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Many commercial DVDs are encrypted, in order to disable making copies, even for backup etc. This is unacceptable. To copy encrypted DVDs in GNU:

<ol> <li>Install libdvdcss <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b># wget &mdash;output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list<br /> # apt-get &mdash;quiet update<br /> # apt-get &mdash;yes &mdash;quiet &mdash;allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring<br /> # apt-get &mdash;quiet update # apt-get &mdash;yes install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu<br /> # aptitude install libdvdcss2 w64codecs</b></td></tr></table></li> <li>Briefly start playback of the DVD with mplayer, it'll open the DVD with the libdvdcss keys etc.: <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b>$ mplayer dvd://</b></td></tr></table> Exit the playback, after it starts.</li> <li>Now you can backup the DVD with dd to an ISO-file: <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b>$ dd if=/dev/sr0 of=dvd-backup-image.iso</b></td></tr></table></li> </ol> <!— Page published by Emacs Muse ends here —> </div> <i>To send me feedback about this page, use the below email.</i><br /> <b>&copy; sumoudou.org 2010</b><br /> <img style="border:0" alt="sumoudou.org" src="email.gif" width="129" height="10" /><br /> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="GNU" src="powered-by-gnu.png" />]] <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="GNU Emacs" src="made-with-emacs.png" />]] <a href="http://hcoop.net/" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="HCoop" src="hcoop-proud-member.png" />]] <a href="http://hcoop.net/" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="HCoop" src="hosted-by-hcoop.png" />]] <a href="http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="Emacs Muse" src="made-with-muse.png" />]] <a href="http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="Emacs Muse" src="powered-by-muse.png" />]] <br /> <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="Ogg" src="play-ogg.png" />]] <a href="http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="Glider" src="glider.png" />]] <a href="http://ubuntu.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="Ubuntu" src="ubuntu.png" />]] <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!" src="valid-xhtml10-blue.png" />]] <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="border:0" alt="Valid CSS!" src="valid-css-blue.png" />]] <br />Last updated 2009-12-13-012000 </div> <br />. </body> </html>