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Why can't I copy my DVD with dd?
People mention that opening the DVD with VLC (which displays the DVD menu) magically makes the data accessible to dd, but nobody has yet explained why that is and how VLC accomplishes this feat.
I ...
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How to create a virtual ISO file from /dev/sr0
Turns out the solution was easy using 'mount --bind'.
The 'fake' ISO can be shared and VLC opens it like a DVD, with full menu support.
touch dvd.iso
sudo mount --bind /dev/sr0 dvd.iso
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Recovery of damaged DVD yielding "no medium found" error
Initial Disk Quality
Since we're not talking about a hard drive here, which can be recovered, you're sadly experiencing the reality that most consumer grade DVDs are NOT reliable.
A physical hard ...
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How do I burn a debian distribution ISO into a bootable disk using Fedora's command-line tools?
The Debian CD FAQ gives commands to use with a variety of CD/DVD writing tools. With wodim, the suggested command is
wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 -eject -sao debian-12.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Note that this ...
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Check if CD or DVD is blank
This worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic, may need to be tweaked for others:
alias dstat='/lib/udev/cdrom_id -d /dev/dvd 2>&1 | /bin/grep status'
⏵ dstat
hardware reported media status: ...
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How do I get DVDs to play in Debian?
The accepted answer is unfortunately now outdated. libdvdcss2 has been replaced by libdvd-pkg , which need to be installed using dpkg-reconfigure.
This tutorial details the step, but, in short, you ...
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What is the difference between Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot ISO and the same Binary DVD
Understanding the various RHEL .iso files
boot.iso
Used to install the operating system from another source
(such as a http repository of the binary files). Can also be used to
enter Rescue ...
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After burning an .iso to a dvd, is there any "free space" left on the dvd?
If you're not using a rewritable disk and if the writing has "finalized" as you say, then although there may technically be free space in that not all of the disk's capacity was used, this ...
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Check if CD or DVD is blank
Call cdrecord -v -minfo.
If you have more than one CD/DVD/BluRay drive, you need to specify a dev= parameter.
NOTE: the option -minfo (media info) has been introduced 12 years ago, so you need to ...
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Optical drive power settings: Wait longer before spinning down
As mentioned by sourcejedi, you can use sdparm to tweak the Power Condition page entries.
To see the current values, run sdparm -p po /dev/sr0 (or whatever your drive is). This will show the current ...
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How to rip a scratched DVD-Video? (a "cdparanoia for DVDs")
The other answers touch on the steps but each is missing something, so here's the full deal:
you need to run vlc to "unlock" the drive first, or some of the "read errors" are ...
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How to rip a scratched DVD-Video? (a "cdparanoia for DVDs")
I lack the reputation to add a comment, so sorry for answering on a thread with a marked answer.
Remark that optical drives have a live of its own due to error correction mechanisms and copy ...
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Why can't I copy my DVD with dd?
People mention that opening the DVD with VLC (which displays the DVD
menu) magically makes the data accessible to dd, but nobody has yet
explained why that is and how VLC accomplishes this feat.
I ...
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md5sum of /dev/sr1 different than ISO image?
When you do this kind of verification , md5sum or sha1sum you must be sure that your reading the same amount of data .
stat --printf '%s\n' file.iso
blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sr1
if the data does ...
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How to check that dvd-rw is erased?
You can use the dvd+rw-mediainfo command to see if your DVD is totally blank:
If the DVD is blank:
dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0 | grep status
Disc status: blank
If not:
dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/...
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ddrescue only recovers subset of DVD
I upgraded to the latest version of Clonezilla and ddrescue now produces the correct sized ISO.
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DD copy of DVD stops with read error at a fixed position
Creating some unused area in the middle of the media and then making it incorrect is one of oldest and widely used methods of copy protection. Valid player won't play this area, but if you attempt to ...
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Check if computer have a CDROM?
ls -l /dev/cdrom may show something like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 8 17:23 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
lsblk should show something like:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda ...
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How do I make a playlist for a DVD with several tracks/films on it?
go to VLC's "Playlist" interface (Ctrl+l, usually, else under "View").
Right click, "Advanced Open…".
In the opening dialog, select "Disk". Select DVD, enter ...
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Do DVD read/writers require drivers? Are they well supported in GNU/Linux?
Optical drives probably work out of the box on Linux, however very little data exists for which specific models have been tested.
Linux has built in drivers for optical drives via standard SCSI, ...
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Rip chapters of a DVD to separate files
As a script that uses lsdvd, Python, and ffmpeg to extract the Chapters in a DVD to the current directory (extract-chapters.sh):
#!/bin/sh
_genpy () {
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
lsdvd -x -Oy -...
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How to rip a scratched DVD-Video? (a "cdparanoia for DVDs")
I have had very good results with using car paste wax on the disc to get an emergency copy of the disc. I find that it might take 5 or 6 coats and buffs of wax to fill in the scratches, but once I got ...
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how to install jigdo tool in debian 10
Searching for "jigdo" in the packages list finds jigdo-file, so you should be able to use sudo apt-get install jigdo-file or sudo apt install jigdo-file.
Just a note: the Debian documentation now ...
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DVD reader able to read a zone 1 DVD only internally
In the beginning, the first computer DVD drives were so-called "RPC I" drives, which would let the CPU deal with large parts of the "regionalization stuff". This turned out to be ...
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Checking my DVD's current reading speed
Remove any disks from your CD/DVD drive.
Open your terminal and enter:
wodim -prcap
You should get outputs similar to:
Maximum read speed: 8468 kB/s (CD 48x, DVD 6x)
Current read speed: ...
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Can malware write to a completely blank dvd-r/+r?
I wouldn't exclude this possibility but it's kinda far-fetched, besides nowadays optical disks have almost completely lost their appeal and most laptops and even computers come without a DVD drive.
...
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brasero: Please replace the disc with a supported CD or DVD
The cdrskin run failed because you demanded -dummy with a medium
for which the drive cannot do a simulated burn run. This works only
with CD-R[W] and DVD-R[W].
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brasero: Please replace the disc with a supported CD or DVD
I tried growisofs and it worked just fine, would be nice to know what was the whole issue here.
% growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=7601.17514.101119-1850_x64fre_server_eval_en-us-GRMSXEVAL_EN_DVD....
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Can't create UDF disk in Linux with mkudffs
Via mkudffs you can format only block device with r/w access. So only DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, BD-RE. With support of packet writing pktcdvd.ko kernel module and pktsetup utility you can map CD-RW media to ...
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Looking for latest i386 DVD ISO download
i386, i.e. 32-bit x86, builds of CentOS are available as “alternative architecture” builds (“altarch” builds); see here for the installation images.
The “Everything” image contains all of CentOS, and ...
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