RMLCopyDVD
RMLCopyDVD
You've reached the home of RMLCopyDVD, a simple package containing a set of scripts and a configuration file that can be used to tie together many other packages and programs to copy a double-layer DVD onto single-layer DVD medium. This is useful for backing up your DVD discs to inexpensive single-layer DVD±R(W) media. Please view the on-line documentation for complete details about RMLCopyDVD.
You won't find much here for the time being. There is an RMLCopyDVD developers site also (many thanks to LinuxFromScratch and Bruce Dubbs for hosting the RMLCopyDVD Trac pages and Subversion repository), but there isn't much to see there either. However, the recently released tarballs of RMLCopyDVD are listed below.
Contact the author at <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> (sorry for the munging, blame the damn spammers)
July 21st, 2006 - rmlcopydvd-0.4.0.tar.gz [141,663 bytes] [md5sum - 438db0d628c1c1942bddc95f6a55cdc2] [See Changes]
March 20th, 2006 - rmlcopydvd-0.3.0.tar.gz [108,238 bytes] [md5sum - 479b4c9b5b721c67770fa9a5637ccae8]
March 14th, 2006 - rmlcopydvd-0.2.2.tar.gz [103,370 bytes] [md5sum - d4a616d69cf4bec0b1fec75f62e1a68a]
March 8th, 2006 - rmlcopydvd-0.2.1.tar.gz [99,960 bytes] [md5sum - 3052fbc392c6ef88aadd4b902df94e90]
March 7th, 2006 - rmlcopydvd-0.2.0.tar.gz [97,343 bytes] [md5sum - a3af463fc7668fe3b01aa28b51f830cd]
March 6th, 2006 - rmlcopydvd-0.1.2.tar.gz [94,922 bytes]
March 5th, 2006 - rmlcopydvd-0.1.1.tar.gz [94,305 bytes]
You can also check out the most current SVN version in the repository to a local directory on your computer with this command:
svn co svn://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/RMLCopyDVD/trunk rmlcopydvd
Note that you must build all the documentation and man pages before you can build the package using SVN checked out sources. Read the comments in the autogen.sh file for instructions.
To view the SVN sources on-line, visit: http://wiki2.linuxfromscratch.org/rmlcopydvd/browser
There are many. The whole purpose of this package is to provide a script that ties together 8-10 other packages. See the README file in the source tarball or the documentation for the complete list. One package in particular is worth mentioning however. If you're one of those that cringe at the idea of installing GTK-1 on your machine, you can stop reading right now. :-)
The dvd::rip package contains a Perl module that does a really good job of ripping DVDs. It has a graphical (though GTK-1) interface and will do much more than just rip DVDs. The biggest issue some folks have it seems is installing one of its dependency Perl modules, Gtk-Perl. Installation of this module is actually quite easy once you know the trick.
To install Gtk-Perl, you must have GTK-1 installed and then download it from CPAN: http://cpan.org/authors/id/M/ML/MLEHMANN/Gtk-Perl-0.7009.tar.gz
Then issue the following commands (the trick is adding the --...-force parameters to the 'perl Makefile.PL' command):
perl Makefile.PL --without-guessing \
--with-gdkimlib-force \
--with-gdkpixbuf-force
make
make test
make install
The parts of the Gtk-Perl package you need should now be installed. Though there are *many* other components of the Gtk-Perl package, including a complete GNOME-1 kit, you will probably never need them.
Device discovery is very weak at the moment. You may have to add your devices in the configuration file.
