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transfer a DVD title to your harddisk with ease on Linux

Purpose

This tool copies all required files for a movie title from a DVD on your harddisk for further processing with libdvdreads image mode (e.g. transcode). It automatically selects the title with longest duration - but you can also pick a specific one. The tool determines the correct title set (VTS-VOB files) for the selected title, clones the navigation information (IFO files) and extracts (decodes) the data into new video object streams.

Download

Revision: 1.10 (19.1.2004) cpdvd-1.10.gz

• patch by Marc Bevand now parses fstab with empty lines

Revision: 1.9 (5.1.2003) cpdvd-1.9.gz

• added default support for cpvts
• added environment variable defaults DVD_MOUNT and DVD_DEV
• added Seven Over's contributions:
  • automounter support for DVD dir
  • autoprobe for DVD device
  • can use vobcopy for data transfer

Revision: 1.8 (31.3.2002) cpdvd-1.8.gz

• fixed case handling in filenames

Install

Unzip the file and place it in your bin path. Make sure you have installed Perl! You need at least transcode version 0.6.0pre4 and of course cpvts.

Usage

You simply give a target directory (will be created automatically) insert a DVD and that's all:

cpdvd MyMovie

You can then run transcode with the dvd import module (-x dvd) on this directory:

transcode -i MyMovie -x dvd ...

If your DVD device is not /dev/dvd or the DVD mount point is not /dvd then you must specify the following options:

cpdvd -d /dev/mydvddevice -m /my/dvd/mointpoint MyMovie

or set the DVD_MOUNT and DVD_DEV environment variables.

If you want to copy another title or the main title guess was wrong then you can pick a title with the -t option:

cpdvd -t 2 MyMovie

With the -i option you will receive information on all titles of a disc and the guess which title is the main title:

cpdvd -i

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