urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:nospamat Born on the First of July! Walt Manitoba 2007-07-18T23:42:09Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:nospamat:25100 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2007-07-18T23:42:09Z <b>Difficulty:</b> If you were able to install Linux, you can do this.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><b>Prerequisites</b><br /><ul><li>An environment in which Linux binaries can run (e.g. a computer with Linux installed)<br /><li>The following programs and their dependencies installed:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://k3b.plainblack.com/">K3b</a><br /><li><a href="dvd-create.sf.net">dvdbackup</a></ul><li>Up to about 9 GB hard drive space for one DVD<br /><li>Copyright ownership of any encrypted copyrighted materials you will be copying (<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/">U.S.</a>)<br /></ul><br /><b>Instructions</b><br /><br />On my hard drive, I'll use <code>/home/dvds</code> as my DVD storage directory.<br /><ol><li>On the command line:<br /><ul><li><code>cd /home/dvds</code><br /><li><code>dvdbackup -M -i /dev/dvd -o .</code></ul><br /><li>Enjoy a segment of <i><a href="http://www.stellacomedy.com">Stella</a></i> while waiting for <code>dvdbackup</code> to finish.<br /><li>Open K3b. In K3b:<br /><ul><li>Create a new DVD Video Project.<br /><li>In the upper "file browser" pane, navigate to <code>/home/dvds</code>. <code>dvdbackup</code> will have created a new directory there. Enter it.<br /><li>Replace the <code>VIDEO_TS</code> folder in the lower "project" pane with the <code>VIDEO_TS</code> in the upper pane.<br /><li>Burn Project. The subsequent dialog box presents the option to burn to image only. Executing with that option will write an <code>iso</code> file to your hard drive, playable by <a href="http://videolan.org">VLC</a> and others. In that case, you need another ≤9 GB free.<br /><br />Otherwise, once it's time to burn, K3b will tell you whether a spendy dual-layer DVD is needed.</ul><br /><li>Delete the directory <code>dvdbackup</code> created to reclaim the hard disk space it occupies.</ol>