cable to copy VCR to DVD

2010-12-12 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I'm including a link. The product comes with a Windows only program (ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO). Does anyone know if or how it could be used in Linux? The connections are from the RCA output of the VCR (or any other source) to USB on the computer. http://www.ynet-

Re: cable to copy VCR to DVD

2010-12-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Dec 12, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I'm including a link. The product comes with a Windows only program (ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO). Does anyone know if or how it could be used in Linux? The connections are from the RCA output of the VCR (or any other source) to USB on the

Re: cable to copy VCR to DVD

2010-12-12 Thread Shlomo Solomon
indirectly suggested a solution to my VCR to DVD question. I suppose I could connect the VCR to the TV card. Any suggestions on what to use to record the output? I've never had much luck recording with xawtv and I usually use tvtime which has no recording function (for viewing only). On Sunday, December

Re: cable to copy VCR to DVD

2010-12-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
it is on. :-( In any case, maybe you have indirectly suggested a solution to my VCR to DVD question. I suppose I could connect the VCR to the TV card. Any suggestions on what to use to record the output? I've never had much luck recording with xawtv and I usually use tvtime which has no recording function

ripping DVD+RW

2009-12-17 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I just upgraded from Mandriva 2009.1 to 2010.0 and I can no longer rip a DVD+RW disk recorded in a DVD recorder. I've tried dvdrip and k3b (both worked in 2009.1). Both programs see the recordings but report them as zero length (but with several chapters???). Strangely, if I open the DVD+RW

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Vasiliev
MD5 on the device file won't work. But this works: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm On 11/02/2009 11:41, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Hi, I want to make an MD5 checksum of a DVD ROM to verify that it was burned properly. Is there a way to do this without making an ISO file

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. So I was able to tell that the copies I burned were identical. but not that they matched the original. For those that don't know, some CD and DVD drives have trouble writting a few specific bit patterns. Look up weak sectors for more information. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g

how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I want to make an MD5 checksum of a DVD ROM to verify that it was burned properly. Is there a way to do this without making an ISO file from it? While I obivously have to read it, I don't want to do anything with the data other than calculate the checksum. Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-11 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Geoff, On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I want to make an MD5 checksum of a DVD ROM to verify that it was burned properly. Is there a way to do this without making an ISO file from it? While I obivously have to read it, I don't want to do anything

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Baruch Siach wrote: Hi Geoff, On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I want to make an MD5 checksum of a DVD ROM to verify that it was burned properly. Is there a way to do this without making an ISO file from it? While I obivously have to read it, I

Re: how to MD5 sum a DVD without copying it.

2009-02-11 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, You could make an ISO image to stdout and pipe it to md5sum. This still makes the image of course but it won't take up disc space. I've not actually tried this but it should be possible. Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list

Looking for a recommended card and software to record all VCR cassettes into eventually a DVD.

2008-10-09 Thread David Harel
Hi all and Happy Yom Kipur (From Morfix.co.il: may you be signed and sealed in the book of life), Having all that time now, I am trying to figure out how to make my Gentoo machine (laptop) to be able to record my cassettes collection from the old VCR which has an analog antenna output only. I

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-17 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Lior Kaplan wrote: $ file myfs.iso myfs.iso: , 44.1 kHz, Stereo any ideas ? Yesterday I got that very same reply for the first 10KB of an ext-2 image that someone changed its magic number. Viewed from khexedit, the first block and something were just nulls. I have no idea why file

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-17 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:44:29AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Lior Kaplan wrote: $ file myfs.iso myfs.iso: , 44.1 kHz, Stereo any ideas ? Yesterday I got that very same reply for the first 10KB of an ext-2 image that someone changed its magic number. Viewed from khexedit, the

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-16 Thread Lior Kaplan
Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/6/15 shimi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on how to recognize how to mount the DVD? (and detecting the FS type). This is going to be a little fuzzy way, but I think it would work for you

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-16 Thread shimi
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/6/15 shimi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on how to recognize how to mount the DVD? (and detecting the FS type

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-16 Thread shimi
to recognize how to mount the DVD? (and detecting the FS type). This is going to be a little fuzzy way, but I think it would work for you (finding out which FS, can't guarantee the ability to mount it...) : dd if=/dev/hdc of=myfs.iso bs=100 Well, if dd can read anything from

