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I have 2 home made DVD that a friend gave me. It has videos she has rights to redistribute for a Church ministry. And I am not sure, but I think they might be using one of those stand alone DVD copiers you see in magazines in order to make copies really fast(ish). The DVD is named "DVD_VIDEO_RECORDER" and the only file that I see is called "VIDEO_TS" and shows as unknown filetype, and 0 bytes in size. This DVD plays fine in my XBOX 360, and this Linux computer can play other DVD's fine, restricted or otherwise, but for some reason the DVD's she is giving me won't do anything with any of my video players, nor with Handbrake.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?? I have 2 DVD's with non-copy righted videos on them and I would really like to back them up for personal use. But can't seem to figure this out.

Here is the only messages VLC shows me. I will try to talk to my friend soon to ask what she uses to make these copies. There was one DVD she gave me that worked fine and normal. I was able to backup with handbrake no issues. So something must have changed on her end.

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Daniel Clem
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Can you play DVD movies (like those disks from a kiosk) in your system? If no, then you will probably need to install libdvdread and libdvdcss:

libdvdread provides the functionality that is required to access many DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS authentication and descrambling.

libdvdread probes for libdvdcss at runtime and if found, will use it to decrypt sections of the DVD as necessary

libdvdcss or libdvdcss2 is a free and open source software library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS).

In terminal run:

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

Ruslan Gerasimov
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