Linux write dvd iso

Howto: Linux write (burn) data to DVD or DVD/RW

In order to write DVD/DVD-RW from shell prompt you need to install a package called dvd+rw-tools.

DVD is another good option for backup, archiving, data exchange etc. You can install dvd+rw-tools with following commands. Also note that this package works under *BSD, HP-UX, Solaris and other UNIX like operating systems.

Debian installation:
# apt-get install ‘dvd+rw-tools’

Fedora Core Linux installation:
# yum install ‘dvd+rw-tools’

RedHat Enterprise Linux installation:
# up2date ‘dvd+rw-tools’

In order to write DVD you need to install cdrecord tools.

How do I write DVD?

You need to use growisofs command, which combined mkisofs frontend/DVD recording program. From growisofs man page, “growisofs was originally designed as a frontend to mkisofs to facilitate appending of data to ISO9660 volumes residing on random-access media such as DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, plain files, hard disk partitions. In the course of development general purpose DVD recording support was implemented, and as of now growisofs supports not only random-access media, but even mastering of multiession DVD media such as DVD+R and DVD-R/-RW. In addition growisofs supports first-/single-session recording of arbitrary pre-mastered image (formatted as UDF, ISO9660 or any other file system, if formatted at all) to all supported DVD media types.”

First create the ISO image
# mkisofs -r -o /tmp/var-www-disk1.iso /var/www

Now use the growisofs command to write the ISO onto the DVD:
# growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/var-www-disk1.iso

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To append more data for same DVD:
# growisofs -M /dev/dvd /tmp/file.1

To format (erase) a DVD:
# dvd+rw-format -force /dev/dvd
OR
# dvd+rw-format -force=full /dev/dvd

The dvd+rw-format command formats dvd disk in the specified dvd drive.

To display information about dvd drive and disk using dvd+rw-mediainfo command:
# dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd

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Linux creating CD-ROM ISO images from a CD, DVD, Blu-ray

dd is a perfect tool for copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands. dd command works on Linux and a Unix-like system whose primary job is to convert and copy files. It can create exact CD-ROM ISO image or create a new CD/DVD iso image. This is useful for making a backup, as well as for hard drive installations, require a working the use of ISO images.

How do I use dd command on Linux to create an ISO image?

Put CD or DVD into CDROM/DVDROM drive.

Do not mount CD/DVD. Verify if the cd is mounted or not with the mount command:
$ mount

If CD/DVD was mounted automatically unmount it with the help of umount command:
$ sudo umount /dev/cdrom
OR
$ sudo umount /mnt/cdrom/

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Warning: Reading and writing partitions or data from it has the VERY REAL potential to cause DATA LOSS. Use common sense. BACKUP ANYTHING YOU DO NOT WANT TO LOSE! Wrong command line option can result in DATA LOSS.

Create CD-ROM/DVD ISO image with dd command:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cdimg1.iso
Where,

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How to Burn an ISO to a CD or DVD

An .iso file is an image of a CD, DVD, or BluRay disc. It is a way of storing files in a computer as if they were on a disc. Unfortunately, individual files are not accessible easily, but can be extracted like a zip archive.

Choosing a Disc

Choosing the right disc to write an .iso to isn’t all that difficult. First, select your .iso and on the bottom left read how big it is. Now, you simply need to use a disc big enough to fit it on to. CDs are typically 700MB to 1.4GB, DVDs 4.7GB to 9.4GB, and BluRay Discs 25GB to 50GB (all three come in single or dual layer). Your computer also needs a disc drive (optical drive) capable of writing to your chosen disc. DVD Writer drives are fairly commonplace, as are Writable DVDs.

R or RW

R stands for Recordable, and RW for ReWriteable.

R discs can only be written to once. Once the data is there, it stays there, sort of. It’s actually possible to erase them afterwards, but then that’s it, you have a permanently blank disc. RW discs can be written to thousands of time. Generally the disc will become to scratched from human handling before it wears out.

As R and RW discs cost roughly the same amount, i would recommend RW.

The — (minus) was originally just a hyphen. but was changed (sort of) to be a minus (see what i mean) when the + (plus) discs were introduced.

Plus discs usually cost slightly more, as they support direct writing from a computer, whereas Minus discs require the files to be packaged into an .iso before writing. Seeing as we’re burning an .iso, it actually doesn’t matter, but Plus discs will be more flexible if your using them later.

