About
What is dvdbackup?
dvdbackup is a tool to rip video DVDs from the command line. It has the advantages of being small, fast, and easy to use.
Which license does dvdbackup use?
dvdbackup is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Who are the authors?
dvdbackup was written by Olaf Beck <olaf_sc@yahoo.com>, but is now maintained by Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung@gmail.com> and Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>.
Download
Where can I download dvdbackup?
Latest stable release 0.4.2 (2012-06-24):
- Source code .xz: dvdbackup-0.4.2.tar.xz
- Source code .gz: dvdbackup-0.4.2.tar.gz
Browse all releases on the Sourceforge Download section.
What is new in version 0.4.2?
- Added new command line option -p, --progress: Print progress report while copying from the DVD; thanks to flipflip for the patch.
- Added new translations from Launchpad: Danish (da), English (United Kingdom) (en_GB), Estonian (et), Portuguese (pt), Slovak (sk), Turkish (tr)
- New complete translation: English (United Kingdom) (en_GB), French (fr), Italian (it), Slovak (sk)
- Convert DVD title to lower case, but let every word in the title start with an upper case letter and replace underscores with spaces.
- Print the correct vob file name in which the read error happens. Thanks to Kolja Nowak for the patch. (Closes: #585560, LP: #648752)
- Fix DVD title detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Emanuel Haupt.
- Fix copying of fragmented chapters. Thanks to Christian Kuehnke for the patch. (LP: #648920)
For changes in older versions have a look at the NEWS file.
Can I see the source code?
You can checkout the development version with Bazaar or browse it online:
bzr branch lp:dvdbackup
After the checkout please read README.vcs.
Install
You need libdvdread (>= 0.9.6) either from Ogle or from
MPlayer (newer) and you probably want to use
libdvdcss.
Notice: If you want to use
libdvdread 4.1.3
from MPlayer then you need to apply the
DVDFileStat patch.
How do I compile dvdbackup?
./configure
make
sudo make install
Usage
See Usage or browse the manpage.
Contact
You can report bugs and feature requests on Launchpad. You can translate dvdbackup into your language on Launchpad too.
Launchpad project page: https://launchpad.net/dvdbackup
Sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdbackup/