I got a European movie on DVD I am unable to play or even copy. The DVD is new,
and no wear visible.
The only app I got to play some broken, pixelated scenes is SMPlayer.
I can't even copy some of the files from the command line (see below).
Trying to copy those files from an XP box is rejected with some 'encryption'
msg
(I forgot exact wording)
Some key parameters :
Region Code 2, PAL, 5.8 GiB, 2 Layers
For full K3b media info see below.
So I guess, I need apps that remove the region code (either for copying, or in
DVD firmware?), then lossy compress the 5.8 GB into something that fits on a
regular DVD, but not sure about the 2 Layers issue?
PAL should be a non-issue on PC/3y old hardware, right?
When I search the web, solutions seem plentiful, but murky. Murky in that it's
not really clear or clean what they want me to install on my box (kubuntu 9.10).
Anything from official Ubuntu repository?
Any ideas, other than buying a region code 0 player? ............Horst
=============== cmd line (some numbers set to 111 )===============
VIDEO_TS$ ll VTS_01_0*
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967111 4294967111 77821 2010-07-02 01:33 VTS_01_0.IFO
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967111 4294967111 77821 2010-07-02 01:33 VTS_01_0.BUP
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967111 4294967111 140185111 2010-07-02 01:33 VTS_01_0.VOB
VIDEO_TS$ cp VTS_01_0* ~/Desktop/DVD_tmp/
cp: reading `VTS_01_0.VOB': Input/output error
VIDEO_TS$ file VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_01_0.VOB: ERROR: cannot read `VTS_01_0.VOB' (Input/output error)
VIDEO_TS$
============ K3b (some info x'ed out) ==========
Type: DVD-ROM
Media ID: unknown
Capacity: 676:43:xx min (5.8 GiB)
Used Capacity: 676:43:xx min (5.8 GiB)
Rewritable: no
Appendable: no
Empty: no
Layers: 2
Sessions: 1
ISO9660 Filesystem Info
System Id: -
Volume Id: XXXXXXXXXXXX
Volume Set Id: UNDEFINED
Publisher Id: -
Preparer Id: -
Application Id: -
Volume Size: 5.8 GiB (2,048 B * 3,045,24x blocks = 6,236,665,xxx B)
Tracks
Type Attributes First-Last Sector Length
1 (Data) no copy/uninterrupted 0 - 3045246 3045247 (676:43:xx)
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