Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:31:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: Your Name <bg271828@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying DVD's for HD playback Message-ID: <20050525112331.U47072@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050525144945.98509.qmail@web53409.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050525144945.98509.qmail@web53409.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hmmm...that's a really interesting question... On my Powerbook (I know, not the same thing...), I rip the DVD to a disc image, then mount the disc image and play back from that. You could use readcd on your DVD and rip it to a .iso file. You could also just do dd if=/dev/mydvdblockdevice of=~/mydvd.iso , however you need to be aware that the latter will be every bit of 4.5GB whether the movie is 2 minutes or 2 hours, because you're copying everything, whether it's blank or has data. Once you have your iso, then we can focus on playing back from the .iso image. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=628815 Look at Section 2, Question 4B. Tells you step by step what to do from there. Let us all know how it goes. :) Be warned that the method I use on my Mac for generating the disc image, and the actual image file I use (.dmg, not .iso) are very different from what I've suggested about, but the premise is still the same. Good luck! Tony On Wed, 25 May 2005, Your Name wrote: > i can play DVD's fine using mplayer. i can also copy > them fine by using "cp -r" and i get a bunch of files > and the > .vob ones i can play with mplayer and i don't know > what the .bup or .ifo ones are but it doesnt seem to > matter. > > But the files dont play together --i cant skip from > chapter to chapter this way, or use the menus. > > Is there a way to copy a DVD to a HD so that its just > like the whole DVD, but on the HD? > > This is just so i can watch movies on a plane without > burning through my whole battery. > > Thanks. > > Jen > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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