Jason Holt wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Brandon Beattie wrote:
If all you'll be doing is playing DVD's I believe it's a better choice
to use a good dvd player. Reasons include having a dedicated clock for
One disadvantage of DVD players is that they enforce the movie
industry's megalomaniacal ideas about when you should be able to fast
forward, visit the menu, or back up your DVDs. Drives me crazy every
time I watch a movie and have to watch the freakin' studio logo for 10
seconds. I've also found PC DVD drives to be better at reading marginal
DVDs than cheap DVD players are.
I agree. Also, the best way to deal with scratched DVDs (after lens
cleaning solution and toothpaste) is:
dd if=/dev/dvd of=tmp.dvd bs=1000000 conv=noerror
ogle tmp.dvd
That way, it won't pause to retry a track while I'm watching; all
attempts at recovery happen ahead of time. Read errors usually show up
as minor artifacts.
Shane
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