Using Brasero

Either double-click, or right-click and Write to Disc , and Brasero should open (unless you’ve installed another image burner). The file is already selected in the top box. Click the bottom box and select the disc you want to write to (if you haven’t inserted it yet, now would be a good time). Click Burn . Brasero will write the image to the disc. Wait for it to finish.

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Introduction

For an introductory explanation of ISO images and burning them see IsoImage.This page details how to create an ISO (.iso) file from a CD or DVD.

Why would I want to do this?

Iso images are useful because they are always available quickly. Two common uses of iso images are:

Creating images of discs that you copy frequently. This means that you can make copies in the future without the source disc — see BurningIsoHowto.

Creating images of discs you use frequently so that you do not have to have the disc in the drive to access them — see MountIso.

Creating an iso image from a non-music CD or DVD

GUI (Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, Focal Fossa)

1. Insert the CD or DVD.
2. Wait for the disk icon to display in the Dock. Your CD or DVD has now been mounted and can be read by Ubuntu.
3. Click the «Show Applications» icon in the Dock to display a Search box.
4. In the Search box, type «disks», then click the Disks application to open it.
5. In Disks, click the «CD/DVD Drive» entry on the left to display the CD or DVD volume. (Don’t touch anything else in Disks unless you know what you’re doing.)

Click the menu icon in the top-right, then click «Create Disk Image. » to display the Create Disk Image dialog, as shown in this screenshot: create-file-rename.png

Enter a name for the .iso file and choose where you want to save the file.

Click «Start Creating. » to start creating the .iso image of the CD or DVD. Then wait until the progress indicator in Disks shows that the image creation is completed.

You can check your new .iso file by double-clicking it to mount it, then browsing it as you would if it were a CD or DVD.

Command line

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso (assuming /dev/cdrom is where the CD is mounted, and file.iso is the name you want to give the ISO, in the current directory)

Creating an iso image from a music CD or DVD

1. Insert the CD or DVD.
2. Wait for Sound Juicer to pop-up with the songs on the disc
3. Close Sound Juicer

Click «Places» > «Computer» (the menu at the top of your screen)

Right-click the icon of the CD

Select «Copy Disc. «

Alongside «Copy disc to:», change the drop-down to read «File image»

Click «Write»

Choose where you want to save the file

Click OK

The icon of the CD can also be found on the Desktop after the disc has been inserted. This icon can also be used for steps 5 — 10.

Listening the audio tracks of an iso image from a music CD

To be completed.

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Optical disc drive

In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from discs, but recent drives are commonly both readers and recorders, also called burners or writers. Compact discs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs are common types of optical media which can be read and recorded by such drives. Optical drive is the generic name; drives are usually described as «CD» «DVD», or «Blu-ray», followed by «drive», «writer», etc.

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Burning

This article or section needs expansion.

The burning process of optical disc drives consists of creating or obtaining an image and writing it to an optical medium. The image may in principle be any data file. If you want to mount the resulting medium, then it is usually an ISO 9660 file system image file. Audio and multi-media CDs are often burned from a .bin file, under control of a .toc file or a .cue file which tell the desired track layout.

Install burning utilities

This article or section needs language, wiki syntax or style improvements. See Help:Style for reference.

If you want to use programs with graphical user interface, then follow #Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI.

The programs listed here are command line oriented. They are the back ends which are used by most free GUI programs for CD, DVD, and BD. GUI users might get to them when it comes to troubleshooting or to scripting of burn activities.

You need at least one program for creation of file system images and one program that is able to burn data onto your desired media type.

Available programs for ISO 9660 image creation are:

The traditional choice is mkisofs.

Available programs for burning to media are:

The traditional choices are cdrecord for CD and growisofs for DVD and Blu-ray Disk. For writing TOC/CUE/BIN files to CD, install cdrdao .

The free GUI programs for CD, DVD, and BD burning depend on at least one of the above packages.

xorrisofs supports the mkisofs options which are shown in this document.

cdrskin supports the shown cdrecord options; xorrecord also supports those which do not deal with audio CD.

Making an ISO image from existing files on hard disk

The simplest way to create an ISO image is to first copy the needed files to one directory, for example: ./for_iso .

Then generate the image file with mkisofs:

Each of those options are explained in the following sections.

Basic options

graft-points

It is also possible to let mkisofs to collect files and directories from various paths

-graft-points Enables the recognition of pathspecs which consist of a target address in the ISO file system (e.g. /photos ) and a source address on hard disk (e.g. /home/user/photos ). Both are separated by a «=» character.

