I’ve been using vobcopy and mkisofs to backup my video dvds. I came across one that didn’t work. so I used ddrescue -n -b2048 . This .iso file I could mount and play in vlc, but browsing the mounted iso showed me 66 Vobs that were 1024mb each. Obviously this is an error due to the fact that the size of the iso was 6.7GB and if those were the correct values my iso would be around 69GB.
Burning this iso to a disk resulted in a faulty disk with green, rubbish and skips.
I finally used Windows and downloaded the free dvdfab. This program left me with an iso with only VOB 15_xx having the large files, and burning to disk worked.
The medium played perfectly.
But Dvdfab is only good for 30 days and I have to use windows ( and for some reason I had to transfer the iso file across my samba network because windows wouldn’t let me copy a 6.7GB file to my 16GB empty flash drive, or my 8GB ones either).
I still have the messed up iso on my hard drive and was wondering if anybody knows a tool to get that iso to burn correctly. What kind of encryption is it when there are 66 VOBs reporting the same large number of MB. Thanks for any help. keep in mind I want to back these dvds up not rip them into mpeg, xvid etc…
oh and I’ve used dvd_backup, k3b copy medium…, k9copy, dvdshrink. I’ve used vobcopy and dvd_backup on the messed up iso from ddrescue and it tries to give me a dvd structure with a size of 69GB, which I cancel before it tells me I’ve run out of disk space.
Now at least I can copy it to my thumb drive. now back to my backup problem