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Now that we’ve looked at doing various things to multimedia files and burning
them to a DVD, let’s examine how to make a copy of a dual layer DVD. If
you have a dual layer burner, then there’s no reason to read further.
If you’re like me howevever, and you have a single layer (4.7GB) drive
and DVDs then this will be a helpful guide.

A note on piracy and legality. Please only use this tutorial to make
copies of dual layer discs you have authored yourself, or which fall
into some open license scheme. Check with local copyright laws if you
must make a copy of licensed material and make sure you’re doing so
legally. (sigh)

Now, on to a wonderful tool that I owe much too - xDVDshrink!

Here’s the step by step guide to setting up xDVDShrink on your linux
install. I use Ubuntu (6.06), so this guide will be partial to that
distro.

1. First things first, we’re going do download xDVDShrink as an RPM, so we’ll need a tool to convert that package into a .deb.

sudo apt-get install alien

Now that we have alien installed, let’s download xDVDShrink. You can get it here. Grab the mdk.noarch.rpm file.

Go to the directory where you saved the rpm and issue the following command:

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