[mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus

[Dr. Doug L. Hoffman]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:16, Derek Scollon wrote:
> >> dd only works on DVDs without CSS. Even if you "unlocked" the DVD drive
> >> using xine, you would be able to copy the encrypted data from the DVD but
> >> not all of the information required to play a CSS encrypted DVD.
> 
> >> Tim
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> >> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Ziobro
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:17 PM
> >> To: Derek Scollon; Discussion about mythtv
> >> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD rip preserving menus
> 
> >>> I like being able to use DVD menus and skip from chapter to chapter, so
> >> I've just switched to xine and it's working great for DVDs. My next question
> >> is whether MythTV can rip DVDs preserving DVD menus and chapters. I've done
> >> this in Windows using a little program which makes perfect or compressed
> >> rips, then Cyberlink PowerDVD can play these directly from hard disk. I've
> >> been looking around but don't see how this is done in MythTV.
> >>> [snip]

You can make full disk copies that are unlocked using either vobcopy or
dvdbackup. They both will create a directory structure containing the
information from the original disk that you can point xine at to play.