Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: [...] Anyway, how can I tell cd(4) to give me more error output? How can I access the DVD at the bottom-most layer? Something line sending a Test Unit Ready command? Or checking if the drive recognizes an inserted medium? camcontrol tur will do that. Best

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-05 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 04 May 2007 21:15:23 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the external drive, but it's working just fine with the internal one. It's really driving me

acd and iostat [was Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs]

2007-05-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Scott Long wrote: Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: [..] PS: why is iostat(1) not working for acd(4) devices? Because acd doesn't make use of the standard kernel facilities that make iostat work. It's a deliberate choice by the driver author. Same for systat -vm of course.

Re: acd and iostat [was Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs]

2007-05-04 Thread Scott Long
Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2007, Scott Long wrote: Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: [..] PS: why is iostat(1) not working for acd(4) devices? Because acd doesn't make use of the standard kernel facilities that make iostat work. It's a deliberate choice by the driver author. Same for

Re: acd and iostat [was Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs]

2007-05-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Scott Long wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2007, Scott Long wrote: Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: [..] PS: why is iostat(1) not working for acd(4) devices? Because acd doesn't make use of the standard kernel facilities that make iostat

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On 5/4/07, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can I read and mount the DVD, but mplayer/xine are still unable to play the DVD? (It works fine on the internal, ATA attached, crappy NEC drive.) No idea, sorry. Do you have umass, atapicam, and ata-usb all involved here? If so, you've

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Philipp Ost
Robert Gray wrote: I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made (note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was read. If I first played a little of the DVD with mplayer,

Re: acd and iostat [was Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs]

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-May-04 16:51:05 +1000, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. The only other reason I can see for removing acdX from these stats would be to save on some admittedly precious screen real estate. Having cd0, acd0 and pass0 as three separate entries does strike me as excessive. I think

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD. I can not even read a single sector

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Craig Boston
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:03:12AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I don't know the code, but it looks like this Plextor and cd(4) don't get along when DVD copy protection is involved. I also read in the OpenBSD 4.1 release notes, that they made changes to their cd(4) to work better with region

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Craig Boston
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:37:30AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: Unfortunately I don't know a way other than booting proprietary operating systems to see what region a drive is set to and/or change it. Not to say there isn't one, just that I don't know what it is. As I read further down the

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On 5/4/07, Craig Boston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a new drive, correct? It's possible that the firmware has never been told what region it's in, and is refusing to read any protected discs from outside its region (which would be all of them). I already tried Windows and Linux, to check

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 20:16:46 Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the external drive, but it's working just fine with the internal one. It's really driving me nuts. Maybe you have to change the drive region code (RPC

FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Hi all, I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD. I can not even read a single sector from such a DVD with the external drive, but it's

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD. I can not even read a single sector from such

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Sean C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made (note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was read. If I

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Scott Long
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Sean C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made (note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Scott Long
Sean C. Farley wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2007, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time getting my external (USB, Firewire) Plextor PX-755UF to read any retail DVDs at all. I can read any kind of CDs and also DVD-Rs. But mastered DVDs are invisible to FreeBSD. I can not even read a

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Gray
I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made (note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was read. If I first played a little of the DVD with mplayer, then dd would work

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I've had similar experiences with DaVinci Code and Casino Royal. Casino Royale is using something new. It managed to trip up Mac The Ripper, which so far has had a 100% success rate for me. In general the Sony infections imbed bad sectors on the disks in locations that a DVD player parsing