#pragma section-numbers 2 ||<>|| = How to Backup a DVD = If you happen to own a number of DVDs and wish to back them up, this article is for you. It has been constructed to aid the casual user with overcoming some of the tricky DVD issues that might crop up during fair-use archiving. This article specifically tries to tackle double layer DVD to single layer DVD (DVD9 to DVD5 formats). Why yet another article for DVD9 to DVD5 copying? As you will surely find out, some DVDs resist the scripts that are out there to do this. Although not streamlined, this article '''should''' successfully backup even the most tightly wound up DVDs on the market. If the easier tools work, use them. If they don't, try the following technique. {i} ''This process will not backup the menus, only the primary title.'' We will require tcrequant (transcode package), mplex (mjpegtools package), dvdauthor (dvdauthor package), and mplayer (mplayer package) to successfully do this. If you don't have these tools add them via: {{{ sudo apt-get install transcode mplayer dvdauthor mjpegtools }}} == Dump the DVD Main Title to Individual Files == While there are numerous guides out there to deal with archiving a DVD, this one will use a tried and true technique which deals with all sorts of troublesome DVDs. These issues might include split timecodes and a plethora of other little dittys that will get in your way. First, use a DVD player to locate the exact title location of our primary title. In the following example, we have deduced that the primary title is located at the sixteenth location. {{{ mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile output.ac3 dvd://16 mplayer -dumpvideo -dumpfile output.m2v dvd://16 }}} This will strip the main title into two separate files -- namely output.ac3 (the audio) and output.m2v (the video). {i} ''If the wrong audio track is offered, force mplayer to use the correct one by providing the -aid