From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 20:30:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199E71065673 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 20:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997828FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 20:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p5B22C83E.dip.t-dialin.net [91.34.200.62]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p12K7k1r030272; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 20:07:47 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p12K7h7O060339; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:07:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p12K7c98029193; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:07:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201102022007.p12K7c98029193@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Alexander Best From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:54:41 GMT." <20110202195441.GA39963@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:07:38 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for a fast way to dump a dvd to a file on my hdd X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:30:28 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: Alexander Best > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:54:41 +0000 > Message-id: <20110202195441.GA39963@freebsd.org> Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i'd like to copy several dvds to my hdd. however my attempts so far haven't > really been that successfull. basically using dd(1) is just way too slow. What sort of DVD ? Normal file system ? If so, I have no comment on speed. Exxcept that I think bs=32k is normal ? If Hollywood specially crippled movies with deliberate bad sectors or whatever latest tricks theyre up to, maybe thats slowing the drive, with retries, in which case you might want eg vobcopy -b > so far dd(1) with a bs=2048 finished after: Ah ..................^^^^^^^^^ Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context.