FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

Robert Gray robert.gray at boulderlabs.com
Fri May 4 01:15:18 UTC 2007


>I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made
>(note:  no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))).  I wanted to
>just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was
>read.  If I first played a little of the DVD with mplayer, then dd would
>work afterwards.  It probably had something to do with mplayer
>whispering sweet nothings to the DVD player.
>Sean

I've had similar experiences with DaVinci Code and Casino Royal.
The error is:

Outputting to /big/MOVIE/CASINO/CASINO_ROYALE1-1.vob

  16MB of 6834MB written (0 %)

  acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 
  acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 


My work around so that I can watch the movie I rented is to skip
over the problem area (probably intensional by Hollywood)

    vobcopy -b 50m

Try adjusting the offset-size to your needs.
Robert


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