go to the command line and rip it to an iso
> file using:
>
> /sbin/ddrescue -n -b 2048 /dev/cdrom /path/filename.iso /path/filename.log
>
> That doesn't help if you want to rip individual tracks. You could
> probably mount the iso somehow, then use the frontend to rip the
> track, but I'm not sure what the correct way to do that would be
Make a mount point
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disk
Mount the iso on that mount point
sudo mount -o loop /path/filename.iso /mnt/disk
The iso is now available just as if you were referring to the CD/DVD.
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