NAME¶
dvdbackup - Tool to backup DVDs
SYNOPSIS¶
dvdbackup [
OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
dvdbackup command. This manual
page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does
not have a manual page.
dvdbackup is a tool to extract data from video
DVDs. It has the advantages of being small, fast, and easy to use.
OPTIONS¶
A summary of options is included below.
- -h, --help
- print a brief usage message
- -V, --version
- print version information
- -I, --info
- for information about the DVD
- -M, --mirror
- backup the whole DVD
- -F, --feature
- backup the main feature of the DVD
- -T X, --titleset=X
- backup title set X
- -t X, --title=X
- backup title X
- -s X, --start=X
- backup from chapter X
- -e X, --end=X
- backup to chapter X
- -i DEVICE, --input=DEVICE
- where DEVICE is your DVD device. This switch only needs to
be used if your DVD device node is not /dev/dvd
- -o DIRECTORY, --output=DIRECTORY
- where DIRECTORY is your backup target. If not given, the
current working directory will be used.
- -v, --verbose
- print more information about progress
- -n NAME, --name=NAME
- (optional) set the title - useful if autodetection
fails
- -a 0, --aspect=0
- to get aspect ratio 4:3 instead of 16:9 if both are
present
- -r {a,b,m}, --error={a,b,m}
- select read error handling: a=abort, b=skip block, m=skip
multiple blocks (default)
- -p, --progress
- print progress information while copying VOBs
Option notes¶
-a is option to the
-F switch and has no effect on other options
-s and
-e should preferably be used together with
-t
If your backup directory is /my/dvd/backup/dir/ specified with the
-o
flag, then dvdbackup will create a DVD-Video structure under
/my/dvd/backup/dir/TITLE_NAME/VIDEO_TS. If the
-o flag is omitted, the
current directory is used.
Since the title is "unique" you can use the same directory for all
your DVD backups. If it happens to have a generic title dvdbackup will exit
with a return value of 2, and you will need to specify a title name with the
-n switch.
dvdbackup will always mimic the original DVD-Video structure. Hence if you e.g.
use the
-M (mirror) you will get an exact duplicate of the original.
This means that every file will have the same size as the original one.
Likewise also for the
-F and the
-T switch.
However the
-t and (
-t -s/
-e) switch is a bit different
the titles sectors will be written to the original file but not at the same
offset as the original one since there may be gaps in the cell structure that
we do not fill.
EXAMPLES¶
- dvdbackup -I
- gathers information about the DVD. /dev/dvd is the default
device tried - you need to use -i if your device name is
different.
- dvdbackup -M
- backups the whole DVD. This action creates a valid
DVD-Video structure that can be burned to a DVD-/+R(W) with help of
genisoimage.
- dvdbackup -F
- backups the main feature of the DVD. This action creates a
valid DVD-Video structure of the feature title set. Note that this will
not result in an image immediately watchable - you will need another
program like dvdauthor to help construct the IFO files.
dvdbackup defaults to get the 16:9 version of the main feature if a 4:3 is
also present on the DVD. To get the 4:3 version use -a 0.
dvdbackup makes it best to make a intelligent guess what is the main feature
of the DVD - in case it fails please send a bug report.
- dvdbackup -T 2
- backups the title set 2 i.e. all VTS_02_X.XXX files.
This action creates a valid DVD-Video structure of the specified title
set. Note that this will not result in an image immediately watchable -
you will need another program like dvdauthor to help construct the IFO
files.
- dvdbackup -t 1
- backups the title 1. This action backups all cells that
forms the specified title. Note that there can be sector gaps in between
one cell and another. dvdbackup will backup all sectors that belongs to
the title but will skip sectors that are not a part of the title.
- dvdbackup -t 1 -s 20 -e
25
- This action will backup chapter 20 to 25 in title 1, as
with the backup of a title there can be sector gaps between one chapter
(cell) and on other. dvdbackup will backup all sectors that belongs to the
title 1 chapter 20 to 25 but will skip sectors that are not a part of the
title 1 chapter 20 to 25.
To backup a single chapter e.g. chapter 20 do -s 20 -e 20.
To backup from chapter 20 to the end chapter use only -s 20.
To backup to chapter 20 from the first chapter use only -e 20.
You can skip the -t switch and let the program guess the title
although it is not recommended.
If you specify a chapter that is higher than the last chapter of the title
dvdbackup will truncate to the highest chapter of the title.
EXIT STATUS¶
- 0
- on success
- 1
- on usage error
- 2
- on title name error
- -1
- on failure
AUTHORS¶
dvdbackup was written by Olaf Beck <olaf_sc@yahoo.com>, but is now
maintained by Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@gmail.com> and Stephen Gran
<sgran@debian.org>. This manual page was written by Stephen Gran
<sgran@debian.org>.
