DVD Playback problems
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Dec 31 06:43:07 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 10:57 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> These are rented movies dvd's... All worked fine at the store when I
> took them back, and I rented some more, same thing, some will work,
> and the others don't
Even some of those can be bad. Though I'd only expect a few.
> lsdvd is not much use if fedora does not recognize that there is a
> disk in the drive.
Though, if you get a report about difficulty reading the discs that do
work, it raises your suspicions. Drives can still play discs,
apparently fine, to us, but actually not be reading them very easily.
> I would have thought if the drive it's self was failing then the
> reading of discs would be intermitent,
I would agree.
> but as it stands the drive will either always read the disc or always
> fail to see the disc. I thought it mightr have been a region code
> problem, but all the discs I have been using are from the same region.
> It seems to simply ignore some and accept others.
Compatibility issues springs to mind, such as discs that are designed to
be difficult to play on a computer, as a rather lame anti-piracy effort.
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