Quickie: Burning Video DVDs Command Line Linux

Make sure you have dvdbackup and growisofs/mkisofs. (Your usual sudo apt-get install in Debian/Ubuntu).

Simply:

dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o </your/output/path>

growisofs -speed 1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw -dvd-video </your/output/path/videodir>

Example:

dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o /home/steven/Documents/VID/

growisofs -speed 1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw -dvd-video /home/steven/Documents/VID/MY_BACKUP_VIDEO/

The second path is where the first command wrote to. Basically it will be one folder deeper than that first path. It is the path that contains the VIDEO_TS directory.

Referenced from:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=133642