How to Copy DVDs

DVD Copying Using Free Software on Free Operating Systems

We want to learn how to create a copy of a DVD that you already own. Yes, legally own, of course. Use this information responsibly. As with almost any form of knowledge, like "Hydrogen burns in the presence of oxygen!", it could be used to do something that might be illegal where you live.

Maybe you are going on a business trip and you would like to take along a DVD that you own. But you don't want to run the risk of forgetting it and leaving it in the DVD player in the hotel room, losing your only copy of what might have been difficult to find.

For example, the legendarily rare director's cut of Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam.

In recent years it has become quite common to use a video transfer service to preserve old VHS tapes on DVD discs. You can easily use a VHS to DVD converter or a digital capture device to preserve VHS tapes digitally.

Background — CSS, DeCSS, and libdvdcss

Almost all commercially produced DVDs use the Content Scramble System or CSS. It is a rather weak stream cipher system using a 40-bit key. A 40-bit keyspace is not all that large to start with, and the implementation makes the system even weaker by only using a much smaller subset of that keyspace. 450 MHz x86 processors are adequate for a brute force attack requiring only minutes.

To briefly explain the CSS architecture, a set of player keys is known to DVD drive manufacturers and, no surprise, also known to others.

The lead-in area of the DVD has a disk key, and there will be at least one title key for the encrypted video file itself. Both the disk key and title keys are stored in ciphertext form. The title key is encrypted with the disk key, and the disk key is encrypted with the player key.

Do not look at these colors!

This gaudy "Free Speech Flag" embodies a 16-byte number that we are not supposed to know in the hexadecimal (R,G,B) values of its five stripes followed by the byte 0xc0.

The disk and title keys are just five bytes long, 40 bits. The player keys are six bytes long, and are considered as trade secrets. Lawyers can insist on strange things that make no sense. See, for example, the AACS encryption key controversy and the strange legal concept that somehow there are numbers that are illegal for you to know or utter. There is a haiku description of the CSS algorithm and its reversal that reveals the use of these keys and even the value of one.

The DeCSS algorithm is based on a reverse engineered player key. If you accept the premise that laws can make it illegal to know certain numbers, then DeCSS should not be used as it's based on that forbidden knowledge.

An alternative is the libdvdcss library, which generates some possible player keys and then, if necessary, launches a brute force search of the very limited key space. It is available for Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS X, BeOS, and even Windows.

K3b DVD authoring and burning tool

OK, That's More Than Enough Background, How Do I Copy a DVD?

You could just fire up K3b and select Copy a DVD from its menu — and that might work for you. It works in those cases where the libdvdcss library can quickly guess a working player key, and that seems to be well over 90% of the time! But if libdvdcss can't guess the key, K3b doesn't seem to allow it the chance to launch a brute force attack.

The tool of choice is dvdbackup. Use dvdbackup to copy the file system of the DVD onto your file system, and then use K3b to burn the resulting directory structure to a DVD. Simply put the DVD in the drive and call dvdbackup. The -M option, for "mirror", does just that — it creates a mirror or copy of the DVD file system structure in the current working directory. It creates a subdirectory, the title as found on the DVD. Under there is the subdirectory VIDEO_TS that must exist on a valid video DVD. If it reports that it can't open the default device /dev/dvd, tell it where the device is with something like -i /dev/sr0 on Linux or -i /dev/cd0 on FreeBSD or -i /dev/cd0c on OpenBSD. You may also need to add -o . to explicitly tell it to put the result in the current directory.

