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vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to harddisk, decrypting (if you have libdvdcss installed) them on the way (thanks to libdvdread and libdvdcss) and merges them into file(s) with the name extracted from the DVD. It checks for enough free space on the destination drive and compares the copied size to the size on DVD (in case something went wrong during the copying). vobcopy without any options will copy the first title into files of 2GB size into the current working directory. There is one drawback though: at the moment vobcopy doesn't deal with multi-angle-dvd's. But since these are rather sparse this shouldn't matter much.

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Building instructions:

Installation

  make install    installs vobcopy in /usr/local/bin and the man page to /usr/man/man1.

The

Usage

Options include

• -n copy the title-vob you specify behind -n (vobcopy -n 2 will copy title-vob 2)
• -b size[bkmg] begins to copy from the specified offset-size. Modifiers like b for 512-bytes, k for kilo-bytes, m for mega- and g for giga-bytes can be appended to the number. Example: vobcopy -b 500m will start to copy from 500MB onward till the end.
• -e size[bkmg]: similar to -b, this options lets you specify some size to stop before the end.
• -l rosenauer wrote some code to support large file output. The data is then written to one large file (presumably greater than 2GB)
• -f to force output even if vobcopy thinks there is not enough free space in the output directory
• -i to provide the path to the mounted dvd (i.e. the mount point, something like /dvd or /cdrom) if vobcopy fails to detect it correctly
• -o option to specify a directory where the data will be copied to
• behind -1, -2, -3 and -4 can be named additional directories where the output will continue if the previous dir gets full. So no need to clean up the whole directory or even move files around!
• -t name|stdout you can either change the name of the output-file away from what the dvd says (-t hi will write hi1-1.vob,hi1-2.vob etc. If you want to have a name with spaces, do it like this: -t "my movie" ) or you can write the output to stdout to be piped to some other program (for example: -t stdout)
• -O single_file(s)_name(s) will copy only the files you specify (comma separated list).Example: vobcopy -O video_ts.vob,video_ts.bup
• -I (Info) gives you some Infos about the dvd data and the output directory.
• -v be more verbose in its output (in other words vobcopy will spam your console ;-)
• -v -v print a log-file (with the standard output in it) to /tmp/ (the log should be sent to me in case of a bugreport)
• check in advance if on the drive the stuff has to be copied to is enough space free
• check size of the combined vobs on dvd against what has been copied (did it copy everything ok?)
• check the provided command line options whether they are what we need and not wrong type

• more documentation...

For debian users: see on the right or for an automatic upgrade, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add: A new source for deb packages was sent to me, many thanks to Kristine Daniels:
deb http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/pakrat/debian unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/pakrat/debian unstable main
The following two are __very__ unreliable...
deb http://hyperion.homelinux.org/debian sid main
deb-src http://hyperion.homelinux.org/debian sid main
#in case the above is down this here _should_ work (doesn't at the moment)
deb http://lpn.rnbhq.org/debian sid main
deb-src http://lpn.rnbhq.org/debian sid main

So, I hope it works for you as nicely as it does for me and give me some feedback to: robos@muon.de

If you wonder now what to do with your ripped vob files, take a look at this: Moritz Bunkus made a howto "dvdripping4linux" in which he also features vobcopy.