So this example puts the disk directory /home/user/photos , /home/user/mail and /home/user/holidays/photos , respectively in the ISO image as /photos , /mail and /photos/holidays .

Programs mkisofs and xorrisofs accept the same options. For secure backups, consider using xorrisofs with option —for_backup , which records eventual ACLs and stores an MD5 checksum for each data file.

See the mkisofs(8) and xorrisofs(1) man pages for more info about their options.

Mounting an ISO image

You can mount an ISO image if you want to browse its files. To mount the ISO image, we can use:

Do not forget to unmount the image when your inspection of the image is done:

See also Mounting images as user for mounting without root privileges.

Converting img/ccd to an ISO image

To convert an img / ccd image, you can use ccd2iso :

Learning the name of your optical drive

For the remainder of this section the name of your recording device is assumed to be /dev/sr0 .

which should report Vendor_info and Identification fields of the drive.

If no drive is found, check whether any /dev/sr* exist and whether they offer read/write permission ( wr- ) to you or your group. If no /dev/sr* exists then try loading module sr_mod manually.

Reading the volume label of a CD or DVD

If you want to get the name/label of the media, use dd:

Creating an ISO image from a CD, DVD, or BD

In order to only copy actual data from the disc and not the empty blocks filling it up, first retrieve its block/sector count and size (2048 most of the time):

Then use dd to copy the data using the obtained values:

If the original medium was bootable, then the copy will be a bootable image. You may use it as a pseudo CD for a virtual machine or burn it onto an optical media which should then become bootable. [1]

Erasing CD-RW and DVD-RW

Used CD-RW media need to be erased before you can write over the previously recorded data. This is done by

There are two options for blanking: blank=fast and blank=all . Full blanking lasts as long as a full write run. It overwrites the payload data on the CD. Nevertheless this should not be considered as securely making those data unreadable. For that purpose, several full write runs with random data are advised.

Alternative commands are:

To erase the DVD-RW use the dvd+rw-format utility from dvd+rw-tools :

Alternative commands are:

Such fastly blanked DVD-RW are not suitable for multi-session and cannot take input streams of unpredicted length. For that purpose one has to use one of:

The other media types are either write-once (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R) or are overwritable without the need for erasing (DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, BD-RE).

Formatting DVD-RW

Formatted DVD-RW media can be overwritten without previous erasure. So consider to apply once in their life time

Unlike DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, and BD-RE, formatted DVD-RW cannot be used as (slow) hard disk directly, but rather need the mediation of driver pktcdvd. See man pktsetup.

Formatting BD-RE and BD-R

BD-RE need formatting before first use. This is done automatically by the burn programs when they detect the unformatted state. Nevertheless the size of the payload area can be influenced by expert versions of the format commands shown above for DVD-RW.

BD-R can be used unformatted or formatted. Unformatted they are written with full nominal speed and offer maximum storage capacity. Formatted they get checkread during write operations and bad blocks get replaced by blocks from the Spare Area. This reduces write speed to a half or less of nominal speed. The default sized Spare Area reduces the storage capacity by 768 MiB.

growisofs formats BD-R by default. The others do not. growisofs can be kept from formatting. cdrskin and xorriso can write with full nominal speed on formatted BD-RE or BD-R:

Burning an ISO image to CD, DVD, or BD

To burn a readily prepared ISO image file isoimage.iso onto an optical medium, run for CD:

and for DVD or BD:

Verifying the burnt ISO image

You can verify the integrity of the burnt medium to make sure it contains no errors. Always eject the medium and reinsert it before verifying. It will guarantee that any kernel cache will not be used to read the data.

First calculate the MD5 checksum of the original ISO image:

Next calculate the MD5 checksum of the ISO file system on the medium. Although some media types deliver exactly the same amount of data as have been submitted to the burn program, many others append trailing garbage when being read. So you should restrict reading to the size of the ISO image file.

Both runs should yield the same MD5 checksum (here: e5643e18e05f5646046bb2e4236986d8 ). If they do not, you will probably also get an I/O error message from the dd run. dmesg might then tell about SCSI errors and block numbers, if you are interested.

ISO 9660 and burning on-the-fly

It is not necessary to store an emerging ISO file system on hard disk before writing it to optical media. Only very old CD drives in very old computers could suffer failed burns due to an empty drive buffer.

