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Re: /dev/dvd problem and question



I remember hearing about some kind of region-lock on DVD-ROMs, maybe
this could be an example of that (although that wouldnt explain why
_some_ japanese DVDs are working...)
* Curt Howland (Howland@Priss.com) wrote:
> More information. I tried to mount /cdrom with a DVD in the drive, and 
> these showed up in dmesg:
> 
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
> Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
> cdrom: open failed.
> 
> And a silly thing seems to be happening: The American DVD's are 
> working, and some of the Japanese DVD's are working, but not all. 
> Data DVD's are failing entirely.
> 
> Can this be an effect of an advanced copy protection?
> 
> Curt-
> 
> On Thursday 01 July 2004 18:36, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> > Upgrading to 2.6.6 seems to have disconnected my DVD. xine says it
> > cannot decode DVD, and mplayer gives the following error:
> > -------------
> > Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
> > chars)
> > libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
> > libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
> > libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> > Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
> > Cannot open file/device.
> > Exiting...
> > --------------
> > # ls -al /dev/dvd
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root  11 Mar 17 13:38 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom0
> > # ls -al /dev/cdrom0
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root    8 Jul  1 10:51 /dev/cdrom0 -> /dev/hdc
> > # ls -al /dev/hdc
> > brwxrwxrwx    1 root disk  22,   0 Jun 13  2001 /dev/hdc
> > --------------
> > This is up to date Sid, and it used to work. Any suggestions or
> > some other information y'all need?
> 
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