Re: [SLE] Backing UP Movie DVD's

From: Ti Kan (ti_at_amb.org)
Date: 09/25/04

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    fx fraipont writes:
    > The problem with the solutions that have been offered is that movie
    > dvd's are often longer than what a dvd-r will hold (4.7gb).
    >
    > One solution that works is to use wine and dvdshrink, a windows program
    > - but take care that anything after version 3.0beta does not work. I use
    > Codeweavers wine, the commercial version of wine. Dvdshrink well,
    > shrinks your dvd to 4.4gb using compression if necessary; you then burn
    > the resulting files onto a dvd-r using k3b. The result is very convincing.
    >
    > In a few cases, dvdshrink was not able to rip the dvd and I had to use
    > dvdbackunp (available from packman) - it's a command line program, but
    > works well.

    I got DVD-shrink 3.0 beta 5 to run under wine, was able to compress
    a movie DVD to 4.4GB, and then burned the resulting directories to
    a DVD-R using k3b. I am able to play it successfully with xine on Linux,
    but mplayer hangs. Also, I cannot play this DVD-R on a standalone Sony DVD
    player that's connected to my TV.

    Would this be a region problem? I noticed that the default for DVD-shrink
    is to set no region info, which AFAIK should be ok. Another thought is that
    k3b actually created a ISO9660 filesystem on the DVD rather than a UDF
    filesystem, and would this be a problem? I did check the "Use UDF
    structures" button in k3b, but I am not sure it actually did the right
    thing (it invoked growisofs to do its job).

    Any tips on making a DVD that's playable everywhere would be appreciated.

    -Ti 

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