If you omit option -o from mkisofs then it writes the ISO image to standard output. This can be piped into the standard input of burn programs.

Option -waiti is not really needed here. It prevents cdrecord from writing to the medium before mkisofs starts its output. This would allow mkisofs to read the medium without disturbing an already started burn run. See next section about multi-session.

On DVD and BD, you may let growisofs operate mkisofs for you and burn its output on-the-fly:

Multi-session

ISO 9660 multi-session means that a medium with readable file system is still writable at its first unused block address, and that a new ISO directory tree gets written to this unused part. The new tree is accompanied by the content blocks of newly added or overwritten data files. The blocks of data files, which shall stay as in the old ISO tree, will not be written again.

Linux and many other operating systems will mount the directory tree in the last session on the medium. This youngest tree will normally show the files of the older sessions, too.

Multi-session by cdrecord

CD-R and CD-RW stay writable (aka «appendable») if cdrecord option -multi was used

Then the medium can be inquired for the parameters of the next session

By help of these parameters and of the readable medium in the drive you can produce the add-on ISO session

Finally append the session to the medium and keep it appendable again

Programs cdrskin and xorrecord do this too with DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R and unformatted DVD-RW. Program cdrecord does multi-session with at least DVD-R and DVD-RW. They all do with CD-R and CD-RW, of course.

Most re-usable media types do not record a session history that would be recognizable for a mounting kernel. But with ISO 9660 it is possible to achieve the multi-session effect even on those media.

growisofs and xorriso can do this and hide most of the complexity.

Multi-session by growisofs

By default, growisofs uses mkisofs as a backend for creating ISO images forwards most of its program arguments to . See above examples of mkisofs. It bans option -o and deprecates option -C . By default it uses the mkisofs. You may specify to use one of the others compatible backend program by setting environment variable MKISOFS :

The wish to begin with a new ISO file system on the optical medium is expressed by option -Z

The wish to append more files as new session to an existing ISO file system is expressed by option -M

For details see the growisofs(1) manual and the manuals of mkisofs and xorrisofs.

Multi-session by xorriso

xorriso learns the wish to begin with a new ISO file system from the blank state of the medium. So it is appropriate to blank it if it contains data. The command -blank as_needed applies to all kinds of re-usable media and even to ISO images in data files on hard disk. It does not cause error if applied to a blank write-once medium.

On non-blank writable media xorriso appends the newly given disk files if command -dev is used rather than -outdev . Of course, no command -blank should be given here

For details see the xorriso(1) man page and especially its examples.

BD Defect Management

BD-RE and formatted BD-R media are normally written with enabled Defect Management. This feature reads the written blocks while they are still stored in the drive buffer. In case of poor read quality the blocks get written again or redirected to the Spare Area where the data get stored in replacement blocks.

This checkreading reduces write speed to at most half of the nominal speed of drive and BD medium. Sometimes it is even worse. Heavy use of the Spare Area causes long delays during read operations. So Defect Management is not always desirable.

cdrecord does not format BD-R. It has no means to prevent Defect Management on BD-RE media, though.

growisofs formats BD-R by default. The Defect Management can be prevented by option -use-the-force-luke=spare:none . It has no means to prevent Defect Management on BD-RE media, though.

cdrskin, xorriso and xorrecord do not format BD-R by default. They do with cdrskin blank=format_if_needed , resp. xorriso -format as_needed , resp. xorrecord blank=format_overwrite . These three programs can disable Defect Management with BD-RE and already formatted BD-R by cdrskin stream_recording=on , resp. xorriso -stream_recording on , resp. xorrecord stream_recording=on .

Burning an audio CD

Create your audio tracks and store them as uncompressed, 16-bit, 44100-Hz, stereo WAV files. To convert MP3 to WAV, ensure lame is installed, cd to the directory with your MP3 files, and run:

In case you get an error when trying to burn WAV files converted with LAME, try decoding with mpg123 :

To convert AAC to WAV ensure faad2 is installed and run:

To fix the bitrate of an already existing WAV file (or many other formats), try using sox :

Name the audio files in a manner that will cause them to be listed in the desired track order when listed alphabetically, such as 01.wav , 02.wav , 03.wav , etc. Use the following command to simulate burning the WAV files as an audio CD:

If everything worked, you can remove the -dummy flag to actually burn the CD.

