On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:25:41AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:50:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just now, when I tried to cp the *.VOB files from a movie disk > > mounted udf onto /dvd-rw, I got the same "Input/output error". > > Believe it or not, this is a function of the fact that the DVDs are > encrypted. I don't remember what the heck it is that you have to do to > actually get enough of a handle on the data to be able to use something > like DeCSS on it. I saw an interesting talk entitled "Decrypting DVD"
I'm not sure if this is the same thing you're talking about, but I know that a region-locked drive has to authenticate before the data can be read from a region-locked DVD. Not sure how all that works in Linux, though, I don't play DVDs on my computers. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