An HTML version of the only stuff there is: rmlcopydvd.shtml
2006-07-21 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.4.0 released * Added commands to the beginning of step 1 to remove any partial .vob files left behind by an unfinished vobcopy step 2006-07-20 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Modified the installation so that if a movie player is specified using --with-player, then the USE_PLAYER parameter is set in the configuration file * Added a configuration parameter so a user can be prompted to provide a volume label for the new DVD 2006-07-19 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Updates (mostly all cosmetic) to the autotools scripts 2006-07-18 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Moved all the script sources to a 'src' directory * Converted to use a file from the source tree as a completion message at the end of the installation 2006-07-17 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Moved all the documentation to a 'docs' directory * Added a parameter to configure to optionally change the docdir * Added a hack to bypass a situation in a two-DVD system where the burner device is not identified in /etc/fstab * Many modifications to remove redundant 'if' checks * Standardized the display of each step's output * Moved some error-checks to more appropriate locations in the script * Removed the displaying of unnecessary separator bars in between the steps * Changed instances referring to the dvd::rip program and replaced them with a generic 'the GUI' program. * Removed the 'Copyright_Notice' file from the distribution as it was only used in one file, which now uses a Copyright notice generated by the Makefile 2006-07-14 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Added a hack to bypass a specific 'mplex' error (frame data under-runs) that occurs at the end of multiplexing *some* DVDs * Modified configure.ac to require vobcopy >= 1.0.0 * Updated the 'grep's in the volume discovery name routines to use the new field created using the updated 'vobcopy' program. * Redirected the error output from several programs to a 'generic' error file located in the temp directory so that the 'elapsed time' file doesn't collect it (thanks, Dan!) * Clarified the explanatory text in the rc file about changing the value of the DVDRIP_PATHNAME variable. * Modified the vobcopy file directory path to use the directory specified by the DVDRIP_PATHNAME varibable * Unified the names of the initial .vob files created by the three different methods of creating it/them. * Added commands to the script to remove any .vob files that may conflict with the ones about to be written to disk * Added commands to delete the entire directory tree created if you use dvd::rip to create the initial .vob files * Clarified the ending text of each step of the process to indicate which step just finished 2006-03-20 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.3.0 released - Many new features 2006-03-19 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Modified the requantisization factor so that the modified video stream will be just a bit larger * Added a new parameter to the configuration file so you can modify the requantisization factor to any desired value, or be prompted for it during execution of the script * Added a check before the requantisization step so that if the video stream is not large enough to need it, the step is skipped. * Added "Testing touch" comments and commented "touch" commands to the script. These can be uncommented, with the actual commands in the script commented out, to test and/or debug the script * Minor changes/fixes/cleanups to the script and functions code * Many text cleanups in the comments of the script and configuration source files and in the README file 2006-03-18 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Changed bufsize value in the 'growisofs' command from 40m to 32m * Added a new parameter to the configuration file that can set a flag so that you are prompted about doing a simulated DVD-R(W) burn instead of a real burn * Added a parameter to the configuration file so that you can modify the options passed to the 'growisofs' command * Added additional parameters to the configuration file to allow additional tweaking of the 'mkisofs' command * Modified the content of some of the 'mkisofs' parameters so they more accurately describe their designed purposes * Echoed the actual commands used during the copy process to the screen if using VERBOSE_OUTPUT * Modified the elapsed time output so that only the time data goes into the elapsed time file, anything else is echoed to the screen * Added a parameter to the 'mkisofs' command so that all information is logged, and used redirection to divert output from 'growisofs' to a log file 2006-03-17 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Fixed the script so that it actually sets the 'umask' to the value specified in the configuration file 2006-03-14 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.2.2 released * Numerous documentation updates * Formatted the HTML documentation so that it is actually presentable now 2006-03-11 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Changed all instances of Randy's LFS email address to a mcmurchy.com address and munged them all 2006-03-08 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.2.1 released * Enabled the WORKFILE_NAME variable so that it actually works now * Documentation updates 2006-03-07 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Changed to using the 'eval' method to display the installation directories at the end of configuration, although I'm not thrilled about having to do nested 'eval's to resolve exec_prefix * Updated the text in the rmlcopydvdrc file to more accurately reflect the parameter settings 2006-03-07 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.2.0 released * Added logic to the main script to look for the configuration and support files first in the installed location, then in the current working directory, and if they cannot be found, the program is aborted * Fixed the make system so that targets are not redundantly made again during 'make install' or if 'make check' is issued * Updated the documentation * Added a copyright notice to every source file * Added an svnclean make target to clean the tree to a pristine SVN checkout 2006-03-06 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.1.2 released * Fixed installation directory screen output when running configure (thanks, Dan!) * Fixed so that the DVD_RIP variable in the configuration file is not updated if dvd::rip is not found * Changed the DATE_STRING value in the configuration file to comply with the international date format (thanks, Dan!) * Provided a check so that auto device discovery doesn't think a CD-ROM or other non-DVD device is a DVD drive (thanks, Dan!) * Added a patch from Dan Nicholson to properly assign devices if the devices are set in the rc file (thanks, Dan!) * Added a THANKS file to the distribution 2006-03-05 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.1.1 released * Added Autotool configuration/installation 2006-03-01 Randy McMurchy <rmlcopydvd**AT**mcmurchy**DOT**com> * Version 0.1.0 released * first release
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