To test the new audio CD, use MPlayer:

Burning a BIN/CUE

To burn a BIN/CUE image run:

TOC/CUE/BIN for mixed-mode disks

ISO images only store a single data track. If you want to create an image of a mixed-mode disk (data track with multiple audio tracks) then you need to make a TOC/BIN pair:

Some software only likes CUE/BIN pair, you can make a CUE sheet with toc2cue (part of cdrdao ):

Burn backend problems

If you are experiencing problems, you may ask for advise at mailing list cdwrite@other.debian.org, or try to write to the one of support mail addresses if some are listed near the end of the program’s man page.

Tell the command lines you tried, the medium type (e.g. CD-R, DVD+RW, . ), and the symptoms of failure (program messages, disappointed user expectation, . ). You will possibly get asked to obtain the newest release or development version of the affected program and to make test runs. But the answer might as well be, that your drive dislikes the particular medium.

Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI

There are several applications available to burn CDs in a graphical environment.

• AcetoneISO — All-in-one ISO tool (supports BIN, MDF, NRG, IMG, DAA, DMG, CDI, B5I, BWI, PDI and ISO).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/acetoneiso || acetoneiso2

• BashBurn — Lightweight terminal based menu frontend for CD/DVD burning tools.

http://bashburn.dose.se/ || bashburn

• Brasero — Disc burning application for the GNOME desktop that is designed to be as simple as possible.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero || brasero

• cdw — Ncurses frontend to cdrecord, mkisofs, growisofs, dvd+rw-mediainfo, dvd+rw-format and xorriso.

http://cdw.sourceforge.net/ || cdwAUR

• Graveman — GTK-based CD/DVD burning application. It requires configuration to point to correct devices.

https://graveman.tuxfamily.org/ || gravemanAUR

• isomaster — ISO image editor.

http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster || isomasterAUR

• K3b — Feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning and ripping application based on KDElibs.

https://userbase.kde.org/K3b || k3b

• SimpleBurn — Minimalistic GTK application for burning and extracting CDs and DVDs.

https://simpleburn.tuxfamily.org/ || simpleburnAUR [broken link: package not found]

• X-CD-Roast — Lightweight cdrtools front-end for CD and DVD writing.

http://www.xcdroast.org/ || xcdroastAUR

• Xfburn — Simple front-end to the libburnia libraries with support for CD/DVD(-RW), ISO images, and BurnFree.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfburn/start || xfburn

• xorriso-tcltk — Graphical front-end to ISO and CD/DVD/BD burn tool xorriso

https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/ || libisoburn

Playback

Playback of audio CDs requires the libcdio package. To enable KDE Applications like Dolphin to read audio CDs install audiocd-kio .

If you wish to play encrypted DVDs, you must install the libdvd* packages:

Additionally, you must install player software. Popular DVD players are MPlayer, xine and VLC. See the video players list and the specific instructions for MPlayer.

Ripping

Ripping is the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk, typically from removable media or media streams.

Audio CD

Console

• abcde — Comprehensive command-line tool for ripping audio CDs.

https://abcde.einval.com/ || abcde

• cdda2wav — CD-audio extraction program with paranoia support.

http://www.cdda2wav.de/ || cdrtools

• cdparanoia — Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) tool.

https://xiph.org/paranoia/index.html || cdparanoia

• ripright — Minimal CD ripper modeled on autorip.

https://www.mcternan.me.uk/ripright/ || riprightAUR

• ripit — Command-line ripper that supports MusicBrainz, freeddb and various codecs.

https://www.ripit.pl/ || ripitAUR

• shnsplit — Splits .wav and .flac files according to a CUE sheet and encodes the resulting pieces. A useful companion to ABCDE.

http://shnutils.freeshell.org/shntool/ || shntool

• whipper — CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed. Uses cdparanoia, MusicBrainz, AccurateRip.

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper || whipper

Graphical

• Asunder — GTK-based CD ripping program.

http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/ || asunder

• Audex — Audio grabber tool for CD-ROM drives based on KDE.

https://www.linux-apps.com/content/show.php?content=77125 || audex

• fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.

https://freac.org/ || freacAUR

• Goobox — CD player and ripper for GNOME.

https://people.gnome.org/

DVD-Video

Often, the process of ripping a DVD can be broken down into two subtasks:

1. Data extraction — Copying the audio and/or video data to a hard disk,
2. Transcoding — Converting the extracted data into a suitable format.

