Copying DVD's for HD playback

[Tony Shadwick]

Hmmm...that's a really interesting question...

On my Powerbook (I know, not the same thing...), I rip the DVD to a disc 
image, then mount the disc image and play back from that.

You could use readcd on your DVD and rip it to a .iso file.  You could 
also just do dd if=/dev/mydvdblockdevice of=~/mydvd.iso , however you need 
to be aware that the latter will be every bit of 4.5GB whether the movie 
is 2 minutes or 2 hours, because you're copying everything, whether it's 
blank or has data.

Once you have your iso, then we can focus on playing back from the .iso 
image.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=628815

Look at Section 2, Question 4B.  Tells you step by step what to do from 
there.  Let us all know how it goes. :)  Be warned that the method I use 
on my Mac for generating the disc image, and the actual image file I use 
(.dmg, not .iso) are very different from what I've suggested about, but 
the premise is still the same.  Good luck!

Tony

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Your Name wrote:

> i can play DVD's fine using mplayer. i can also copy
> them fine by using "cp -r" and i get a bunch of files
> and the
> .vob ones i can play with mplayer and i don't know
> what the .bup or .ifo ones are but it doesnt seem to
> matter.
>
> But the files dont play together --i cant skip from
> chapter to chapter this way, or use the menus.
>
> Is there a way to copy a DVD to a HD so that its just
> like the whole DVD, but on the HD?
>
> This is just so i can watch movies on a plane without
> burning through my whole battery.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jen
>
>
>
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