On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:07:48PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> 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?
Thanks for the "mplayer dvd" trace idea. Turns out that I was
missing some of the libdvd stuff. Never installed them. The
way
you detail things on your help pages is outstanding. The *but*
is that I don't want to mess with anything on my FreeBSD server
that has any [remote] chance of bringing down the box. That
means having to learn two OS's, but so it goes.
>
> 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.
:-D Been meaning to buy/get-from-library the latest Star Trek
movie. I've heard it's pretty good. Butthen, after ***sweating***
endless headaches for a year I thought that Strangelove was the
thing. --I didn't know it was make it the UK; anyway, it's got
t be the funniest movie made. [[i'm laughing rt now]]
>
> Try another player application like vlc.
Good idea: while the disc is still in there.
thanks again!
gary
PS: beware fluoridated water!! LOLOL.
>
> Roland
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