Questions tagged [dvd]
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How do I copy DVDs
Preamble:
We are down to the final stages for creating a school-play dvd. Editing is almost done, discs are printed and ready. Just need to burn the dvd's now. However, doing our pencil calculations, if we burned every disc with our production…
Stefan
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Can't mount DVD
my OS is ArchLinux running on an old ASUS laptop. Recently, I picked a DVD box-set from the store and later realized that they just won't play in my computer. Thinking that the DVD's were faulty I went back to the store and to my surprise they…
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After burning an .iso to a dvd, is there any "free space" left on the dvd?
After burning an .iso to a dvd, is there any "free space" left on the dvd, where malware could hide that was already on the dvd BEFORE the burn?
Assuming that the .iso is smaller than the #GB for the dvd-r or dvd+r (only, no rw).
Brasero "finalized"…
88species
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How to create a copy of DVD that is larger than maximum size of file on filesystem?
How to create copy of DVD, which ISO image size is larger than maximum size of file on filesystem? There is only one DVD drive.
Jakub Narębski
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Checking my DVD's current reading speed
I use Linux Mint 18.2. I learned how to change the speed of my DVD drive on this page:
https://www.hecticgeek.com/change-optical-disc-drive-speed-ubuntu-linux/
I would write
eject -x 4
to set the speed to "4".
However, how do I check what my…
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Cannot Play DVDs on Linux Mint
I recently updated my operating system to Linux Mint and everything is running fine, except my DVD/CD drive will not read DVDs. CDs are fine but DVDs will not run. Do you have any advice of what I can do?
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How do I make a playlist for a DVD with several tracks/films on it?
I have a (children's) DVD that consists of several short films. Here is a screenshot of the DVD's own menu where you can select the short film you want to see:
You can either watch from that menu, in which case you return to that menu after the…
Kjara
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Can malware write to a completely blank dvd-r/+r?
Can malware write to a completely blank dvd-r that has never been used yet, but has only been put into the computer's optical drive (on an infected computer)?
88species
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