On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:08:27PM +0200, Alberto Hernando wrote:
> 
> I have a question about how freevo manages dvd's. If I use a real dvd, no 
> problem, freevo plays it (rather, xine plays it). But now I'm trying to copy 
> dvd's to the hard-disc.
>
How do you copy the DVD? If you copy the files it won't work. You should
use an application like dvdbackup for this purpose.
Use dvdbackup -M and it should work. Aditionally if you have libdvdcss
the backup will be unprotected during the copy.

> [...] The same dvd is played from the disk but not from the hard disk. Does 
> it has something to do with crypted dvds? At first, I couldn't copy them, but 
> after having mplayer play it, I can make the copy. So I really don't know 
> what's going on.
> 
I think this is due to new discs having a protection scheme based in
unreadable sectors. If you try to copy the file it won't work as from the
filesystem point of view the disc has bad and unreadable sectors.
But the position of the good data of the dvd is in some indexes of the
disc and mplayer reads those and takes the good route. Then when you try
to copy the file maybe there is a copy of the file in memory with the
unreadable sectors bypassed or filled with good data.
But anyway copying the DVD files directly is bad. Use dvdbackup.

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