[Discuss] Backup DVD

[George Farris]

On Wed, 2006-27-09 at 00:56 -0700, Clint Rose wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've got some DVDs that form a video series that I need to backup.
> Each disc has two different videos on it, with a menu to access.  It
> is a full dual layer disc... so I can't just do a normal copy onto a
> normal DVD.  I have to resize it.
> 
> I have tried both dvdshrink for linux and dvd9to5.pl and both have had
> 50% success.  They both created a nice quality resized DVD... but with
> only one of the two videos on it.
> 
> My question:
> Is there a tool for linux that will get both of the videos on the
> disk, and still give me a choice between the two by way of a menu or
> something?  Or, even, rip each video separately, so that I can put
> each on one normal 4.7GB disc?
> 
> I know that I could go through all the steps listed here:
> http://kavlon.org/index.php/dvdbackup
> 
> I could also get DVD Shrink for windows, but I don't have a DVD
> reader/burner in my windows machine... and I don't wanna do that
> unless I have to.

DVDShrink for windows run great under wine just set your OS to WinNT or
it won't see the drive.

-- 
George Farris
farrisg at shaw.ca