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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Ripping problematic DVDs using dvdbackup and genisoimage</div>
  24       <div class="date">17th September 2011</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>For convenience, I want to store copies of all my DVDs on my file
  26 server.  It allow me to save shelf space flat while still having my
  27 movie collection easily available.  It also make it possible to let
  28 the kids see their favourite DVDs without wearing the physical copies
  29 down.  I prefer to store the DVDs as ISOs to keep the DVD menu and
  30 subtitle options intact.  It also ensure that the entire film is one
  31 file on the disk.  As this is for personal use, the ripping is
  32 perfectly legal here in Norway.</p>
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  34 <p>Normally I rip the DVDs using dd like this:</p>
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  36 <blockquote><pre>
  37 #!/bin/sh
  38 # apt-get install lsdvd
  39 title=$(lsdvd 2>/dev/null|awk '/Disc Title: / {print $3}')
  40 dd if=/dev/dvd of=/storage/dvds/$title.iso bs=1M
  41 </pre></blockquote>
  42
  43 <p>But some DVDs give a input/output error when I read it, and I have
  44 been looking for a better alternative.  I have no idea why this I/O
  45 error occur, but suspect my DVD drive, the Linux kernel driver or
  46 something fishy with the DVDs in question.  Or perhaps all three.</p>
  47
  48 <p>Anyway, I believe I found a solution today using dvdbackup and
  49 genisoimage.  This script gave me a working ISO for a problematic
  50 movie by first extracting the DVD file system and then re-packing it
  51 back as an ISO.
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  53 <blockquote><pre>
  54 #!/bin/sh
  55 # apt-get install lsdvd dvdbackup genisoimage
  56 set -e
  57 tmpdir=/storage/dvds/
  58 title=$(lsdvd 2>/dev/null|awk '/Disc Title: / {print $3}')
  59 dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o $tmpdir -n$title
  60 genisoimage -dvd-video -o $tmpdir/$title.iso $tmpdir/$title
  61 rm -rf $tmpdir/$title
  62 </pre></blockquote>
  63
  64 <p>Anyone know of a better way available in Debian/Squeeze?</p>
  65
  66 <p>Update 2011-09-18: I got a tip from Konstantin Khomoutov about the
  67 readom program from the wodim package.  It is specially written to
  68 read optical media, and is called like this: <tt>readom dev=/dev/dvd
  69 f=image.iso</tt>.  It got 6 GB along with the problematic Cars DVD
  70 before it failed, and failed right away with a Timmy Time DVD.</p>
  71
  72 <p>Next, I got a tip from Bastian Blank about
  73 <a href="http://bblank.thinkmo.de/blog/new-software-python-dvdvideo">his
  74 program python-dvdvideo</a>, which seem to be just what I am looking
  75 for.  Tested it with my problematic Timmy Time DVD, and it succeeded
  76 creating a ISO image.  The git source built and installed just fine in
  77 Squeeze, so I guess this will be my tool of choice in the future.</p>
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