Full ISO Backups?

[GoodOmens]

I am in the process of building a large home media file server for my house and will begin backing up dvd's to it. At some point I will use it to stream full iso's/ divx's to a media box but right now it will be used to play movies on my pc.

Right now the server is sitting idle and running fedora core 4 w/ samba. As of now I do not need to shrink the dvd (I have room for up to 2 tb of storage ...) and since the machine will mainly be sitting idle I want to use it to rip my dvd collection.

I have been browsing this forum and is linux a decent platform for dvd ripping? The only program I could find was kdvdbackup that allows full iso backups.

Are any of these apps multi-threaded? My machine is a dual proc box (only 2x 2000+ mp's so nothing too beefy) so I would like to take full advantage as possible. If not, are any windows apps multi-threaded (as switching os's at this point really isn't a big deal).

I would be interested in encoding some of my movies into divx's for play over a media box down the line so are there any good tools for that on the linux side? Or again would switching to windows be better for my server?

Thanks a ton!

[random asshat]

Hi there, GoodOmens, welcome to the doom9 forums.

A few answers to your questions:

If the disc has no sort of extended protection scheme (ie Arccos)
and you don't need to remove the CSS immediatly you can just
`mkisofs (http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_mkisofs.htm) -V "DVD_LABEL" -dvd-video -o /path/myimage.iso /mnt/dvd/`

Vobcopy (http://freshmeat.net/projects/vobcopy/) has always worked fine for me (with libdvdcss)
for stripping CSS from the vobs

.. readcd (http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/) and cdrdao produce nice images of a disc in the
scenarios where there is an intentional error in the mastering

xine (http://freshmeat.net/projects/xine/) and mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html) are both fine media players that play
pretty much everything thrown at them. (I like xine for DVDs)

MEncoder (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide) will encode to pretty much any format you have
the codecs for.

You will find a ton of other usefull linux DV tools with the
search function on this website.

There are wealth of native linux tools for the majority of what you
want to do, and wine if you prefer the to use win version of the tool
under linux.

Choosing to do it in windows or linux is up to you.
Pick the one you're most comfortable with.


Or again would switching to windows be better for my server?


Personally I prefer linux/BSD for server type roles. But others
might disagree (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/17/035240&tid=201&tid=106) with me.