"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> writes:
On 06/09/2019 11.16, Berthold Höllmann wrote:
I prefer watching video DVDs by first creating an ISO file (UDF filesystem data (version 1.5)) on disk and using the ISO file with mplayer.
For some time I simply used 'cat'. Because I do this quite often, and sometimes the discs are scratched I wrote a script the first uses 'mplayer' to unlock the DVD drive for reading the encrypted and then uses 'ddrescue -b 2048 -r 1 -v /dev/sr0 out.iso mapfile' and more forward and backward scans of the disc utilizing 'mapfile' in an attempt to rescue more of the content from scratched discs. It did work quite nice for some time (I think the script is from 2015) for lots of discs, but got worse and worse in the last few months. And no, ddrescue does not work on encrypted discs prior to using libdvdcss2 on the disc (mplayer has to run every time the DVD drive slide has closed, before any kind of success is achieved using dd, readcd, or ddrescue).
I don't have a freshly purchased DVD to try, but what about using a tool such as "dvdrip"? Or HandBrakeGUI?
readcd does work.