On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:15:53PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >! unable to read sector 195204, reason: Input/output error > >! unable to read sector 195205, reason: Input/output error > > This may be because of new forms of copy protection they are adding to > DVDs. A DVD player navigates through the disc based on the structures > in the VOB files, so it can be told to skip blocks on the disc. If you > try to read the disc as a UDF filesystem, you'll hit the blocks that > the VOB navigation skips. > > The copy protection works by making those blocks bad so you cannot do a > block by block copy of the disc. > > >How do I do this? mkisofs? Or can I use mencode or dvdbackup? What do you > >recommend? > > If you get a recent version of vobcopy (http://vobcopy.org/), it should > be able to make a copy of the disc which can then be played off the HDD.
Why can't mplayer read the disk as if its playing the video but output to a file that can be played later? Can VLC? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
