On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:21 -0700, Horst wrote: > >From: Chris LeBlanc <[email protected]> > >Sent: Wed, October 27, 2010 2:39:10 PM > >Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] DVD, Region Code 2, 5.8 GiB, 2 Layers -- HowTo ? > > > > Chris, > Thanks for summarizing on PAL vs. NTSC, and both TV(over the 'air') and > digital(DVD), plus the anachronistic(at least so I think) HUE correction. The > latter seems useful/needed when correcting for a skewed phase modulation > situation (non-issue in the digital world) > > Also thanks to Alan for several suggestions for playing videos on Linux > (that's > what I want), and how to get region-free players. > > >As for Horst, I don't think the problem is inherently the region of the DVD, > >since the other Region 2 DVD reads just fine. I think there is something > >about > >the disc that his drive just doesn't like. > > RIGHT ON. K3b failed in no time with "Disk encrypted" msg (no funny drive > searching and clicking like with disks that are damaged). And as I said, a > simple cp command did fine with some of the files but failed on others. I > forgot > > to let cfdisk look at the file system. Nor did I try a straight dd of > /dev/xxx. > I guess, encryption on a DVD is a different animal than with a file or file > system image on a hard drive. In the latter case you can still look at the > streaming garbage -- the DVD drive refuses to even deliver that. Conspiracy. > > >problem in the manufacturing of the disc itself. You should wait until you > >have > > >seen it played on another player. > YES. I'll know more by Thu. night -- I gave the DVD to someone with a > region-free player.
Disc encryption is another issue. You need to obtain a copy of libdvdcss. http://www.freshrpms.net/ has a copy if you use Fedora. Or go to http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
