Thanks, Ben -- and Mike and Kaplan (see below) libdvdread4 was already installed. dvdrip looks like a nice bundle (though it took a fair amount of time to get most dependencies taken care of. (for some non-essential dependencies I am still looking for libs, and the app does a nice job pointing that out)
However, it too failed early on: "Mon Oct 25 20:28:51 2010 Job 'Read TOC (lsdvd|tcprobe)' exited with error: Job 'Read TOC (lsdvd)' failed with error message: Error reading table of contents. Please check your DVD device settings in the Preferences and don't forget to put a DVD in the drive." I then started a test with another PAL DVD from the same country, but less demanding in terms of 5.8 GB 'oversize', 2 Layers, and encryption: It passed the first hurdle in no time, but is still transcoding... (takes forever as I haven't set up cluster mode -- Ben, are you using cluster mode?) ----------------- Mike, your msg came in while still transcoding, so I can't test. But I had tried VMPlayer (a front-end for MPlayer, as I understand) -- it played some pixelated scenes (encryption) but ended up in a loop. Kaplan, I had played a number of PAL DVDs. PAL screen resolution is a bit different from NTSC, but I think, the more tricky part is in the analog world, RF/phase modulation, and whatever it takes to fold multidimensional information into the one band over the air. ----------------- Before creating any more noise, I'll take the DVD of interest to some region-free player at the UofO --stay tuned. - Horst From: Ben Barrett <stircrazy...@gmail.com> Sent: Mon, October 25, 2010 6:17:09 PM package: libdvdread4 ? re: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs another source mentioned adding plf to your sources... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=368415 Should be do-able, I think! a nifty perl-gui called dvd::rip might help too: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ cheers, Ben 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 > >
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