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Hi, everyone! Welcome back to Ask the New Guy! If you have a simple question, contact me at copil.yanez@gmail.com. Today’s question is: Q: I have a DVD of Brozen that my kids watch so often, I’m afraid it’s going to wear out. How do I make a backup copy just in case? A: I loved Brozen, the totally non-existent, non-infringing movie I just made up about two bros living in a frozen kingdom with their magical snowman, Aloof! Like you, my kid is wearing a hole in the DVD. In my case, though, it’s because he keeps trying to watch it by scraping it along the floor under his shoe. Is that the same problem you’re having? No? Well, no matter. I think we’re after the same solution. But first, a word about piracy. I am a firm believer that artists should be paid for their work. The specific scenario I’m talking about here involves making a backup copy derived from a legally purchased DVD. Everyone’s butt covered now? Go ahead, I’ll wait while you check. Good, let’s move on. Now, if you’ve read any of my past answers, you’ll know I tend to muck my way through tutorials like a 70’s swinger might organize his first party: in a haze of confusion, shame, weird stains you can’t account for, and lots and lots of screaming. This time is no different. So toss your keys into that fishbowl over there, and let’s jump right in! First stop, Google. I type in “make backup movie dvd ubuntu.” Of the hits that come back, a lot of them reference Brasero, so I go looking for that in the Unity search box.

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Aujourd'hui, la question est:

Q: J'ai un DVD de Brozen que mes enfants regardent très souvent, je crains qu'il ne s'use. Comment puis-je faire une copie de sauvegarde au cas où?

R: J'ai adoré Brozen, le film complètement inexistant (: faux sens ?), non licencieux (: faux sens ?) que je viens de regarder (: faux sens ?) sur deux frères vivant dans un royaume glacé avec leur bonhomme de neige magique, très loin !

Comme toi, mon enfant est en train de creuser dans le DVD. Dans mon cas, cependant, c'est parce qu'il continue d'essayer de le regarder en le grattant par terre sous sa chaussure. Tu as le même problème ? Non ? Bah, peu importe. Je pense que nous cherchons la même solution.

Mais d'abord, un mot sur le piratage. Je croit fermement que les artistes doivent être rémunérés pour leur travail. Le scénario spécifique dont je parle ici consiste à faire une copie de sauvegarde provenant d'un DVD acheté légalement. Tout le monde est bien propre ? Allez-y, je vais attendre pendant que vous vérifiez. Bon, continuons.

Maintenant, si vous avez lu une de mes précédentes réponses, vous savez que j'ai tendance à me moquer des tutoriaux comme un danseur de swing des années 70 pourrait organiser sa première fête: dans un nuage de confusion, de honte, de trucs bizarres sur lesquels on ne peut pas compter, et beaucoup, beaucoup de cris. Cette fois-ci n'est pas différente. Alors jetez vos clés dans cet aquarium là-bas, et allons-y gaiment !

Premier arrêt, Google. J'écris « effectuer sauvegardes film dvd ubuntu ». Parmi les résultats qui arrivent, beaucoup d'entre eux référencent Brasero, alors je vais regarder ceci, dans la boite de recherche Unity.

One of the things I love about Ubuntu is that it lets me work the way my mind does. I tend not to keep a lot of things in memory if I’m not going to use them regularly. I like to save that space for my astronaut erotica. Can you even imagine the stuff you could do in zero-g? Now you don’t have to. Anyway, the Unity search field lets me forget where all those programs and files that I use once in a blue moon are located. Instead, I just type in what I’m looking for, and get what I need quickly. As it turns out, Brasero has been a default program in Ubuntu for quite some time, so when I type it into the search field, it comes up instantly. The Brasero menu is pretty straight forward: You can burn music, video and data to a CD or DVD. For our purposes, we want to make a 1:1 copy of a DVD, so we select Disc Copy. In the window that pops up, you can select your disc in the top pull-down menu. For some reason, the Brozen name wouldn’t appear in the upper pull-down until I removed the DVD and reinserted it (which apparently is the DVD player equivalent of jiggling the key in the lock to get it to work). In the bottom pull-down menu, you’ll select where to put the backup copy you’re creating. If you want a hard copy backup, obviously you’ll need a DVD writer.

I have a DVD writer, but no DVDs handy. Honestly, I actually despise physical media. I can’t stand that we have to go “places” to “get” movies and music. There’s always so much sun and fresh air involved (*shudder*). That was the Blockbuster model, and I’m still bitter about the HUNDREDS of dollars I spent in late fees with them.This is the 21st Century! If I can’t have a digital file flung at my IP address at the speed of light, then the DVD better be delivered by a sentient artificial intelligence that will make popcorn for me and put the DVD into the tray (neither of which I have the patience or intelligence to do myself). Since I have no DVDs right now, I select “Image File,” which is an ISO file, similar to the files you burn to DVD and use to install Ubuntu. Now click on “Properties” and tell Brasero where to put your newly burned ISO file. All set? Okay, click “Create Image” to make your Brozen ISO. What’s it doing now? I don’t know. It’s magic to me, and I half expect a genie to pop out of my computer and present me a bill for all the wonderful stuff he’s been doing for me all these years. Also, he’ll be blind because of what he’s seen. Sorry, genie dude. Anyway, you’ll see the progress as your ISO file is created. When Brasero finishes sacrificing goats to the Norse God of DVD burning, or whatever it does to give me what I want, you have a new ISO file. You can now turn around and burn a new DVD using that file. You could have done this all in one go by selecting the DVD burner as the “destination” folder in the last step. But with the ISO file, you can store it on your computer and then make a hard copy when you need it. Let’s do that now.

Take out the original DVD and put in a blank disk. Click on the Brozen.iso and select “Burn image to disk.” In the top menu you’ll select the ISO image you just created, and in the bottom menu you’ll choose your blank disk. Click “Create Image” and Bob’s your uncle! When Brasero is done burning you a shiny new DVD, put that bad boy in a safe place for when the inevitable happens and your DVD ends up coated in peanut butter and cracked in three. That’s pretty much it! But you probably want to double-check that your video plays back without any glitches (slowing down the burning speed via the “Properties” menu before you burn the DVD will help with this). To check the playback, fire up VLC, a robust media player that plays just about every format known to humanity. Unlike Brasero, VLC isn’t installed by default, but you can find it in the Ubuntu Software Center. Once you have VLC running, go to the “Media” menu. If you’re checking the hard copy DVD, select “Open disk” and navigate to the DVD in your DVD player. If you’re checking your ISO file, select “Open file” and select your ISO. In either case, if everything worked properly, playback should begin shortly!

One last step to keep everything as neat and tidy as possible. And by neat and tidy, I mean legal. Or (if you’re in America) as legal as possible given conflicting legal guidance on the issue. Find the digital ISO file you used to create your DVD. Delete that file (making sure to empty the trash so it’s no longer available on your computer). The only copies you should have now are your original purchased DVD and the “archive” copy that goes into storage with the old snow tires you never got around to putting on your car and now it’s Spring. A dark day will come, my friend, when the kids are screaming for that adorkable snowman that bears absolutely no resemblance to the snowman from a completely different movie with a similar name, but isn’t the same because I just told you it wasn’t. Anyway, you’ll open the Brozen DVD case to find shards of what used to be a playable disk. As they cascade through your fingers like so many digital snowflakes, you’ll remember that tiny moment of lucidity when you made a backup copy. Now go ahead and enjoy Brozen, the charming story of a bro looking for lost love, and another looking for lost beer. Or something. I usually nap when the kids are watching a movie. Good luck, and happy Ubuntuing!