Copy an Encrypted DVD
Copying consists of ripping followed by burning. Copying an encrypted DVD is not illegal if you own the copyright. Since their inception DVDs have been encrypted with CSS and since with varying levels of encryption. All have been circumvented, partly because apart from CSS, other encryptions are not part of the official DVD standard. Apart from that, there is nothing special about DVD-Movie discs, they are simply a collection of files. VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS structure with valid VOB, BUP and IFO files.
Steps
- Decrypt the DVD. Ensure decryption software is running when you perform the ripping. Often this is a combined application to decrypt and rip.
- Linux has libdvdread4
- Windows has AnyDVD, DVD 43, DVDFab and DVD Decrypter.
- Rip the DVD. Rip it to your hard disk as an image file first so you don't waste a blank disc that might not work.
- dd if=/dev/dvd of=/DESTINATION_FILE
- Linux has k9copy, dd, dvdbackup, dvd::rip, Thoggen, Handbrake.
- Windows has DVD Shrink, Handbrake.
- Test the result in VideoLan Client (VLC).
- Burn the result to disc. Or copy to iPod or other device.
- Windows has Nero Burning ROM, InfraRecorder, ImgBurn, DeepBurner etc.
- Linux has cdrtools which is command-line but many GUI tools are based on this such as K3b.
- Mac has Roxio Toast. (Or Built In Disk Utility Works Absolutely Fine).
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