FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

[Philipp Ost]

Robert Gray wrote:
>>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.

Have you guys already tried sysutils/dvdbackup?


Philipp
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