[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD players.

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

> > > 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.

No, it's not a hardware problem.  It's called "RPC2", region protection
code 2 was done in firmware on all dvd-roms manufactured after January.
Players have to be able to do this rpc2 handshake.  Suse and other software
dvd's will not use rpc, so there should be no problem.

I had a mess of "dvd hacking" links - but the sites are all gone now : (.
But search on "DVD FAQ" and you'll find something.