Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-16 Thread Dazed_75
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote: From: Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com I was able to dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 as you suggested so I did the whole thing with of=japanese.iso and tried mounting that with Archive Mounter with no success

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-16 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dazed_75 Note that the fsck you need may be called udffsck, and it might not be installed. I could not find it anywhere While searching Synaptic for it I did fins dares and dares-qt. It found 53 files and built a recover.iso but that does not seem to be helpful either. udffsck is

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-15 Thread Dazed_75
Thanks Matt, Sorry for the delay, yesterday was nuts. I was able to dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 as you suggested so I did the whole thing with of=japanese.iso and tried mounting that with Archive Mounter with no success and the with Archive Manager which gave me an error that it

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-15 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com I was able to dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5 as you suggested so I did the whole thing with of=japanese.iso and tried mounting that with Archive Mounter with no success It's definitely a data DVD of some type, then. Lastly I used hd [to write]

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-13 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dazed_75 this DVD has been tried in 5 players and on 2 computers. The only on that will play it is a 5 year old all region player belonging to the lady's friend somewhere across town. Matt, I do not know what the video encoding is. larry@hammerhead:~$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0

Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Dazed_75
Helping a Japanese friend trying to play a DVD her brother in Japan made. It plays in someone else’s all region DVD player We bought her one too and today we tried it with no success. I brought the DVD home with me thinking I might be able to learn something with my Kinux machine. When I put

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Brian Cluff
These appear to be the errors that are keeping you from mounting the DVD. It looks like that drive thinks the DVD is broken. Brian Cluff On 09/12/2012 05:37 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: [ 132.095180] UDF-fs: error (device sr0): udf_read_tagged: read failed, block=2394887184, location=0 [ 132.095185]

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dazed_75 Helping a Japanese friend trying to play a DVD her brother in Japan made. It plays in someone else’s all region DVD player So it's a regular DVD with MPEG-2 video on it? UDF-fs: error (sr0): __udf_read_inode: (ino 1989838) failed UDF-fs: Failed to read VAT inode from the

Re: Helping a Japanese Ftiend

2012-09-12 Thread Dazed_75
Thanks for the replies folks! Derek, this DVD has been tried in 5 players and on 2 computers. The only on that will play it is a 5 year old all region player belonging to the lady's friend somewhere across town. Matt, I do not know what the video encoding is. larry@hammerhead:~$ regionset