k9copy on Ubuntu 13.10

k9copy is no longer available after Ubuntu 12.10, simply because the author does not believe in Linux anymore due to the war between different desktop & distro :-(
http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/web/index.php/en/nouveautes/12-theend
Thank you Jean-Michel for this wonderful program!

If you want to use k9copy, you can use the deb from 12.10:
64-bit:
sudo wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/103736674/k9copy_2.3.8-3_amd64.deb

32-bit:
sudo wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/103714201/k9copy_2.3.8-3_i386.deb

sudo apt-get -f install

Enjoy!

dvd burning failed in ubuntu gutsy

Not sure if this started to happen after gutsy upgrade, but DVD burning failed on random basis… until I run the following commands everytime before burning then it would be successful.

hdparm -d1 -X66 -c1 -Y /dev/hdc
hdparm /dev/hdc

extract WAV from DVD with mplayer

I found several post on the web using transcode, unfortunately it didn’t work well for me and kept on coredump.

It turns out mplayer can do the same job with less trouble, below is a script that allows you to extract tracks from a specific range of chapters of a track with selected audio channel.

#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 33`;
do
`echo mplayer -vo null -ao pcm -ao pcm:file=track$i.wav:fast dvd://2 -chapter $i-$i -aid 129;`
done

1 33 - this means to rip from chapter 1 to 33
dvd://2 - this is the track that you want to extract the chapters from
aid 129 - 129 is the audio stream ID that you want to select

You can use lsdvd to get the details of the DVD.
use soundconverter to convert it to MP3.

References:
http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/186.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.txt