Well, I received one reply sent to me privately to the subject question 
and from that, I was able to copy the DVD contents onto my hard disk. 

But so far, I have burned two apparent coasters, both of which do not 
work when I try to view the contents on my TV's DVD player. 

When I open k3b, I see five tab-headings, each of which then 
list numerous options and I have no idea which options to select. 
Burning DVDs with the default options did not work.  I see: 
Writing - Settings - Volume Desc - Filesystem - Advanced 

Under the first tab-heading, I find: 
Writing Mode: 
- Auto 
- DAO
- Overwrite 
- Incremental 
Options: 
- Simulate 
- On the fly 
- Only create image 
- Verify written data 

Under the next four tab-heading there are many more options. 

How is one supposed to figure out what combination of options 
to choose? 

 
== One reply - on Monday 24 October 2005 19:17: 
> run k3b
> select Tools -> DVD -> Copy DVD
>
> check the box that says 'only create image'
>
>
== Original inquiry: 
> > What is the easiest way to copy a DVD?
> >
> > We hired a professional photographer to take the photos of our
> > daughter's wedding under an agreement that we would have the
> > legal rights to all of the digital images, etc.  (He did a great job,
> > by the way; and the media plainly states that he releases all rights
> > to the content.  We received three CDs and one DVD and he
> > charges $15 for each additional DVD.
> >
> > I am able to burn additional CDs, and I do have a DVD burner
> > (but not a separate DVD player), and I don't know how to make DVDs.
> >
> > Whenever possible, I prefer to do things like this via the command line.
> > These two simple steps are what I use to burn CDs:
> >
> > mkisofs -r -o cdimage /home/joe
> > cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0 cdimage
> >
> > Can anybody tell me a similar simple command line procedure
> > for copying the DVD?
> >
> > I assume that I need to copy all the DVD contents to the hard drive.
> > Is there any special command to do that?
> >
> > I do have K3B but haven't used it much and the "help" pages
> > were a bit confusing to me on this point.
> >
> > joe@actionline.com
> >
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