<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">stephen</b> <<a href="mailto:mythmail@nb.sympatico.ca">mythmail@nb.sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Jesse Guardiani wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> How do I just rip an entire DVD (without transcoding) to disk
<br>> as a single file?<br>><br>> I don't want to rip it to multiple files, because then multiple<br>> files will show up in the Videos section for the same DVD. But<br>> I want everything, as DVD menus are necessary for some DVDs
<br>> (i.e. TV series, like CSI - you need the menu to jump around<br>> from show to show), and other special edition DVDs have all kinds<br>> of extras that I don't want to lose.<br>><br>> Any ideas?<br>>
<br>> Thanks!<br>><br><br>I use lsdvd ...<br><br>$ lsdvd /dev/cdrom<br>$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/videos/dir/[filename].iso<br><br>Works great.<br><br>Stephen</blockquote>
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<div>I just wrote a little script to do this tonight. I called it 'ripdvd'. It contains the following:</div>
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<div>mplayer <a href="dvd://1">dvd://1</a> &<br>dd if=/dev/dvd of=/video/mythvideo/$1.iso bs=2048 &</div><br>I just do 'ripdvd <MOVIE_NAME>' and it works great. The mplayer part is pretty kludgy, so I tried the lsdvd mentioned above. But I don't seem to have lsdvd in my distro (FC3), so I'll stick with mplayer for now and throw this out there for anyone else that might want to try it.
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<div>--g</div>