read cd's but not dvd's?

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:07:47 -0800, "Josh Carroll"
<josh.carroll at psualum.com> wrote:

> > That would probably be because DVDs use the UDF format.  ISO9660 is
> > only for CDs.
> 
> Actually, you can mount some DVDs with mount_iso9660, but obviously it
> won't work properly for large files.
> 
> Note that I don't think you can just mount a commercial DVD with
> mount_udf and start copying .VOB files off if it. You'll need to use
> something like libdvdread, etc. I had the same problems with my DVD
> drive, and thought it was my hardware or a kernel bug, but it's simply
> not possible to read files off an encrypted DVD after mounting with
> mount_udf.

k3b come in handy for this.  I've used it to copy DVD images that were
unreadable via dd.

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Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"