Problems ripping DVDs I legally own to my media server

[john wendel]

On 01/04/2010 06:32 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On Monday 04 January 2010 20:59:36 Ian Pilcher wrote:
>> How do you do that with a CSS-encrypted DVD?
>
> He's merely copying the "scrambled" bits on the DVD to his hard-drive.  CSS
> has nothing to do in the actual copying.  There are, however, other techniques
> employed to make the copying really hard by regular tools (e.g. you'll need to
> ignore some errors etc...).
>
> Now, in order to play that iso file in your hard-drive (e.g. by mounting it
> with the loopback) you'll need  to use software to "unscramble" those bits.
> In order to do it legally on Linux you'll need to use "PowerDVD for Linux" as
> LinDVD I think is no longer available...
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
>


I have had good luck using the program "ddrescue" to copy DVDs with 
bad/weird sectors, mostly Chinese. Once you've copied it to disk as an 
iso file, VLC works well as a player.

Regards,

John