vobcopy on breezy

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Matt Egger Wrote: 
> I've been using vobcopy & k3b in hoary and breezy with great success. 
> The way I get the vobs in the destination I want is to cd to that
> directory.  I use the following command:
> 
> vobcopy -m
> 
> I haven't had any problems with missign IFO files.  For DVD9 discs, I
> still use wine/DVDShrink to compress to DVD5.  I wish there was a
> simple native-linux solution.  Any suggestions?
> 
> -ME
> 
> This takes care of
> On 12/30/05, 'Forum Post <ulist (AT) gs1 (DOT) ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> > vobcopy in Breezy/Gnome - first time I've ever used it - made perfect
> > copy of a 4.0GB DVD5 music video (Free-All Regions) today in under
> > twenty minutes on a HP notebook. Yes, I know the thread's stale but
> > this may help other newbies too.
> >
> >
> >
> > vobcopy ignored my attempt to write output to an external FireWire
> > Seagate disk and dumped a 2.0GB or smaller *1-1.VOB then a *1-2.VOB
> > chunk onto my measly internal notebook IDE drive 8.0GB partition. In
> > terminal I'd typed
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Code:
> > --------------------
> >     vobcopy /media/cdrom1 /media/SEAGATE
> > --------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > which vobcopy seemed to interpret as input path from /dev/scd0
> > (external USB 2.0 Plextor DVD Recorder) so wonder if I'd used output
> to
> > /dev/sdb1 (vfat/FAT32, first primary partition on external disk)
> perhaps
> > it would have been more successful to avoid a subsequent copy IDE to
> > external drive.
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps someone in the forum can help wih the correct vobcopy command
> > layout (source, destination) as man doesn't help at all.
> >
> >
> >
> > Final question, now I've got two isolated VOB files on a hard drive
> > what can I do with them, for example how do I burn them in an image
> > file? Of course wine/DVD Shrink says missing VIDEO_TS.IFO so that's
> no
> > good, then K3b throws a similar message if try to burn an image as a
> > new DVD Project with just two VOBs. Feel a bit lost having always run
> > DVD Decrypter/DVD Shrink in Windows with no problem, and I want to
> > master this in Linux.
> >
> >
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> >
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ME, thanks for your prompt help.

cd'ed and did your vobcopy -m

Had a properly-formed VIDEO_TS hierarchy mirror image on the external
drive the way I wanted it in fifteen minutes flat. Now I'll try
wine/DVD Shrink afresh.

Chagrined to note the man vobcopy had it all and I completely missed it
>        -m, --mirror
> mirrors the whole dvd to harddisk. It will create a
> directory named after the dvd  and  copy the ifo, bup and vob files
> there. The title-vobs are decrypted during this.
> 

Happy New Year!


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daibak