Sunday 23 August 2009

Burn movies

My girlfriend gives a lecture called somehing like "movie-forum". It's very interesting that the lesson lacks of the second half of its name. I don't care. The thing is she asked me to burn some movies in DVD she borrowed from someone for her to take to the school and show them.

So I turned the computer on, logged in and...
  1. Hit Alt-F2
  2. Wrote k3b and hit enter
  3. Clicked DVD copy
  4. Clicked "Just create image" (or something similar)
  5. Clicked Accept
  6. Waited till the tray opened
  7. Inserted the blank DVD
  8. `Step 6`
  9. Click Close
  10. goto Step 3
But then I reminded of a friend of mine who is always saying a quote from someone I can't recall. If you have to do something twice, you need a for. So I made a script. With this script added some things I consider useful besides, it is made for copying various movies (not just one). The funny thing is, I never used a for =P. And I also don't know if this saves time, money or effort:

http://bit.ly/3Gu97r

I wont tell you what it does. I want you to try it. To run the script "as is", you need:

- Wodim
- DD
- Off course a dvd unit capable of burning
Uhm, you need some kde sounds as well. You know you can change that (I used WTF Public Licence again).

Just
$chmod u+x ./burn-movies
and
$./burn-movies device
Where "device" is the location of your unit in /dev/. If you omit it, it will just use /dev/dvdrw.

Have fun.