[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD players.

[Steve Baker]

Chris Cox wrote:

> > However, if I 'mount' the DVD drive with a movie disk in it, I see a bunch
> > of files - some small, some **HUGE** (1Gb). I was interested in getting a
> > rough idea of the new drive's data rate - so I naively decided to time:
> >
> >     cat /dvd/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob >/dev/null
> 
> Not sure what the status of the UDF driver is in 2.2.19.... realize that
> many of the DVD players can access the device raw.... I'm not sure
> that any do a true mount (but I could be wrong).

Certainly the 'ogle' player that I installed uses raw access - and it works
just fine. I was just a little suprised to see disk errors.  Since I intend
to get the next version of SuSE on DVD-ROM, I'm obviously concerned if there
is some kind of hardware problem here.

> I get similar errors trying to do this.

Hmmm - OK - then it's probably nothing to worry about.

I'll borrow a data-only DVD-ROM from someone and see if I get errors with that.
 
>  It's not that interesting to me though.

Well, indeed - it's hardly the end of the world.  It's nice that 'ogle' plays
DVD's OK and providing I can 'mount' the drive and read data-DVD's OK, I'm
happy.

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