On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:52:12PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: >Replacing my venerable CD-ROM with a DVD drive has moved onto the to-do >list. A quick bit of googling suggests that linux compatibility isn't an >issue, and they'll mostly be SATA. Internal drives seem less advertised, >but not excessively scarce.
>Is it the case that some makes (e.g. LG) read scratched discs better >than others (e.g. ASUS)? The 3:1 price difference between HP and ASUS >doesn't surprise much, since that's usually the cost of the name plate. From the beginning (many years ago) I have had problems with some DVD drives not reading video DVD's correctly so these days I usually have 2 DVD drives, and LG and either a HP or Pioneer DVD, if the disk wont work on one it will (usually) work on the other. Note: I do not have a TV or infact watch TV at all, I do though uses DVD's for some entertainment, because of this it was worth my while to go to some effort to watch DVD's. Robin Humble said... >region free firmware is the main stumbling block for me. I lived >overseas for quite a while, so I need to play region 1 as well as >region 4 discs. some uk discs too. errrrrrrrrr, lets put it this way......... libdvdcss allows one to watch DVD's from different regions, its a cryptographic cracking system so some distro's (Debian any way) do not package it. For a long time I have sucessfully viewed zone 1, 3 and 4 DVD's using this library. The library is transparent in use if its present a player (eg xine) will use it, if its not present it will of course not use it. Lindsay _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
