On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mike Branda wrote:
> Mario Lombardo wrote:
>> I'm enjoying copying my DVD movies onto my laptop so that I needn't
>> worry about them being damaged. However, copying a full DVD takes up
>> a lot of space, sometimes in the neighborhood of 7GB or greater.
>> Compression is great, but occasionally I wish to indulge in the
>> benefits of a full DVD, like trailers, director narratives, extra
>> features and the likes.
>>
>> How can I preserve the full DVD content, menu intact, while having the
>> portability of excellent compression as with some codecs?
>>
>> /mario
>
> Not the first clue about DVD ripping... but if you're trying to preserve the
> DVD intact _exactly_ , why not an .iso? I think there are players (mplayer
> maybe?) that can play back from an .iso file. Then everything would be just
> as it is on the disc.
Do "losetup /dev/loopX file.iso" and then you can access your iso file the
same as if it were a physical disk, except on /dev/loopX instead of
/dev/hdY. So any player can do that.
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