Ripping DVD, patching it to be region free, and burning it

synthead · 2009-12-23 20:15:45

I can rip a dvd with dd and burn it with wodim, no prob, but how would I patch the iso so that the image is region free before I burn it? My girlfriend's roomate is giving a DVD to her dad that is not compatible with players in the US (released by the BBC in the UK), and she also wants to give him a copy that'll play in his DVD player with my help.

Rasi · 2009-12-23 21:29:36

synthead wrote:

I can rip a dvd with dd and burn it with wodim, no prob, but how would I patch the iso so that the image is region free before I burn it? My girlfriend's roomate is giving a DVD to her dad that is not compatible with players in the US (released by the BBC in the UK), and she also wants to give him a copy that'll play in his DVD player with my help.

install libdvdcss and use a proper ripping tool... e.g. k9copy

Nixie · 2009-12-23 21:33:43

how do you rip commercial dvd's with dd? I assumed the copy protection would prevent this.

Last edited by Nixie (2009-12-23 21:36:25)

tavianator · 2009-12-23 22:03:39

There's not really such a thing as functional copy protection for CDs or DVDs (Bluray is a different story). At the end of the day, it's just a bunch of bytes in some format or other. So if you copy them and then burn them to another disk, that disk will be the same.

Some disks put invalid bit patterns (patterns of bits that don't map to any byte; this is possible because CDs use a 14-bit/byte error-correcting code) in unused places, but you can always just skip those bytes if they cause problems. They never have for me, if I've ever come across it.

I assumed differently for a long time because dd always complained of I/O errors when I tried it. But eventually I figured out that my drive was just broken.

synthead · 2009-12-24 04:16:26

How would I patch an image to make the DVD region-free? Or is there a piece of software I can use?

muunleit · 2009-12-24 11:32:06

synthead wrote:

How would I patch an image to make the DVD region-free? Or is there a piece of software I can use?

Dvdshrink has the ability to do this, AFAIK.
But it is a windows program. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18936

tavianator · 2009-12-25 01:57:10

Or k9copy from extra.

synthead · 2009-12-25 19:42:16

I discovered that the DVD was also encrypted, so I ended up using DVD Decrypter on my Windows partition. Thanks for your guys' help.

I'll also look at k9copy, thanks

.:B:. · 2009-12-25 20:06:43

Nixie wrote:

how do you rip commercial dvd's with dd? I assumed the copy protection would prevent this.

It just copies the copy protection along, I think? It's only on playback that CSS comes into play.

synthead · 2010-01-02 21:21:43

B wrote:

Nixie wrote:
how do you rip commercial dvd's with dd? I assumed the copy protection would prevent this.
It just copies the copy protection along, I think? It's only on playback that CSS comes into play.

Yep I did have to crack the CSS encryption, and everything went well ... except for finding out that my DVD burner is actually defective, yuck ...

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Ripping DVD, patching it to be region free, and burning it

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