Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:07:38 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for a fast way to dump a dvd to a file on my hdd Message-ID: <201102022007.p12K7c98029193@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:54:41 GMT." <20110202195441.GA39963@freebsd.org>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> > 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.
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