Duplicating DVDs

[Bill Davidsen]

Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to duplicate some DVDs that I have just mastered.  Using a FC4
> machine, k3b won't do it - it reads 2Mb then complains and won't eject
> the disk without a manual 'eject' call.  How can I simply duplicate
> a straightforward video DVD that I have just created myself ?
> 

Assuming you have the ISO image you created, just burn it:
   growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=my-dvd.iso

In general GUI tools which do little but call command line tools make it 
hard to get to the features of the command line tools :-(

On the other hand, I wish I could find a tool which simplified taking 
15-20 short training clips and making them into a DVD (or SVCD) with a 
title and blurb for each one. XML is a great language for computers, not 
humans.

If you have no image, but a DVD, just read the ISO back to disk. Use 
"isoinfo -d -i /dev/dvd" and note the number of blocks, then dd the info 
to a file:
   dd if=/dev/dvd bs=2k count=BLOCKS_FROM_ISOINFO of=my-dvd.iso

All pretty simple from command line.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979