% mkdir ~/work-area
% cd ~/work-area
% dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -M -o .
[ ... much output and some time ... ]
% tree ~/work-area
~/work-area
`-- DÜNYAYI_KURTARAN_ADAM
    `-- VIDEO_TS
        |-- VIDEO_TS.BUP
	|-- VIDEO_TS.IFO
	|-- VIDEO_TS.VOB
	|-- VTS_01_0.BUP
	|-- VTS_01_0.IFO
	|-- VTS_01_0.VOB
	|-- VTS_01_1.VOB
	|-- VTS_01_2.VOB
	|-- VTS_01_3.VOB
	|-- VTS_01_4.VOB
	|-- VTS_02_0.BUP
	|-- VTS_02_0.IFO
	|-- VTS_02_0.VOB
	|-- VTS_02_1.VOB
	|-- VTS_03_0.BUP
	|-- VTS_03_0.IFO
	|-- VTS_03_0.VOB
	|-- VTS_03_1.VOB
[ ... and so on, as needed ... ]

Installing the Needed Software

Your operating system distribution may have its software packaged in such a way that it's fairly simple to add what you need:

• Mageia Linux —

  # yum install dvdbackup libdvdcss2 k3b 

• CentOS and Red Hat Linux — First, add the RPMforge repository. On older systems you would add the below lines to the file /etc/yum.conf, but on newer systems add it as a new file in the directory /etc/yum.repos.d, giving it a meaningful name like rpmforge.repo:

  ### RPMforge Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag - http://rpmforge.net/
  [rpmforge]
  name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
  baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/rpmforge
  mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
  enabled = 1
  protect = 0
  gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
  gpgcheck = 1
  

  With that in place, just run this command:
  

  # yum install dvdbackup libdvdcss k3b 

• Ubuntu Linux —

  % sudo apt-get install dvdbackup libdvdread3-dev libdvdcss2 k3b 

• FreeBSD —

  # pkg install dvdbackup libdvdcss k3b 

• OpenBSD —

  # pkg_add dvdbackup libdvdcss k3b 

You can always download the source code for libdvdcss, dvdbackup, and K3b and build them from source. Build libdvdcss first, so the other components can use it.

Error Messages — Don't Panic!

Expect to see some error messages, but then expect the automated cryptanalysis to find the needed keys:

% time dvdbackup -M
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x000001a0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00005a20
libdvdread: Elapsed time 3
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00006c40
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x001a0d40
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x001a0d60
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB (0x001a0d60)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 9
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x001ab560
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x001ab580
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x001b8820
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x001be5a0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 9
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x001ab560
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x001ab580
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x001b8820
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x001be5a0
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB (0x001be5a0)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x001be6e0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x001c6420
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB (0x001c6420)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x001c6560
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x001c9280
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB (0x001c9280)!!
[ ... and so on ... ]
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_18_0.VOB at 0x0035d240
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_18_1.VOB at 0x0035d260
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_18_1.VOB (0x0035d260)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 109
libdvdread: Found 18 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 662
180.839u 103.750s 34:32.04 13.7%        0+0k 44768192+16338792io 0pf+0w

In that specific run of dvdbackup, 10-15 minutes was required to recover all the keys and the remaining 20-25 minutes for the data transfer of about 7.8 GB. The result played just fine.

I think that what we see in the output are warnings that the initial and fairly trivial attempt to guess a file's key failed, and then it was found after some automated cryptanalysis requiring the reported number of seconds.

You may not notice this, but one result of this process is a directory ~/.dvdcss/TITLE containing a set of files. Each file's name comes from the hexadecimal ID, and it contains the key for that file. Later runs of a libdvdcss program could simply read and use those keys.

The last component reported for that above example, is the VOB (Video OBject) container file VTS_18_1.VOB, associated with hexadecimal ID 0x0035d260. We can see what its encryption key was with the following:

% cat ~/.dvdcss/DÜNYAYI_KURTARAN_ADAM/000035d240
ce:72:42:2c:f9

Some DVDs use the same key for every file, some pick a new key for every two or three files, some have a unique key for each file. In many cases the keys differ by only a single byte, possibly just incrementing from one to the next.