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-16 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Lior Kaplan, from the post of Mon, 16 Jun: dd if=/dev/hdc of=myfs.iso bs=10k count=1 $ file myfs.iso myfs.iso: , 44.1 kHz, Stereo any ideas ? well, highly irregular, but cdrecord lets you do stupid things if you screw up the commandline, maybe someone wrote a WAV file directly

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-16 Thread Valery Reznic
--- On Tue, 6/17/08, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has To: IGLU Mailing list linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 1:23 AM Quoting Lior Kaplan, from the post of Mon, 16 Jun: dd

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-15 Thread sara fink
I have this problem as well (and my dvdrom points to sr0). From my experience, when you get this bread failed, you won't be able to mount it. Only reboot can help. Also, I had recently problems with the dvd rom and had to switch instead of hdc to sdXXX. The new way to define cdroms/dvdrom is via

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/6/15 shimi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on how to recognize how to mount the DVD? (and detecting the FS type). This is going to be a little fuzzy way, but I think it would work for you (finding out which FS

Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi, I've successfully burnt a data DVD with k3b with file system unix/linux + windows. I tried to mount the DVD in linux (debian unstable) and got this: # mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom -t autofs mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or helper

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49:54PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, I've successfully burnt a data DVD with k3b with file system unix/linux + windows. I tried to mount the DVD in linux (debian unstable) and got this: UDF? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Noam Meltzer
burnt a data DVD with k3b with file system unix/linux + windows. I tried to mount the DVD in linux (debian unstable) and got this: # mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom -t autofs mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or helper program, or other

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Lior, Not sure if I'm correct, but as far as I recall, ISO 9660 is the standard for CDROM, not DVD-ROM. A DVD is a UDF format, so you can use: mount -t udf /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom Hetz On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've successfully burnt a data

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49:54PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote: Hi, I've successfully burnt a data DVD with k3b with file system unix/linux + windows. I tried to mount the DVD in linux (debian unstable) and got this: # mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom -t autofs mount: wrong fs type, bad

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:21:02PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi Lior, Not sure if I'm correct, but as far as I recall, ISO 9660 is the standard for CDROM, not DVD-ROM. IIRC that's true, but in practice almost all DVDs I saw so far were iso9660, with video DVDs being udf a notable exception

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread Lior Kaplan
Noam Meltzer wrote: Hi, Usually, there is no need to specify -t fs Can you also paste the output of dmesg |tail after a successful failure ;-) Tried UDF and isofs (after loading the module): # dmesg | tail attempt to access beyond end of device hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 isofs_fill_super:

Re: Finding which type of FS a DVD has

2008-06-14 Thread shimi
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on how to recognize how to mount the DVD? (and detecting the FS type). This is going to be a little fuzzy way, but I think it would work for you (finding out which FS, can't guarantee the ability to mount

Using a DVD which was burned using LG RC-288 DVD player/writer

2008-06-04 Thread David Harel
Greetings, A friend of mine burned a DVD using LG RC-288 VCR/DVD player/recorder. He is able to view the video on his player but we can not use it anywhere else. One thing I thought was that the DVD was not fixated. Every attempt to use the DVD disk came with either errors or nothing

Re: Using a DVD which was burned using LG RC-288 DVD player/writer

2008-06-04 Thread ik
I had such problems with few DVD drives (some of them where burners and some only ROM). The problem I found out in two of them was that the version of the firmware had bugs that required upgrading to a newer version. Another problem I found on few other drives where that they came to the end

Re: Using a DVD which was burned using LG RC-288 DVD player/writer

2008-06-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:41 AM, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw even burning DVD's too fast can have problems. x8 does not always works right on some DVD burners (and I saw DVD that offers even faster burning). I heard many years ago about a research which found that the speed of burning has

Re: exporting mounted DVD iso?

2007-11-25 Thread Kfir Lavi
If it is not a problem, just install web server and install your machines from http repository. Your web server will export the dvd content via http. This is the easiest solution I can think of. Regards, Kfir On Nov 23, 2007 1:47 PM, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, So I got

Re: exporting mounted DVD iso?

2007-11-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/11/2007, Kfir Lavi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is not a problem, just install web server and install your machines from http repository. Your web server will export the dvd content via http. This is the easiest solution I can think of. Thanks. I've already installed apache

Re: exporting mounted DVD iso?

2007-11-25 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Nov 25, 2007 12:12 PM, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/11/2007, Kfir Lavi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is not a problem, just install web server and install your machines from http repository. Your web server will export the dvd content via http. This is the easiest

Re: exporting mounted DVD iso?

