[tlug] Backing up DVDs

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

As I'm sure anyone with small children can attest, backing up all your
DVDs and keeping the originals under lock and key somewhere is a must.
I have, therefore, recently begun dabbling with dvdackup.  It pulls
the files off the DVD readily enough and creates a mirror of the
directory structure on disk,  The only hitch is that what I wind up
with is nearly 8 GB of stuff, and I have not yet found the right
magic document to tell me how to get this onto a 4.7 GB DVD blank.

On the other hand, k3b will do a point-n-drool backup, but when I
try to play the result, then DVD playing software doesn't like it.
Some will just die.  Others will show a scrambled stream.  The most
informative of the lot (I forget which one that was) complained
that it was encrypted.  So, something in the way k3b copies the
DVD leaves it undecryptable, or so it seems.

I'd prefer to do this from the CLI because it's more fun that way and faster
once you know what you're doing, but I won't turn up my nose at a way to
do it in k3b, either.  The main thing is to make sure little T and little
J don't turn any original DVDs into little pieces :-)

There are a number of Windows programs that say they will back up your
commercial DVDs to standard 4.7 GB DVD media, and k3b seems to try but
fail, so I know there must be a way to get it done, but googling has not
so far provided me with the right clue.  Ideas, anyone?

Tx,

Jonathan
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