Re: Mac mini, I/O Error on DVD read
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:59PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:13 +0100, Wolfram Quester wrote:
>
> > Guido and me once had this problem on our PowerBooks too. After playing a
> > DVD under MacOSX they went away and we had the impression that MacOSX
> > sets the country code on the DVD the first time a DVD is played. Once
> > the drive is initialized it works also under Linux.
>
> Same here.
>
> > But this not hard knowledge, just an observation. I don't really
> > remember if we had this problems only when we tried to watch a video or
> > if normal data DVDs lead to problems too.
>
> Data DVDs worked, but video DVDs didn't work even with libdvdcss, no
> tool could even read from video DVDs. Once OSX set the region code
> (afaict it didn't matter what to) it all worked.
Ok, thanks for the info.
I guess I'll have to reinstall OS X, then...
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Christophe Delage
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