9/20    I have a DVD of my friend doing some Karate I'd like to copy for him.
        How can I copy a DVD so I can play it in a regular DVD player?
        Preferably using Linux, but I can use windows if necessary.
        \_ what format is the video file on the original DVD?
           \_ Err.. I guess I don't know.  It plays on a regular DVD player.
           \_ If it's a non-copy protected dvd, you should be able to use any
              dvd ripper and then just burn 'em back, maintaining the
              structure.  linux should have tools readily available for this.
              Does anyone know if a non-CSS protected video DVD files can
              just be copied like normal files or even just do the copy by
              using dd?  I've never tried and am curious.
              \_ Well, a simple iso copy worked for me.  I don't know if it
                 would work if there was copy protection. -op
                 \_ I don't know how CSS exactly works, but I doubt you can
                    just do a dd of CSS protected files.  I believe you can't
                    even copy the the protected files by using just a file
                    manager.  That aside, thank you for testing this.  I
                    recently had to extract and remix the tracks from two
                    different dvds created by a mini-dvd camcorder, and at
                    least for the future, I can probably shave off 10-15
                    minutes.