[mythtv-users] DVD ISOs

[Charles Wright]

Look at ddrescue instead of dd.  I have many DVDs which my kids have
scratched, and it will retry on I/O errors and move on after some
point.  All the discs will rip, those with that have errors taking
quite a bit longer than those that don't.

Charles

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Richard Morton
<richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> thanks for the quick replies; here is what dd does:
>
> $ dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/richard/dd.iso
> dd: reading `/dev/sr0': Input/output error
> 54016+0 records in
> 54016+0 records out
> 27656192 bytes (28 MB) copied, 21.6068 s, 1.3 MB/s
>
> :(
>
> R
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