On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:24:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I don't think this is OS-specific, but this morning I *wasted* a few > hours trying to watch a DVD of "Dr. Strangelove." I tried to dd the > iso into /usr/tmp, but that errored out too.
Try "mplayer dvd://1 -v -dumpstream -dumpfile title.mpg" from the command line, and replace the "1" by the number of the longest track. This should give you a better indication of the error. > No, I have 0.0 intent > of wasting the diskspace on movies, but just wonder if why /dev/dvd > and /media fail. Ubuntu. You are sure that your DVD player isn't broken? Some CDs and DVDs are made in such a way that they do not comlpy with the relevant standard, but play in most hardware-based players. Sometimes you can figure this out by looking at the box. E.g. on the DVD of the latest Star Trek movie the index was subtly broken on purpose. It is usually labeled as copy protection. But in my experience, FreeBSD and Linux usually don't have problems with those. Try another player application like vlc. 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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