[mythtv-users] Dvd and blueray ripping

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Tue May 6 12:10:35 UTC 2014


On Mon, 05 May 2014 19:45:38 +0100, you wrote:

>>     DVDs are really trivial.
>>
>
>Agreed. Given how much disk space I have available these days I'm more 
>than happy to go straight to an iso. I find "dd if=/dev/dvd 
>of=title.iso" often works very well. Recently I've started using dcfldd, 
>which is a bit more reliable with better diagnostics. This approach has 
>worked for some box sets I have, but not for all.

dd is not the ideal tool for optical disks.  Try using readom instead
- it was designed for the job.  That is what I use for unprotected
DVDs.


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