[Liverpool] Backing up video DVD's

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:36:05 +0100, Sebastian Arcus wrote:

> > This sounds like one of those horrible systems that use deliberate
> > errors to prevent their working in DVD-ROM drives.  
> 
> Yes, I seem to recall that is the way they do it. It is still strange 
> that it can play ok through xine or vlc. Maybe playback software is 
> designed to just ignore/skip corrupted sectors - so this way they are 
> not affected.

Does mplayer play it? If you just want the main title, not the whole DVD,
you could use mplayer -dumpstream.


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Neil Bothwick

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