On Sat 24 Mar 2007 19:47:53 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I've made a copy of a dvd, which has generated the following directory tree: > > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Mar 24 18:42 AUDIO_TS > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 400 Mar 24 18:51 VIDEO_TS
Obviously a video DVD. > What I want to do it to put this onto a dvd so that I can play it. I > know I'm being simplistic, but why can I play this when it resides > on the hard disk, but when burned onto a dvd, the initial titles are > displayed, but the player locks up before showing the menu? Video DVDs must fulfil certain requirements as to content as well as layout of that content. If you do a disk copy, you'll be fine, if you copy the files only, it won't work. Also, if the DVD is copy-protected, you can still read many of the files, and all of the files if you disable the drive's error correction (they deliberately insert bad checksums to fool the normal standard process). However that still doesn't get you anywhere if the content is encrypted. Assuming you have copyright and there's no copy protection (and the original disk is fully functional), a disk copy will do the job just fine. Did you check you don't just have a burn error or bad media? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
