Playing DVD drive

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>>>>>> Any console or ncurses based dvd ripping program? I found everything
>>>>>> related to "DVD RIP" to be graphical mode...
>>>>>>
>>>>> dd
>>>>>
>>>> That won't work unless the DVD is not encrypted. ;)
>>> It works fine on encryupted DVDs for me.  I used it as recently as
>>> yesterday.
>>>
>> But can it be reliable? dd doesn't perform any integrity checks, does
>> it? I was under the impression that's why there are CD rippers. Don't
>> know about DVD, but it's probably not easier. Am I wrong?
> 
> dd has *always* worked for me.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never thought of dd as a "ripping" 
program. To me, ripping means extracting specific information (music 
tracks, scenes, features) to a file. Whereas I've always used dd as a 
way to grab a bitstream from a device without much regard to the content 
or format.

Exactly how would you do that with dd?

Thanks,
Michael