I've experienced that too. And not on movie DVDs but on DVD-Rs that I've burned using k3b. After a while (months to a year) the discs are unreadable when using Linux but are okay on Windows, this on a dual-boot PC so the drive and hardware is the same.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Gerald Quimpo < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got several DVDs (all original, one disney cartoon and two BBC nature > documentaries) that I can't view in Linux. They work very well in > Windows. > There are scratches on the disney DVD, but the BBC documentaries have very > few scratches. > > Does anyone know why this happens? On ubuntu, the DVD doesn't even mount. > When I pop the DVD in, the DVD drive makes some noise for a while, X > freezes > for a bit, and then sometimes it unfreezes (takes a long time). If it > doesn't unfreeze, or I just get tired of waiting, I press the button on > the > DVD player to eject it. > > If it matters, I'm in New Zealand and I think the DVDs have some sort of > Australia/New Zealand region coding. I'm able to watch the DVDs on my > wife's > windows partition, but I'd like to view it in linux (either on her > laptop's > linux partition, or on my own laptop). >
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