Here are the results you're looking for, the data structure to be burned onto a DVD:

% ls -shR ~/work-area
DÜNYAYI_KURTARAN_ADAM:
total 4.0K
4.0K VIDEO_TS/

DÜNYAYI_KURTARAN_ADAM/VIDEO_TS:
total 7.8G
 28K VIDEO_TS.BUP  472K VTS_04_1.VOB   20K VTS_10_0.BUP   20K VTS_15_0.IFO
 28K VIDEO_TS.IFO   20K VTS_05_0.BUP   20K VTS_10_0.IFO   33M VTS_15_0.VOB
 45M VIDEO_TS.VOB   20K VTS_05_0.IFO   18M VTS_10_0.VOB  472K VTS_15_1.VOB
 76K VTS_01_0.BUP   63M VTS_05_0.VOB  472K VTS_10_1.VOB   20K VTS_16_0.BUP
 76K VTS_01_0.IFO  472K VTS_05_1.VOB   20K VTS_11_0.BUP   20K VTS_16_0.IFO
9.1M VTS_01_0.VOB   20K VTS_06_0.BUP   20K VTS_11_0.IFO   27M VTS_16_0.VOB
1.1G VTS_01_1.VOB   20K VTS_06_0.IFO   19M VTS_11_0.VOB  472K VTS_16_1.VOB
1.1G VTS_01_2.VOB   23M VTS_06_0.VOB  472K VTS_11_1.VOB   72K VTS_17_0.BUP
1.1G VTS_01_3.VOB  472K VTS_06_1.VOB   20K VTS_12_0.BUP   72K VTS_17_0.IFO
209M VTS_01_4.VOB   20K VTS_07_0.BUP   20K VTS_12_0.IFO  900K VTS_17_0.VOB
 20K VTS_02_0.BUP   20K VTS_07_0.IFO   33M VTS_12_0.VOB  1.1G VTS_17_1.VOB
 20K VTS_02_0.IFO   33M VTS_07_0.VOB  472K VTS_12_1.VOB  1.1G VTS_17_2.VOB
 32K VTS_02_0.VOB  472K VTS_07_1.VOB   20K VTS_13_0.BUP  851M VTS_17_3.VOB
 84M VTS_02_1.VOB   20K VTS_08_0.BUP   20K VTS_13_0.IFO   40K VTS_18_0.BUP
 20K VTS_03_0.BUP   20K VTS_08_0.IFO   33M VTS_13_0.VOB   40K VTS_18_0.IFO
 20K VTS_03_0.IFO   32M VTS_08_0.VOB  472K VTS_13_1.VOB   32K VTS_18_0.VOB
 32K VTS_03_0.VOB  472K VTS_08_1.VOB   20K VTS_14_0.BUP  1.1G VTS_18_1.VOB
106M VTS_03_1.VOB   20K VTS_09_0.BUP   20K VTS_14_0.IFO   69M VTS_18_2.VOB
 20K VTS_04_0.BUP   20K VTS_09_0.IFO   33M VTS_14_0.VOB
 20K VTS_04_0.IFO   68M VTS_09_0.VOB  472K VTS_14_1.VOB
 47M VTS_04_0.VOB  472K VTS_09_1.VOB   20K VTS_15_0.BUP

What About K3b Burning Errors?

For some reason, my old Pioneer DVR-110D DVD-RW drive had no problems burning DVDs, including dual-layer DVDs, but it failed with CD-R media some of the time. I get a cryptic "Error code 254" reported from K3b, which got it from cdrecord. There's a simple workaround. Maybe you want to use K3b to create the image. Just create the image ISO file, and then burn it with cdrecord after discovering the device name. See how I use "4,0,0" in the command after discovering that it is correct for my system — you will have to discover your own device designation:

% cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus1:
	4,0,0   400) 'HP      ' 'DVD Writer 1140r' 'FH25' Removable CD-ROM
	4,1,0   401) *
	4,2,0   402) *
	4,3,0   403) *
	4,4,0   404) *
	4,5,0   405) *
	4,6,0   406) *
	4,7,0   407) *
% cdrecord -v dev=4,0,0 whatever.iso

What's the real cause of the error? I suppose I could look through the K3b diagnostic output and see how it's misapplying cdrecord and then go into the K3b setup and force it to work differently. Or, just as easily if not more so, simply type the above command...

