[Bug 1674164] Re: DVDs with restricted permissions are unreadable for normal user (regression?)

2017-04-16 Thread mikbini
"differently correct" was meant to be a joke :) Unfortunately, I don't have the DVDs at hand: my mother in law dug out those old family video DVDs, brought them with her when he came to visit us. I'll try and recover them from her but it will take 2 or 3 months. Apologies for all the details

[Bug 1674164] Re: DVDs with restricted permissions are unreadable for normal user (regression?)

2017-04-12 Thread Phillip Susi
"differently correct" is no less a lie than "alternative facts". Your recorder is broken, period. Complain to the manufacturer to fix their firmware or see if they already have an update. Printed DVDs use the correct permissions. UDF also goes on rewritable media, optical or flash or

[Bug 1674164] Re: DVDs with restricted permissions are unreadable for normal user (regression?)

2017-04-12 Thread mikbini
In my view this is not invalid: "differently correct" recorders and also printed DVDs are common in the wild and they work on Windows, osX and "dumb" readers. And as the average user is not able to figure out a workaround, he will assume that ubuntu is broken and switch to something else. The

[Bug 1674164] Re: DVDs with restricted permissions are unreadable for normal user (regression?)

2017-03-21 Thread Phillip Susi
This is correct; if the disc specifies permissions, they are used. You appear to have a brain dead recorder that specifies the wrong permissions. As you noted, you will need to override the permissions to work around this, but it is not intended that permissions never be used by default. **