Questions tagged [dvd]
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How can I mount a block device from one computer to another via the network as a block device?
Is it possible to export a block device such as a DVD or CDROM and make it so that it's mountable on another computer as a block device?
NOTE: I'm not interested in doing this using NFS or Samba, I actually want the optical drive to show up as a…
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How to burn iso image to DVD using dd command
I was looking at the command to burn iso image to a dvd. But I couldnt get the name of the device. In the /dev/ I could see cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw. I am using debian.
When I gave the command, I got the following output
dd…
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How to rip a scratched DVD-Video? (a "cdparanoia for DVDs")
I usually use the very nice and simple dvdbackup program to rip and backup my DVD-Video.
However some of my DVDs have a few scratches and my DVD drive has some trouble reading a few sectors. So, is there a tool similar to cdparanoia, but for DVDs?
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Why can't I copy my DVD with dd?
I tried dd, dd_rescue and ddrescue, all failed. I thought these tools bypass the filesystem and make a bitwise copy.
dd is fooled, it finishes but just produces a small file and states it's finished.
dd_rescuse and ddrescue are complaining about…
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What is the Linux equivalent of the Windows registry?
I have a DVD+-RW drive that has quit working. Apparently many users of this laptop model experience the same problem under windows and are required to edit the registry to correct the problem. So where should I look to make a similar edit?
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Is there a CD/DVD disk reading test tool for Linux?
When I was using DOS and Windows I've seen quite a selection of tools to check optical disks for readability and benchmark an optical drive itself. Most of them were even visualising the results in form of a pretty chart.
Are there any such for…
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CD disk not detected by Fedora on my Laptop
I rarely use cd's on my laptop, but I recall having the same problem a few months ago. When I put a cd in my DVD drive nothing happens. It kicked in last time without me doing anything but I don't know what's wrong. I need to burn a cd with k3b but…
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Creating UDF image in Linux
It's embarrassing to imagine that there are no intelligent tools on Linux to create UDF images, similar to makeisofs, but I have yet to find any. The tool genisoimage does work for creating video disk images, but there is no equivalent for general…
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Rip chapters of a DVD to separate files
I have a DVD with cartoons for kids and there are a couple of episodes on every one of them. How can I rip them such that every episode is in a separate file? I think every episode is written as a chapter within one title on the DVD.
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Read the title from a DVD?
I've noticed that each DVD image has a semi-unique uppercase name. Is there a standardized way for me to simply read this name as a non-root user in Linux? I'm on an Ubuntu 12.04 derivative running kernel 3.7. I'd like to simply get the name of any…
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Using MPV to play DVD movies
Beside VLC, very few dvd players have access to all DVD movie options, namely menus, and mpv is not one of them, but I use mpv to access external subtitles with DVDs and have started to appreciate very much this very simple and light and yet very…
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How to create a virtual ISO file from /dev/sr0
I want to create a virtual ISO file from /dev/sr0, without having to create an actual ISO file. The purpose is to share it to an Android device running VLC. Android/VLC is only able to open discs (with menu support, etc) as an ISO file.
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How to re-encode a DVD into a single file?
A DVD file layout has a directory named "VIDEO_TS" which contains a variety of files. These files can include multiple video and audio channels, subtitles, and menu structure (UI).
Is there a format than can contain all of these, but in a single…
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Check if CD or DVD is blank
I cannot mount a DVD, most probably because it is blank, so it contains no filesystem.
Is there a way to be sure that the disk is blank?
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How do I copy DVDs
Preamble:
We are down to the final stages for creating a school-play dvd. Editing is almost done, discs are printed and ready. Just need to burn the dvd's now. However, doing our pencil calculations, if we burned every disc with our production…
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