You're going to have to switch your PC's DVD drive to region 2. Afterwards you can switch it back to region 1. Wikipedia says you can change the drive's region 5 times. I have never switched a drive's region; I understand regionset is the program to use.
Once the drive is in region 2, you should be able to play the DVD on your computer using mplayer or VLC. Or rip it to the hard drive using dvdread as Ben suggested. You probably don't need to recompress the video -- any computer made in the last five years should be fast enough to decode a DVD in software. You should be able to play PAL on your monitor without issues. If you decide your time is valuable or can't figure it out, you could also check The Pirate Bay to see if a the movie is available via Bittorrent. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Horst <knoblauch137-0...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I got a European movie on DVD I am unable to play or even copy. The DVD is > new, and no wear visible. > > The only app I got to play some broken, pixelated scenes is SMPlayer. > I can't even copy some of the files from the command line (see below). > Trying to copy those files from an XP box is rejected with some 'encryption' > msg (I forgot exact wording) > > Some key parameters : > Region Code 2, PAL, 5.8 GiB, 2 Layers > For full K3b media info see below. > > So I guess, I need apps that remove the region code (either for copying, or > in DVD firmware?), then lossy compress the 5.8 GB into something that fits > on a regular DVD, but not sure about the 2 Layers issue? > PAL should be a non-issue on PC/3y old hardware, right? > > When I search the web, solutions seem plentiful, but murky. Murky in that > it's not really clear or clean what they want me to install on my box > (kubuntu 9.10). > Anything from official Ubuntu repository? > > Any ideas, other than buying a region code 0 player? ............Horst > > =============== cmd line (some numbers set to 111 )=============== > VIDEO_TS$ ll VTS_01_0* > -r--r--r-- 1 4294967111 4294967111 77821 2010-07-02 01:33 VTS_01_0.IFO > -r--r--r-- 1 4294967111 4294967111 77821 2010-07-02 01:33 VTS_01_0.BUP > -r--r--r-- 1 4294967111 4294967111 140185111 2010-07-02 01:33 VTS_01_0.VOB > > VIDEO_TS$ cp VTS_01_0* ~/Desktop/DVD_tmp/ > cp: reading `VTS_01_0.VOB': Input/output error > > VIDEO_TS$ file VTS_01_0.VOB > VTS_01_0.VOB: ERROR: cannot read `VTS_01_0.VOB' (Input/output error) > VIDEO_TS$ > > ============ K3b (some info x'ed out) ========== > Type: DVD-ROM > Media ID: unknown > Capacity: 676:43:xx min (5.8 GiB) > Used Capacity: 676:43:xx min (5.8 GiB) > Rewritable: no > Appendable: no > Empty: no > Layers: 2 > Sessions: 1 > ISO9660 Filesystem Info > > System Id: - > Volume Id: XXXXXXXXXXXX > Volume Set Id: UNDEFINED > Publisher Id: - > Preparer Id: - > Application Id: - > Volume Size: 5.8 GiB (2,048 B * 3,045,24x blocks = 6,236,665,xxx B) > Tracks > > Type Attributes First-Last Sector Length > 1 (Data) no copy/uninterrupted 0 - 3045246 3045247 (676:43:xx) > ================================================ > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > -- Bob Miller K<bob> k...@jogger-egg.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
