Duplicating DVDs
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Mon Dec 4 14:59:25 UTC 2006
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.
>
k9copy is a great DVD copying tool. I think there's an RPM for it in
Extras or from the download site for it. It works very well.
DVDStyler is great for automating a lot of video clips into DVD format
along with a fairly straightforward menu building system. It may not be
a comprehensive as some pay packages, but it works well for me.
--
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
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