How to Backup Blu Ray Movies With Your PS3
Sun, Jul 5, 2009
Ok so a couple of posts ago I told everyone how to install YDL on their PS3, at this point your probably wondering what good it is, well there is one very hand thing you can do with YDL, you can back up your Blu Ray movies to your external HD which is great because you can also play them on your computer as well. Ok the first thing you need to do is get the External HD that you want and plug it into your computer if your on Mac open Disk Utility and select your drive and go to the erase tab then Mac OS X Extended partition and click erase. If your on windows go to start then right click on my computer and click manage and format your external HD to NTFS. If your on Mac follow the steps below, if your on Windows skip to Part 2:
(Note: Make sure that you DO NOT format your drive to Fat32 as it can only copy files 4GB in size so it wont work NTFS or Mac OS X Extended or others only) If you are running Mac Journaling will be enabled on most all of the partitions which makes them readable by Linux but not Writable so what you need to do is you need to force disable Journaling to do this you need to open up terminal and type this (press enter after each line) :
- diskutil list (USE THIS TO FIND YOUR EXTERNAL HD DISK NUMBERS)
- sudo diskutil disableJournal force /dev/disk?s? (REPLACE ? WITH YOUR EXTERNAL HD NUMBERS)
That method above might require you to unmount your drive first if you need to just drag your drive to the trash and it will unmount the drive. Windows should work off the bat with NTFS. **Part 2:** once all of that is done boot into Linux on your PS3 and put your blu ray disk into your PS3 and mount your drive by typing this into the YDL terminal without quotes “su root” then enter your root password then enter this into the YDL terminal “sudo mount /disk/by-label/YOUR-DRIVES-NAME /home” and then this “dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/whateveryourmovieiscalled.iso” and thats it once its done you should have a full Blu Ray movie which can be from 20GB-50GB in size. Enjoy!.
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@bilsta57 well what can i say great stuff one of fave post so far man great work
can say this i have learn so much from you and your blog
really cool
@Brad: Thanks man, no problem, glad your learning from my site :P.
@bilsta57 cool man can u do more iphone stuff like app reviews ? i have app review coming soon!
@Brad: Yeh man, I should be posting a review of the palm pre soon so check back for that but yeh I will be doing some app reviews and I will definitely be reviewing the Tom Tom App when it comes out.
cool as man cant wait pls tell me you not moving to palm pre lol tom tom app going to be rad
@Brad: Nah lol its my brothers but yeh the Tom Tom app will be sick.
cool man when will tom tom app be out do you know how much it will be ?
so lets say i rent a blu ray and do this, can i watch it using the PS3 later without the disc?
@Tyler: Hey man, Um, technically no but there are some people working on getting Blu ray backups working ;), off the XMB but yeh right now, no.
@bilsta57
thanks for all the answers man! keep up the good work.
@Tyler: Thanks man, no problem.
Wow, amazing. It just doesnt get much better than PS3 now does it?
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@John Sapp: No, it doesn’t lol, thanks again for the comment man.
Hey man,
Can this be done on the PS3 Slim and how do i do it on Windows again,
Thanks
@Jarrod: Hey man, nah the PS3 Slim is not powerful enough to run Linux so it cant do this unfortunately. Thanks for the comment man. For windows I think Slysoft make some programs for that http://www.slysoft.com
Unofrtunately this is not possibile anymore with the Install Other OS feature disabled..i would like to try it..however good article! :)
Where do you download some blue ray movie trailers in HD ?.’.