Playing DVD drive

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> Net Llama! schrieb:
> > 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.
>
> Sure, dd creates an image of your DVD which you can play from hard disk
> with eg xine (xine dvd:///path_to_image). But when you try to burn the
> image to DVD again, you'll get a scrambled one - at least that's what I
> found for encrypted DVDs. Then you really need a decryption tool, as
> others have pointed out.

Sure, i just never need to burn the image to media.  All of my displays at
home play from the computer (semi-mythTV style).

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