Re: [tlug] Backing up DVDs

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 23:13:12 -0700, Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>
wrote:

> 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.

In short, you can't.

Mainstream DVD-writers (and media) are 4.7Gb efforts. You need a 9Gb writer
and media to be able to do that. Good luck finding that!

If you install libdvdcss (http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/),
dvdbackup will be able to descramble your original, css'ified DVD on the
fly. You'll still have to re-encode tha audio and/or video streams in order
to bring the size of the files down, though.

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