On 17/03/12 18:37, James Harper wrote:
I'm having a bit more success with importing some dvd's into mythtv, but the 'bad sector' copy protection is painful. dd_rescue allows me to make an image but the deliberate bad sectors turns a 30 minute process into a 1 hour 30 minute process as reading bad sectors is terribly slow.
The bad sectors are almost always going to be in a chunk (512 sectors for the Toy Story 3 DVD I'm importing now) so I was wondering if there exists an application to do it a bit smarter, eg if you get 4 bad sectors in a row, jump forward some small number of sectors (eg 64) and keep doing that until a good sector is found, then work backwards to the last bad sector, and then assume that the sectors inbetween are bad. That would dramatically speed up the process...
Does such an app exists?
Yes, search for "bittorrent" in your package manager ;)