How to burn a region free DVD from a DVD movie locked to a specific region?
A friend of mine have a DVD movie locked to a different region. Hopefully, I seem to have a region free DVD player in my laptop.
How can I burn a region free copy of his DVD movie so my friend can watch it?
Solution 1:
You could give "K9Copy - KDE tool to backup DVDs" a try.
It's very much capable of disassembling the individual streams, putting them back together (even customising the selection of audio/video tracks) and then burning it to a new disc.
It seems it's not even capable of putting a region code onto a blank DVD, so (ab)use that as a feature!
A sort of dedicated tutorial on how to do this is on this random blog. Comes down to:
- Select DVD source.
- Select "Rip and encode" as destination.
- Select the elements you want to "rip". It's useful to leave out some unwanted streams/titles/chapters.
- Select some encoding options, but just use "copy" to leave the contents of the streams untouched.
- Once finished it will ask you to load a blank DVD to burn.
Solution 2:
I've used Brasero for this. It's fairly trivial.
Just make an image of the DVD, then burn the image to a blank one.