2007-11-25 Thread Micha Silver
repository. Your web server will export the dvd content via http. This is the easiest solution I can think of. Thanks. I've already installed apache on that other server and will probably try it tomorrow when I get back in the office. Am I right to assume that I should loop

Re: exporting mounted DVD iso?

2007-11-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/11/2007, Micha Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall if this was already mentioned: for http (and ftp) installs, you indeed have to point to a directory with the rpm files. However installing over nfs you point to an exported directory with the original iso file. No need for

exporting mounted DVD iso?

2007-11-23 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, So I got around to install CentOS 5 on one of our servers and even managed to install Windows Vista as a guest on by exporting a directory with the DVD ISO file over NFS. But now I need to install a couple of CentOS 5 guests and get into trouble exporting it over NFS. Now - first thing

How to play DVD audio?

2007-07-01 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Does anyone know how to play a DVD-Audio on Linux? The disk is a DVD type disk with only files in AUDIO_TS and no VIDEO_TS files. Therefore all of the usual suspects won't play it. I done a web search and all I come up with is articles on how to master them on Linux (I already have the disk

Re: How to play DVD audio?

2007-07-01 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Have you tried Mplayer? Googling turned up inclusion of experimental support for 48kHz LPCM in the announcement for Mplayer 1.0pre6. Geoff. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the

Re: How to play DVD audio?

2007-07-01 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, it's not a DVD. Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ = To unsubscribe

Re: How to play DVD audio?

2007-07-01 Thread Amos Shapira
to specify what to play. Since it does not have video files, it's not a DVD. VLC is my current favourite to try anything to do with media, I find it more robust than mplayer (mplayer being my previous favourite). Other than that, I've just ripped children's songs from a DVD into a CD (to play

Re: How to play DVD audio?

2007-07-01 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
, including files from a file server over my network and can be used by my wife and kids. It does not play audio CD's easily. I don't use it to watch TV or as a PVR. However none of them play this DVD-Audio. It seems that many DVD players don't play them anyway. Neither to do most Windows media players

Re: How to play DVD audio?

2007-07-01 Thread Amos Shapira
On 02/07/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than that, I've just ripped children's songs from a DVD into a CD (to play at a birthday party) simply using ffmpeg on the .VOB files. I can't access my home machine right now to try to dig the exact incantation I used from

CentOs 5 DVD

2007-06-26 Thread Yonah Russ
Hi, Is there anywhere in Israel to download the CentOs 5 DVD iso directly (not via torrent)? Thanks, Yonah

Re: CentOs 5 DVD

2007-06-26 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:41:28 Yonah Russ wrote: Is there anywhere in Israel to download the CentOs 5 DVD iso directly (not via torrent)? Why do you need Israeli mirror ? On 29/5/07 I downloaded the CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso from ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de . It took 3:51 hours (303 KB

Re: CentOs 5 DVD

2007-06-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 06:41:32PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: On 29/5/07 I downloaded the CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso from ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de . It took 3:51 hours (303 KB/s). I know for sure that there are other mirrors that have similar speed. I tried it and got a peak under

Re: CentOs 5 DVD

2007-06-26 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:43:17 Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 06:41:32PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: On 29/5/07 I downloaded the CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso from ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de . It took 3:51 hours (303 KB/s). I know for sure that there are other

How to find DVD burner firmware version.

2007-06-15 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
I have an old DVD burner in a Linux based file server. I would like to update it to the latest version. While I expect that I will have to put it into a Windows computer to actually run the update, I would like to get started before I do it, and download the correct version. Is there a way

Re: How to find DVD burner firmware version.

2007-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/06/07, Matan Ziv-Av [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I have an old DVD burner in a Linux based file server. I would like to update it to the latest version. While I expect that I will have to put it into a Windows computer to actually run

Re: How to find DVD burner firmware version.

