[Cialug] Naïve DVD question

[Afan Pasalic]

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> I need to make a copy of a video DVD. It is only about 25 minutes and my 
> current copy is on a DVD-R so i know it will fit on regular media. But, 
> i've never tried copying a DVD before. I've found instructions on how 
> to rip one and re-encode it for smaller size, but i don't want that. I 
> want an identical copy.
>
> Can i treat a video DVD like a data CD and just use dd to rip an image 
> and then cdrecord to burn it to disc? Or is it more like an audio CD 
> that requires more specialized software to rip (i usually use 
> cdparanoia for CDs)?
>
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I use K9copy to "squeeze" DVD (movie) to regular DVD. It works fine.  As 
far as I know, the compression (shrink factor) depends of the size of 
the DVD (movie) and it's smaller if the movie is smaller. I'm almost 
positive if you have DVD with 2GB content only, it will not shrink it at 
all, just make a copy.

Afan