Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jonathan Allen wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I need to duplicate some DVDs that I have just mastered. Using a FC4 >> machine, k3b won't do it - it reads 2Mb then complains and won't eject >> the disk without a manual 'eject' call. How can I simply duplicate >> a straightforward video DVD that I have just created myself ? >> > > Assuming you have the ISO image you created, just burn it: > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=my-dvd.iso > > In general GUI tools which do little but call command line tools make it > hard to get to the features of the command line tools :-( > > On the other hand, I wish I could find a tool which simplified taking > 15-20 short training clips and making them into a DVD (or SVCD) with a > title and blurb for each one. XML is a great language for computers, not > humans. > > If you have no image, but a DVD, just read the ISO back to disk. Use > "isoinfo -d -i /dev/dvd" and note the number of blocks, then dd the info > to a file: > dd if=/dev/dvd bs=2k count=BLOCKS_FROM_ISOINFO of=my-dvd.iso > > All pretty simple from command line. > k9copy is a great DVD copying tool. I think there's an RPM for it in Extras or from the download site for it. It works very well. DVDStyler is great for automating a lot of video clips into DVD format along with a fairly straightforward menu building system. It may not be a comprehensive as some pay packages, but it works well for me. -- Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est. Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415