2007-06-15 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I have an old DVD burner in a Linux based file server. I would like to update it to the latest version. While I expect that I will have to put it into a Windows computer to actually run the update, I would like to get started before I do

Re: Ubuntu 6.10 and DVD

2006-12-23 Thread ik
And even more information that someone might be able to help. On Mandriva 2007 (kernel 2.6.17) the problem is the same on the installation DVD itself. I compiled on my own 2.6.19.1 and the problem still exists, while on older kernels such as 2.6.15 the dvd does work. Ido On 12/16/06, ik

Re: Ubuntu 6.10 and DVD

2006-12-16 Thread ik
Additional Information: I found a burned dvd that I can read, so it's very selective about what it is willing to read. And the programs that I'm trying to use in order to burn are: k3b, nautilus-cd-burner, Gnome-Baker, and the low level dvdrecord. Ido On 12/15/06, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Ubuntu 6.10 and DVD

2006-12-15 Thread ik
Hi List, I upgraded (using apt-get dist-upgrade) from Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu 6.10. Since then, my DVD acts really strange. My DVD is nec ND-3550A with firmware version 1.05 I'm using a motherboard of asus with nforce 4 and kernel from ubuntu: 2.6.17-10 under amd64 . I can't read almost any

[HAIFUX LECTURE] DVD Authoring with Linux

2006-11-04 Thread Eli Billauer
This Monday (6.11.06), at 18:30, Haifa Linux Club will gather to hear Eli Billauer (myself) talk about DVD Authoring with Linux This lecture is a walkthrough of the process of creating a video DVD for a standalone consumer DVD player. Starting from recoding video files, through

Re: Video DVD copy programs?

2006-10-28 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 08:06 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a program that will read a video DVD and make a copy of it. I'm not looking for a program that will convert the movie to an avi of mpg file, such as mencoder or VLC. I am looking for a program

Video DVD copy programs?

2006-10-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I'm looking for a program that will read a video DVD and make a copy of it. I'm not looking for a program that will convert the movie to an avi of mpg file, such as mencoder or VLC. I am looking for a program that will create an unencrypted ISO file, similar to DVD decrypter for Windows

Re: Video DVD copy programs?

2006-10-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/10/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tired k9copy and it did not work. VAMPS could not read the video trackand if I did a copy and reformat, DVDauthor failed.Could it be a firmware limitation/mismatch to that particular media's zone? I had similar problems until I set the

Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface

2006-09-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/09/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure how relevant this is for DVD's but back around 2000~ I heard about a research that showed that slow-burned CD's had more chance to survive longer than CD's which were burned faster. I usually use x2 when burning DVD's - I

Re: Practical importance of Firewire? (was: Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface)

2006-09-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Mon, 04 Sep: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 06:24:19AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: After getting a round of comments (both in private E-mail and in Linux-IL): I noticed that some DVD burners have both Firewire and USB2.0 interfaces. Others have only

DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
oops - please ignore my previous message - here's what I intended to send I have an internal LG DVD burner. For no apparent reason (at least none that I can find), the burning speed slows down after a few days. This is an always-on machine, but if I do re-boot (for example, after a hardware

Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface

2006-09-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=/tmp/tmp-gib.iso -speed=4 :-( unable to TEST UNIT READY: Input/output error WARNING: /dev/hdc already carries isofs! About to execute 'builtin_dd if=/tmp/tmp-gib.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc: restarting DVD+RW format

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
here's some more info After writing about my problem, I tried the same command, but used a 2.4X DVD+RW and the actual speed was 2.2 - close enough to expected performance. So the problem occurs with a 4X disk but not with a 2.4X disk. I would think that that indicates that the 4X disks

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 06:24:02PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I have an internal LG DVD burner. For no apparent reason (at least none that I can find), the burning speed slows down after a few days. This is an always-on machine, but if I do re-boot (for example, after a hardware change

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:55, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 06:24:02PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I have an internal LG DVD burner. For no apparent reason (at least none that I can find), the burning speed slows down after a few days. This is an always-on machine

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:34:09PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Also try sudo nice --19 grow. That made things MUCH worse. The speed dropped to 0.1. Nice -19 or nice --19? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:34:09PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Also try sudo nice --19 grow. That made things MUCH worse. The speed dropped to 0.1. Nice -19 or nice --19? As strange as this may seem - both. I tried --19 as

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:55:04PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: And, of course, I still have no idea what's causing the original problem of the slow burn speed. Did you read or write a video DVD? Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:12, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:55:04PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: And, of course, I still have no idea what's causing the original problem of the slow burn speed. Did you read or write a video DVD? I don't think so, but I can't say

Re: DVD burning speed problem

2006-09-04 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 11:38:30PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: BTW - why did you ask? what's the connection? While a DVD burner is supposed to record data at its rated speed, for some reason, probably a legal agreement, they have much lower record speed for video disks. I think it was 2.3

Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface

2006-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
My specs: - USB interface - Ability to burn dual layer DVD (8.5GB per medium) - Not too slow - Intended usage - as backup device for my files After some mental agony I zeroed on LG GSA 2164D (other alternatives being LG GSA 5163D, LG GSA 5169D, LG GSA 2166D) as the DVD burner with USB interface

Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface

2006-09-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:08:15PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: My specs: - USB interface - Ability to burn dual layer DVD (8.5GB per medium) - Not too slow - Intended usage - as backup device for my files Don't waste your time or money. Buy a generic CD/DVD case (I bought one from conceptronic

Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface

2006-09-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/09/06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't waste your time or money. Buy a generic CD/DVD case (I bought onefrom conceptronic for less than 300 NIS) and stuck a DVD burner I wantedin it.You mean the case has a USB external interface and internally it will accept any old IDE

Practical importance of Firewire? (was: Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface)

2006-09-03 Thread Omer Zak
After getting a round of comments (both in private E-mail and in Linux-IL): I noticed that some DVD burners have both Firewire and USB2.0 interfaces. Others have only USB2.0 interface. The question is - how important is Firewire in practice? Do you, Firewire users, use it a lot? Any problems

Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface

2006-09-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:50:20AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: You mean the case has a USB external interface and internally it will accept any old IDE device? Exactly. Selecting too high a burn speed will not only slow you down, I'm not sure how relevant this is for DVD's but back

Re: Practical importance of Firewire? (was: Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface)

2006-09-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/09/06, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After getting a round of comments (both in private E-mail and inLinux-IL):I noticed that some DVD burners have both Firewire and USB2.0interfaces.Others have only USB2.0 interface.The question is - how important is Firewire in practice? Maybe take

Re: Practical importance of Firewire? (was: Re: Selecting a DVD burner with USB interface)

2006-09-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 06:24:19AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: After getting a round of comments (both in private E-mail and in Linux-IL): I noticed that some DVD burners have both Firewire and USB2.0 interfaces. Others have only USB2.0 interface. The question is - how important is Firewire

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-07 Thread Oded Arbel
the sales drone to get the least invasive DRM on my spanking new DVD drive? Is there a list of friendly manufacturers / models? None that I could find. I haven't used PCs to place real Video DVDs for a while now, as for that I have a DVD player - of which you'd be hard pressed to find a non

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Levy, Chen wrote: Hi, List. Up to this very day, I avoided buying a DVD drive, just because I was not willing to pay for hardware with any DRM (e.g. CSS, RPC Region code - RPC1/RPC2, RCE, APS, UOPS), however I need a DVD drive now. I know there are software measures to defeat most stupid

[OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Levy, Chen
Hi, List. Up to this very day, I avoided buying a DVD drive, just because I was not willing to pay for hardware with any DRM (e.g. CSS, RPC Region code - RPC1/RPC2, RCE, APS, UOPS), however I need a DVD drive now. I know there are software measures to defeat most stupid DRM schemes, but I

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Why you're going through all of this? I have here 6 DVD drives here at home. Guess how many times I had to fiddle with region locking/DRM stuff? none! no firmware patching, no locking, nothing. On my windows machine, I simple use RegionFreeDVD, a small program which bypass all the region

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Levy, Chen
ביום חמישי 06 יולי 2006, 11:40, נכתב על ידי Hetz Ben Hamo: Why you're going through all of this? Because I read this: http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id239619 1.2. Does VLC support DVDs from all regions? Well this mostly depends on your DVD drive. Testing it is usually

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Diego Iastrubni
OpenSUSE 10.0, I am using unable to see a PinkFloyd disk. This is supposed to be a concert in Pompeii, but I am unsure :) ביום חמישי, 6 ביולי 2006, 12:14, נכתב על ידי Levy, Chen: No horror stories then? Anybody? -- diego, kde-il translation team Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:27:08PM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: OpenSUSE 10.0, I am using unable to see a PinkFloyd disk. This is supposed to be a concert in Pompeii, but I am unsure :) Is it a DVD or a SACD (super Audio CD?). AFIK almost nothing supports SACDs, although some of them also

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Diego Iastrubni
+0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote: OpenSUSE 10.0, I am using unable to see a PinkFloyd disk. This is supposed to be a concert in Pompeii, but I am unsure :) Is it a DVD or a SACD (super Audio CD?). AFIK almost nothing supports SACDs, although some of them also have a DVD version on the disk. Do you

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-07-06 11:40, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I have here 6 DVD drives here at home. Guess how many times I had to fiddle with region locking/DRM stuff? none! no firmware patching, no locking, nothing. Well, lucky you; this is highly drive-specific. From what I gather, when the region doesn't

Re: [OT] Stupid DVD DRM

2006-07-06 Thread Oded Arbel
question is what can I tell the sales drone to get the least invasive DRM on my spanking new DVD drive? Is there a list of friendly manufacturers / models? None that I could find. I haven't used PCs to place real Video DVDs for a while now, as for that I have a DVD player - of which you'd be hard

Replacing a DVD player with a Linux system????

