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Re: Mac mini, I/O Error on DVD read



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.

johannes

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