"High Noonn" DVD??

[Nikola Lečić]

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On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:08:27 +0100
Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
 
> Nikola Lečić <nikola.lecic at anthesphoria.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100
> > Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > OK, that's nice to know. All the DVDs that I have play fine with
> > > mplayer, but they're probably all region 2 disks. So I should be
> > > able to play region 1 disks with mplayer?
> > 
> > That's exactly what I am trying to do at this moment, with no
> > success. I'm in the region 2 and I set my DVD drive accordingly
> > (with a small C programme). Now I got some region 1 DVDs and
> > libdvdcss is not sufficient as such.
> 
> Which programs did you try?
> Do you get an error message?

I tried mplayer, vlc and ogle and experienced the same symptoms like
when this DVD drive was in virgin state (with no region-code set) and
when I tried to play normal region 2 DVD, which means:

  * vlc - no output at all
  * mplayer - sound ok, video scrambled in colourful squares, producing
    a lot of errors like this:

a52: CRC check failed!  0.046 ct: -0.029  21/ 18 11%  1% 23.4% 0 0 
a52: error at resampling
A:   1.5 V:   1.7 A-V: -0.197 ct: -0.036  23/ 20 11%  0% 22.8% 0 0 
demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
a52: CRC check failed!  0.045 ct:  0.100  34/30 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 a52: error at resampling

  * ogle - the flood of these kernel messages with syslogd eating a lot
    of CPU:

Nov 16 22:21:58 black kernel: acd0: setting up DMA failed
Nov 16 22:21:58 black kernel: ata2: FAILURE - non aligned DMA transfer attempted

After setting the region of my DVD drive to 2, I never experienced
such errors (after uncountable number of local DVDs) until I got there
region 1 ones. That's why I was so confident that libdvdcss is a
problem.

> Can you rip the disc with vobcopy?

No, the same as with ogle.

> Did you try playing or ripping the discs on a GNU/Linux system?

Hmm, my home is currently FreeBSD-only. :-) But I managed to try it and
- -- yes, it works. Strange. In the light of your post about LITE-ON
DVDRW LH-20A1S 9L08, is it possible that DVD drive causes all these
problems?

- -- 
Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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