My first experience with the internet was in the early 90s, when our high school computer science class went to a programming competition held at one of the state universities. While wandering through the library I came across a gopher terminal attached to the campus mainframe. It wasn’t much, and at one point I thought I locked it up, but tapping through hyperlinks on that amber monochrome display felt pretty amazing to me at the time.
Emil Muzz
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Replying to say dd is probably the better method for archival, but this works for me in most cases.
This should work for -most- DVDs, unless they’re using some unique copy protection.
The following packages are needed: dvdbackup, libdvdcss, cdrtools
To get info on an inserted DVD (and check it can be read): dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -I
To rip the DVD to a directory (-M will mirror the disc): dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -o /path/to/store/dvd/ -M
And then to write the directory contents to an iso image: mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o /path/to/save/movie.iso /path/of/ripped/dvd
From there you can archive the iso, mount it for playback, etc. My next step was a combination of MakeMKV and Handbrake to encode the main movie (H.265 MKV 480p30) for storage on a media server.
I’ll second this as someone who used to administer an AMI headend. This is essentially an industrial wifi access point. This device connects to the utility’s operations network, and provides connectivity to smart meters in the area.
While I never had one I remember following the build page, and I was crushed when the price point was far too high for me to even consider getting one. However I did ride around with a carputer for some time before an affordable commercial head unit with CD/MP3 capability became available.
It was an off the shelf IBM desktop in the backseat, powered by an inverter, and controlled by a numeric keypad stuck to the center console with some velcro. Getting music on it required hauling the whole thing in the house, but at the time it felt pretty awesome to have pieced together a solution that worked.