[19.10] How does one creates a .ISO of a CSS/CPPM protected DVD?

Hello,

Am looking to do a simply dump of a movie DVD I own but it is CSS/CPPM protected. After going through k3b, brasero & handbrake I am not sure what I should do next. I have even installed DVD rippers for windoze via Crossover and nothing works.

Brasero gives me the "libdvdcss.so.2 library missing" error yet I believe that this package is properly installed. I have furthermore installed: ubuntu-restricted-extras and libdvdread4 yet that does not seem to change a thing.

Any ideas?

There is a way to reconfigure libdvdcss, which I believe normally performs extra steps to download some additional files, which might be missing:

sudo apt install libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly libdvd-pkg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg 
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras 

:point_up: Hoping still applies to 19.10. Tools like Brasero should read the disc when properly installed.


If that doesn't work, try MakeMKV, which majority of the time I've had success in ripping DVDs and Blu-rays that advertise as encrypted. You'll need to either compile it for Linux:

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224

Or add a PPA like this one:

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/03/install-makemkv-play-dvd-blurays/

Instead of creating an ISO, this will create a [sometimes large] MKV media file containing the titles, audio, subtitles as chosen from that disc. It would be worth re-encoding the file in Handbrake to produce a smaller file.

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Check the synaptic package manager to see if libdvd-pkg is installed or not, if not please install

Hrmmmmm the Software Boutique might just have it :grin:

I thought it might have been in there - it is, and the same PPA too.

So as @franksmcb hints, if you try MakeMKV , it's easier to install via Software Boutique.

Thank you! Those 3 "sudo lines" made it work on 19.10.

Cheers!