2006-06-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, In the last year we have had two DVD players fail. They fail by not reading disks at all or skipping during playing them. One player was an Apex, the other a Marantz. They both play regular DVDs, and DVD+-R disks and also .avi files. Sometimes they skip during playing, sometimes they won't

Re: Replacing a DVD player with a Linux system????

2006-06-18 Thread Baruch Even
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I would like to replace the player with a computer. I don't need much, but what I need is the ability to play a DVD including the menus and play files using MP1/2/4 compression as .avi or .mov files. VLC plays the DVDs fine, Mplayer gets the ones that VLC does

Re: Replacing a DVD player with a Linux system????

2006-06-18 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Sunday 18 June 2006 17:16, Baruch Even wrote: Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I would like to replace the player with a computer. I don't need much, but what I need is the ability to play a DVD including the menus and play files using MP1/2/4 compression as .avi or .mov files. Look

Re: Campaign to boycott HD DVD

2006-03-09 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Come on.. You want to boycott HD DVD? Why not boycott blueray (BD) also? Whether someone likes it or not, both formats are here to stay (and the consumer will loose from this situation until those 2 stupid companies will decide on a common format. VHS vs. BetaMax, here we go again... Both

Re: Campaign to boycott HD DVD

2006-03-09 Thread Oded Arbel
agreement - I fail to see what is so bad about it, except for the old rhetoric of DRM is bad because RMS says so, nothing I've read indicates there will be worse limitations then those for DVD. -- Oded ::.. Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front

Re: Campaign to boycott HD DVD

2006-03-09 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, On 2006-03-09 10:37, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Both formats WILL be cracked. It's only a matter of time and stupidity of those companies. Last time it was because none of the DVD forum companies had any support for Linux, until DVD Jon came with DeCSS and from there, the rest is history. Yes

Re: Campaign to boycott HD DVD

2006-03-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:37:27AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Come on.. You want to boycott HD DVD? Why not boycott blueray (BD) also? The site calls for that as well. Whether someone likes it or not, both formats are here to stay (and the consumer will loose from this situation until

Campaign to boycott HD DVD

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
of this site to Hebrew in order to educate the Israeli public about the dangers of HD DVD at its current form. Cheers, --Amos -- I was being prosecuted for my beliefs I believed people wouldn't notice I'd sold them camels with plaster teeth until I was well out of town. - Terry Pratchett

Playing a DVD with 4 audio channels

2006-02-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
. Both are supported by alsa and both play sounds when I use the soundcard detection applet from the KDE redhat menu. I don't care which one I use, but I would like to do either when I play a DVD: 1. Have the linux system decode the 4 channels and play the sound out of the front and rear channels

Re: Playing a DVD with 4 audio channels

2006-02-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
. Both are supported by alsa and both play sounds when I use the soundcard detection applet from the KDE redhat menu. I don't care which one I use, but I would like to do either when I play a DVD: 1. Have the linux system decode the 4 channels and play the sound out of the front and rear

upgrading dvd player to network aware unit

2005-11-20 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, It's almost time to update my DVD player. I am looking at the following types of units: 1. DVD player with MP4 support. This is the cheapest option, about 400 NIS. The main disadvantge is that every time I want to use it to watch something I need to burn it to a CD or DVD

errors reading CD image on DVD burner

2005-11-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, My setup: Debian Sarge on AMD Athlon (32bit). DVD burner: LG GSA-4163B CD Burner: LG GCE-8520B I use KDE and K3B to manage the burners. In order to verify that the copying is correct, I did it in multiple steps - 1. create an image on the disk. 2. mount image and cd, run diff -r 3. umount

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fedora Core 4 DVD version]

2005-06-23 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:22:30 +0300, Amir Binyamini wrote: I am also thinking about installing fedora core 4 from a DVD. I looked at fedora site and according to it there should be FC4-i386-DVD.iso somewhere. But I followed the download link and I saw there only disc1-disc4 iso images (no DVD

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