Some utilities perform both tasks, whilst others focus on one aspect or the other.

Console

• dvdbackup — Tool for pure data extraction which does not transcode. It is useful for creating exact copies of encrypted DVDs in conjunction with libdvdcss or for decrypting video for other utilities unable to read encrypted DVDs.

http://dvdbackup.sourceforge.net/ || dvdbackup

• FFmpeg — Complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix, capable to do a direct rip in any format (audio/video) from a DVD-Video ISO image, just select the input as the ISO image and proceed with the desired options. It also allows to downmixing, shrinking, spliting, selecting streams among other features.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

• HandBrake CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake-cli

• MEncoder — Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool. It supports ripping and transcoding DVD-Video.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ || mencoder

• subtitleripper — Convert DVD subtitles into text format.

http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/ || subtitleripperAUR

• Transcode — Video/DVD ripper and encoder for the terminal/console. It is outdated/no longer actively maintained.

|| transcode

• Vobcopy — Copies DVD .vob files to hard disk, decrypting them on the way.

https://github.com/barak/vobcopy || vobcopyAUR

Graphical

• dvd::rip — Front-end to transcode , used to extract DVD’s to the hard disk and transcode or extract and transcode on-the-fly.

https://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ || dvdripAUR

• HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK version.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake

• K3b — Feature-rich and easy to handle CD/DVD burning and ripping application based on KDElibs.

https://userbase.kde.org/K3b || k3b

• OGMRip — An application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI, OGM, MP4, or Matroska files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix, mp4box, oggenc, lame, and faac to perform its tasks.

http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/ || ogmripAUR

DVD-Audio

• Python Audio Tools — Includes dvda2track, which is easy to use command line tool to extract DVD-Audio tracks to uncompressed wav files.

http://audiotools.sourceforge.net/ || audiotoolsAUR

Troubleshooting

Brasero fails to normalize audio CD

If you try to burn it may stop at the first step called Normalization.

As a workaround you can disable the normalization plugin using the Edit > Plugins menu

VLC: Error «. could not open the disc /dev/dvd»

If you get an error like

it may be because there is no device node /dev/dvd on your system. Udev no longer creates /dev/dvd and instead uses /dev/sr0 . To fix this, edit the VLC configuration file (

DVD drive is noisy

If playing DVD videos causes the system to be very loud, it may be because the disk is spinning faster than it needs to. To temporarily change the speed of the drive, run:

Any speed that is supported by the drive can be used, or 0 for the maximum speed.

Playback does not work with new computer (new DVD-Drive)

If playback does not work and you have a new computer (new DVD-Drive) the reason might be that the region code is not set. You can read and set the region code with the regionset AUR package.

None of the above programs are able to rip/encode a DVD to my hard disk!

Make sure the region of your DVD reader is set correctly; otherwise, you will get loads of inexplicable CSS-related errors. Use the regionset AUR package to do so.

GUI program log indicates problems with backend program

If you use a GUI program and experience problems which the program’s log blames on some backend program, then try to reproduce the problem by the logged backend program arguments. Whether you succeed with reproducing or not, you may report the logged lines and your own findings to the places mentioned in #Burn backend problems section.

Special case: medium error / write error

Here are some typical messages about the drive disliking the medium. This can only be solved by using a different drive or a different medium. A different program will hardly help.

Brasero with backend growisofs:

Brasero with backend libburn:

If your new DVD drive is detected but you cannot mount disks, check wether your BIOS uses AHCI and add the module to the kernel image.

Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add ahci to the MODULES array (see mkinitcpio for details):

Regenerate the initramfs so that it includes the newly added module.

BD-R DL 50GB errors on trying to burn second layer

Using growisofs from dvd+rw-tools for burning 50GB BD-R DL discs might result in a fatal error and damaged media, such as:

This happened at the 25GB boundary when starting to write the second layer. Using cdrecord from cdrtools works with no problems. Tested with a ‘HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH16NS40’ LG burner, and Verbatim BD-R DL 6x discs (#96911). FS#47797

Disc tray autocloses

If after ejecting a cd, either by using the eject command, or pushing the drive button, the drive disc tray autocloses before being able to remove the disc, try the following command:

If that solves the problem, make the change permanent:

If the above does not work and as a last resort measure, you can unload the disk module from the kernel via:

the disk drive should now behave as expected but will not mount disk anymore. After putting a disk into the drive, reactivate the module via:

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