So is there a good tutorial somewhere on how to combine all the pieces you two have mentioned in order to come up with a working copy of a dvd movie? I have no problems using DVDShrink, it's dead easy, but takes about 1.5 hours on my AMD XP64 3000+. Do I need to string these tools together in a script or something?

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Luke-Jr wrote: | Already exists. I don't imagine it would be a huge project to get K3b to | support it. To shrink, use tcrequant (part of transcode). To rip, use | dvdbackup (probably many other options, incl K3b).

I use dvdbackup, and it's not as good as DVD Decrypter. If you have a good DVD, dvdbackup works great. If, however, you have enough scratches or other damage to cause bad sectors, dvdbackup barfs and errors out. DVD Decryptor, on the other hand, keeps going and replaces the bad sectors (with zeros, I think), so you can at least get all the readable info off your DVD (important when you have 2 year old twins who have figured out the eject button on the DVD player!).

It annoys me I have to use a windows program to 'rescue' my damaged DVDs, but I have yet to find anything on linux that handles read errors effectively.

- -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected]