On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:32:22AM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > I recently made the upgrade to 7.0, and my girlfriend had some video cd's > she wanted help with(end result is putting two pal vcd's on one ntsc dvd). > I had a couple she'd given me before that were actually dvd's so I first > put the new ones in my dvd drive and tried using mplayer on them, but it > locks up with the read big timeout thing that I'm sure almost anyone who's > messed with dvd's has seen.
I haven't. DVD's work fine here with mplayer on amd64. > Under 6.3, that error would do the three > tries, and then another three, and quit. I didn't not test under 6.3 using > an actual vcd so I'm not sure if that's specific to the issue or not. But > under 7.0, it'd just keep retrying forever. Since it was locked in device, > I couldn't kill it, I couldn't eject the disc, and had to forcibly reboot > the system. Now, the operating system still worked, but the drive was > locked, and the kernel could not shut down. I doubt this is expected or > tolerated behavior but given that it involves video cd's in a dvd drive > trying to be accessed as a dvd, I'm not sure it's been seen very often at > all. Was behavior changed from 6 to 7, or was this just an untested case? > Does anyone know how best to deal with processes locked in "device"? When trying to play a vcd in mplayer I just get a CDRIOCSETBLOCKSIZE error. There are tools in ports to rip a VCD. See multimedia/vcdimager. For wayward devices to can try using cdcontrol(1) or atacontrol(8). Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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