Re: [REQUEST] Option for skipping unreadable blocks on Video DVD

2007-11-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I think that if they are using the normal block layer accesses on the > > DVD device, there may be some retries that occur which are likely > > undesirable in this case since they will just stall playback. If they > > are using SG_IO to feed raw requests into the drive (which I imagine > >

Re: [REQUEST] Option for skipping unreadable blocks on Video DVD

2007-11-18 Thread Tobias
Am Sunday 18 November 2007 schrieben Sie: > Tobias wrote: > > If you are accessing a scratched Video DVD and the device cannot read it, > > the process ends. > > What about a more tolerant way to handle unreadable blocks. > > Especially on Video DVDs single blocks are not that important than on > >

Re: [REQUEST] Option for skipping unreadable blocks on Video DVD

2007-11-17 Thread Robert Hancock
Tobias wrote: If you are accessing a scratched Video DVD and the device cannot read it, the process ends. What about a more tolerant way to handle unreadable blocks. Especially on Video DVDs single blocks are not that important than on data dvds. If the DVD player process ends from this, I'd

[REQUEST] Option for skipping unreadable blocks on Video DVD

2007-11-17 Thread Tobias
If you are accessing a scratched Video DVD and the device cannot read it, the process ends. What about a more tolerant way to handle unreadable blocks. Especially on Video DVDs single blocks are not that important than on data dvds. So is there a way that the kernel tells the device to skip th