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cuban
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 Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:14 pm Post subject: Burning DVDs |
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I know NO one is going to believe this, but here it goes:
When using Windows I used to burn my DVD movies to DVD-R's or +R's so I could take them with me on buisness/road trips (I started doing this after I brought about 5 of my DVDs (originals) with me and all but one got destroyed). In windows I used an application called DVDXCOPY. Is there anything like this (or even a procedure) in Linux? It sucks having to boot back to my Windows partition I've created just for burning these DVDs.
Any tips would be appreciated.
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Atom Smasher
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| This is a very good question. A dvdxcopy or clonedvd for linux would work well. Anybody know of such a monster? |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| I'd also love something like this. The only reason I have a windows box anymore is for dvd uhh..backups. The hard part of the software is the compression part of course. Once 9 gig dvd-r's are out and common I'm sure dvd burning with Linux will be a breeze. |
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cuban
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I guess I can settle for ripping the DVD to my laptop harddrive. Especially since they are just temporary.
How can I do this? I'd like to keep it original quality if possible.
Shit even DVDXCOPY working in WINE would satisfy me.
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Helper_Monkey
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You can rip dvds with dvdrip (wow rip dvds with a program called dvdrip, who would have thunk it:). Its in portage, just emerge it, it's pretty easy.
I don't know anything about copying dvds, but i assume that it can't be that hard.
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rob512
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| i second trying out dvd::rip. it's a front end for transcode. i played with it last week and it worked nicely. |
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blueworm
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I am yet to purchase a dvd burner. At the moment I think the quality of xvid and divx5 is so high that most movies can be ripped to a 700Mb cd-r with a negligable loss of quality... cd-r are way cheaper. Downside is that ripping them takes a while...
Nevertheless dvd also need to be ripped to fit on a 4.7Gb dvd-r... |
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cuban
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| blueworm wrote: | I am yet to purchase a dvd burner. At the moment I think the quality of xvid and divx5 is so high that most movies can be ripped to a 700Mb cd-r with a negligable loss of quality... cd-r are way cheaper. Downside is that ripping them takes a while...
Nevertheless dvd also need to be ripped to fit on a 4.7Gb dvd-r... |
But how do you play divx on your home dvd player? 
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blueworm
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| cuban wrote: | | But how do you play divx on your home dvd player? |
I dont! I have a gentoo pc connected to tv specially for this purpose.
Besides divx/xvid compatible standalone dvd players have really come down in price lately
under 100 EURO... |
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beowulf
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If you are a K3B user, the latest and greatest has dvd burning and copy features.... I've never used it as I don't have a dvd player, let alone a dvdwriter.
The current version that I have is k3b 0.10.1
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge k3b -p
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Just checked portage, and there's a new version 0.10.2 (you'll need parts of kde to be installed though...)
hope this helps
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