dvd_info - a set of utilities for accessing DVDs

Includes:

dvd_info - display information about a DVD in human-readable or JSON output, disc title, disc ID, disc chapters in OGM container format
dvd_copy - copy a DVD track to the filesystem
dvd_drive_status - display drive status: open, closed, closed with disc, or polling (Linux only)
dvd_backup - back up an entire DVD to the filesystem
dvd_player - a small DVD player using libmpv as backend
dvd_rip - a small DVD ripper using libmpv as backend
dvd_debug - print debug information about a DVD

Requirements:

libdvdread >= 4.2.1 (libdvdcss required for decryption)

Documentation:

See man pages for each program
https://github.com/beandog/dvd_info/wiki

The git repo on github is intended to build from a straight pull. There are programs I'm working on that are not in the Makefile.am yet (or there are more than are in the repo). You can, of course, try to build it, but I don't target releases here.

If you're going to do a lot of reads on a disc drive, I'd recommend mounting it so the access can be cached -- this is especially helpful when using / testing dvd_copy a lot to get chapters, titles, etc.

mount /dev/sr0 -o ro -t udf /mnt/dvd

Depending on your luck / region / disc drive / disc / local alien invasion, you may or may not be able to make an ISO directly from a disc.

If you want to give it a whirl, I recommend ddrescue:

$ ddrescue -b 2048 -n /dev/sr0 dvd.iso ddrescue.log

I try porting my code to other systems, and in addition to popular Linux distros, it runs fine on BSD systems as well.

beandog / dvd_info

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mount /dev/sr0 -o ro -t udf /mnt/dvd