Re: DVD that other computers can't play

2010-02-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:11:27 -0500 Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 23:03:55 Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm installing vlc now. The problem appears to be not bad sectors, but a missing codec, though the error message Windows gave was quite cryptic and I had to

Re: DVD that other computers can't play

2010-02-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 07 February 2010 03:24:33 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: Eeek vlc has no dependency on kdegraphics here. I updated pkgsrc before trying to install it. The current version of vlc depended on an updated version of some library, which caused something in kde to have to be upgraded,

Re: DVD that other computers can't play

2010-02-07 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, February 7, 2010 8:28 am, Pierre Abbat wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 03:24:33 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: Eeek vlc has no dependency on kdegraphics here. I updated pkgsrc before trying to install it. The current version of vlc depended on an updated version of some library,

Re: DVD that other computers can't play

2010-02-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
I installed vlc and tried to play the disk. It came up with a menu saying English/Español; I picked one and tried to play one of the movies. It is now spewing an endless stream of the following error on the console: acd0: setting up DMA failed ata1: FAILURE - oversized DMA transfer attempt

Re: DVD that other computers can't play

2010-02-07 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:37:33 -0500 Pierre Abbat p...@phma.optus.nu wrote: I installed vlc and tried to play the disk. It came up with a menu saying English/Español; I picked one and tried to play one of the movies. It is now spewing an endless stream of the following error on the console:

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Re: DVD that other computers can't play

2010-02-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday 07 February 2010 15:32:49 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: Nasty - I thought that problem was fixed some time ago, I haven't seen it recently. A workaround is to use natacontrol to turn off DMA on the drive like this: natacontrol mode acd0 pio4 This works, but the drive makes a