Keeping your DVD collection safe from scratches and curious children fingers while still having it available when you want to see a @@ -18,14 +18,17 @@ and genisoimage, but these days I use the marvellous python library and program python-dvdvideo written by Bastian Blank. It is -in Debian -already. Instead of trying to read every block from the DVD, it -parses the file structure and figure out which block on the DVD is -actually in used, and only read those blocks from the DVD. This -work surprisingly well, and I have been able to almost backup my -entire DVD collection using this method.
So far, python-dvdvideo -have failed on between 10 and 20 DVDs, which is a small fraction of my -collection. The most common problem is +in Debian +already and the binary package name is python3-dvdvideo. Instead +of trying to read every block from the DVD, it parses the file +structure and figure out which block on the DVD is actually in used, +and only read those blocks from the DVD. This work surprisingly well, +and I have been able to almost backup my entire DVD collection using +this method. + +So far, python-dvdvideo have failed on between 10 and +20 DVDs, which is a small fraction of my collection. The most common +problem is DVDs using UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 characters, which according to Bastian is against the DVD specification (and seem to cause some