Duplicating DVDs

[jim tate]

Mark Haney wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>   

Can a across the counter video/DVD that has copying potection be 
duplicated in Linux??

Jim