The program will try to find a drive specific speed by looking in /etc/wodim.conf, the environment variable CDR_SPEED, and then querying the drive, in that order. If you have write errors and need to specify the speed, do it like this:

% cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=1,1,0 whatever.iso

Sony DVDs, Extra Programs, and Root Kits

Sony is notorious for having inserted malicious root kits in CDs, see the excellent detailed analysis by Mark Russinovich for background on this. The Sony malware is secretly installed and run without your knowledge or consent, and a hacker could use it to gain and maintain access to your computer. If the Sony malware is installed on a Windows computer, attempts to remove it will damage or destroy your operating system.

The dvdbackup tool creates a subdirectory named for the DVD volume name, and then it creates two subdirectories within that, AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. The AUDIO_TS directory will be empty.

Some Sony DVDs, however, contain more. Executable files in the root of the file system and subdirectory JACKET_P contain what appear to be three small MPEG files, and files contains one executable. This is the result of using the K3b "Copy Medium" operation and simply creating an image file:

 % /bin/ls -lF . JACKET_P files
 .:
 total 7776
 dr-xr-xr-x 2 4294967295 4294967295      40 2010-10-26 18:15 AUDIO_TS/
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295      34 2006-03-29 12:58 AUTORUN.INF*
 dr-xr-xr-x 2 4294967295 4294967295     196 2010-10-26 18:16 JACKET_P/
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 4171126 2009-08-20 20:41 MAC_clickme*
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 3775838 2009-08-19 16:23 PC_clickme.exe*
 dr-xr-xr-x 2 4294967295 4294967295    5032 2010-10-26 18:24 VIDEO_TS/
 dr-xr-xr-x 2 4294967295 4294967295      88 2010-08-12 20:52 files/

 JACKET_P:
 total 26
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 20480 2010-10-26 18:16 J00___5L.MP2*
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295  4096 2010-10-26 18:16 J00___5M.MP2*
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295  2048 2010-10-26 18:16 J00___5S.MP2*

 files:
 total 56
 -r-xr-xr-x 1 4294967295 4294967295 57344 2001-05-02 22:57 go.exe*

		Those huge UID and GID values?  4294967295 = 2^32 - 1

Let's see what those extra files are:

 % cat AUTORUN.INF 
 [autorun]
 open = PC_Clickme.exe
 % cat -A AUTORUN.INF
 [autorun]^M$
 open = PC_Clickme.exe^M$
 % file MAC_clickme PC_clickme.exe JACKET_P/* files/*
 MAC_clickme:           header for PowerPC PEF executable
 PC_clickme.exe:        PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
 JACKET_P/J00___5L.MP2: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex
 JACKET_P/J00___5M.MP2: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex
 JACKET_P/J00___5S.MP2: MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex
 files/go.exe:          PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit

J00___5L.MP2 is 720x480 pixels, J00___5M.MP2 is 176x112 pixels, and J00___5S.MP2 does not seem to contain video data.

As for the program PC_clickme.exe, which is automatically run if your Windows OS honors the AUTORUN.INF file, it contains some code which modifies your registry. Why does this program call RegSetValueEx() and RegCreateKeyEx()?

% hexdump -C PC_clickme.exe | less
[ ... many lines of output deleted ... ]
0001fd00  4a be 00 00 58 be 00 00  6a be 00 00 7c be 00 00  |J...X...j...|...|
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[ ... many lines of output deleted ... ]

I found that a copy of this DVD made with the K3b "Copy Medium" operation would not play in my Samsung DVD-1080P9.

However, a copy made by using dvdbackup and then burning a DVD with just the full VIDEO_TS and empty AUDIO_TS directories would play just fine.

My conclusion: The added programs and/or the lack of some data not copied in the K3b "Copy Medium" operation make for unplayable copies.