On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:06:45 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:15:43 +1200 > Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > I make 2 copies of the data onto dvd, to make sure that the first wasn't a > bad disk, but both failed in exactly the same way and k3b reported no error > in either case. The original disk was a double layer video disk, gone through > dvshrink ( still no linux products that I know of do that job as well ), and, > like I said, the version on hard disk plays perfectly. So this is why I'm > confused that the CVC version won't ): > > Steve > oops s/CVC/DVD/
