Copying DVDs

[Brian Mury]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:09 -0500, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>   I inserted an empty DVD-R. The drive kept spinning and making
> unusual noises, and the system did not recognize the presence of a
> disc. Does that mean that it can not write to DVD?

What is the output of "dvdrecord -prcap"?

>   When I open Fedora menu > Places > MY_DVD, I see two directories
> called AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. AUDIO_TS is empty, and VIDEO_TS contains
> the files VIDEO_TS.BUP, VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.VOB, VTS_01_0.BUP,
> VTS_01_0.IFO, VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, each of which is listed as
> having an unknown file type and an unknown modification date.

That's a DVD-Video disc (the standard format for DVD movies). It is
possible to copy if you do have a DVD burner.