VOBCOPY(1)

NAME
vobcopy - copy (rip) files from a dvd to the harddisk

SYNOPSIS
vobcopy [-b size[bkmg] ] [-e size[bkmg] ] [-f] [-h] [-i input-dir ] [-l] [-n title-number ] [-o output-dir ] [-t name ] [-v [-v]] [-I] [-V] [-1 aux_output_dir1 ] [-2 aux_output_dir2 ] [-3 aux_output_dir3 ] [-4 aux_output_dir4 ]

DESCRIPTION
vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to harddisk, decrypting them on the way (thanks to libdvdread) and merges them into file(s) with the name extracted from the DVD. It checks for enough free space on the destination drive and compares the copied size to the size on DVD (in case something went wrong during the copying). It should definitely work on linux and now on FreeBSD too. vobcopy without any options will copy the title with the most chapters into files of 2GB size into the current working directory.

OPTIONS

-b size[bkmg]
    begins to copy from the specified offset-size. Modifiers like b for 512-bytes, k for kilo-bytes, m for mega- and g for giga-bytes can be appended to the number. Example: vobcopy -b 500m will start to copy from 500MB onward till the end.

-e size[bkmg]
    similar to -b, this options lets you specify some size to stop before the end.

-f  force the output to the specified directory even if vobcopy thinks there is not enough free space

-h  print the command line options available

-i input-dir
    provide vobcopy with the path to the mounted dvd drive

-l  write data into one file (needs large file support (LFS))

-n title-number
    specify which title vobcopy shall copy (default is 1). On the dvd, vts_01_x.vob specify the first title (mostly main film).

-o output-dir
    specify the output-directory of the data.

-t name
    you can give the file a name if you don't like the one from dvd, or, what might be of interest to some people, give "stdout" and get the file to stdout! Useful for pipeing it to /dev/null ;-) If you forget to pipe it to some place, your terminal will get garbled, so remember that typing "reset" and then Enter will rescue you. If you want to give it names like "Huh I like this movie", do it in quotation marks.

-v  prints more information about whats going on (more verbose).

-v -v
    prints the information given on command line into a log-file in /tmp/ for inclusion into a bugreport.

-I  prints information about the titles, chapters and angles on the dvd.

-V  prints version number.

-1 auxiliary-output-dir1
    if the data doesn't fit on the first output-directory (specified behind -o) writing will continue here (and after -2 there and -3 and -4) -> the files will be split according to the remaining free space (try specifying the path _directly_ behind -1, _no_ space in between if you have troubles, this might be even necessary at -o...)

BUGS
Vobcopy is still under heavy development. So expect some. There *might* be problems for users who's system is not large-file ready. If so, please get back to me.

AUTHOR
Robos <robos@users.sourceforge.net>