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Well, subject says it all: I had NO bugreports at all, so no potential fixes coming. Bugreporting is so *simple*.
Simply add "-v -v" to your errous vobcopy call and vobcopy will create a bugreport file under /tmp/ to mail to me.
TIA

Hi!
I'm slowly running out of ideas what to add to vobcopy. Interesting in my opinion are (but I'm not sure that I can manage that, any help appreciated!):
-ripping the subtitles to separate file (with the use of extsub maybe?)
-extracting the audio tracks and feeding them to lame (ac3dec/a52dec maybe?)
-getting the whole playing time and some other stats about the film and putting them into a file to the film (libdvdread provides something but I'm not that good with structs yet...)
-ripping of the dvd chapterwise (had something in the code some time ago, but didn't work on the first run and I didn't understand it (was only copy/paste from play_title.c from the libdvdread-guys))
-???
Any more ideas?
Post something or mail me
Robos

Hi!
There was a small bug in vobcopy (an include that might not be fulfilled by a user machine). Also some new options have been added to start copying from a given start (in bytes, -b) onward and to specify an earlier end (-e). For more info see the changelog, release-notes or the README

Hi!
Well, a new release. Not the ber-features added but some useful stuff. The likes of:
the possibility to specify additional directories where the data dump will be continued if there isn't enough free space in the dir provided behind -o. These additional dirs are named behind -1, -2, -3 and -4. It seems as if they have to be named *directly* behind the number like this -1/tmp/ (no space).
Additionally there is the -I (Info) option to get some infos about the dvd and
the output dir.
If you have some suggestions what might be nice to have, drop me an email!
Robos

Hello!
Just packed it all together and called it 0.3.0. The standard call of vobcopy has been simplified to a mere "vobcopy".This will find the mounted dvd on it's own and will copy the first title into 2GB chunks into the current working directory.But,to compensate for the easiest call, some command line options have been added.Take a look at the release notes or call "vobcopy -h". With the help of rosenauer this release now supports large file (> 2GB) output.
Even some efforts have been made to get vobcopy to work on solaris. For more information, see the README or look at http://www.linux-programming-newbie.org in the news part.
Have fun!
Robos

Hi!
Well, I thought it wasn't that good that you have to go to the destination-directory to get vobcopy to copy the files there. Now you can specify with -o /path/to/dir/ where the vobs shall go to. Since a free floating 2 (title-number) wouldn't be that nice then I also included the -n title-number option. Also error-checking has been strengthened (don't overdo it with the testing ;-). If you find a bug, get back to me
Otherwise, have fun!
Robos

This is only a small update that adds a Makefile for simpler building and installing of vobcopy.

Vobcopy is for copying dvd vob files (the data files) to harddisk for further processing (encoding). They get decrypted while copying them (many thanx to the libdvdread developers).
You can choose which title vob you want to copy (optional, will take first as default) and copy the resulting data to files named according to the dvd title (into 2 GB chunks, e.g. wow_a_movie1_1.vob, wow_a_movie1_2.vob ...)
Now incorporates a free space test on the destination drive, along with a check if the overall title vob size matches (roughly) what has been copied.
Even a progression indicator is included ;-)

Vobcopy is for copying dvd vob files (the data files) to harddisk for further processing (encoding). They are being decrypted while copying them (many thanx to the libdvdread developers).
You can choose which title vob you want to copy (optional, will take first as default) and copy the resulting data to files named according to the dvd title (into 2 GB chunks, e.g. outworld_01_1.vob, outworld_01_2.vob ...)
Now incorporated free space test on destination drive, along with a check if the overall title vob size matches (roughly) what has been copied.
See release notes for information on pre...