Antoine schreef: >>I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I >>get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running >>gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and >>then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with about 30 seconds >>between reads - clearly not an option for the last 1 gig! >>Seeing the problems I tried (on machine 1) remerging and the merging >>~x86 versions of libdvdread and libdvdcss but no change. >>Any help or even similar stories would be most appreciated. > > > Is it possible that these problems come from /usr/src/linux pointing to > the ck sources instead of the 2.6.8 gentoo std that I am now running? > Should I try to recompile? > Cheers > Antoine
I don't so much see how that could be involved. But you say these are rented DVDs? Are they new films (such as "Kingdom of Heaven", rather than older films such as "Fargo")? The causes I see as more likely than the kernel link are: 1) dirt (rented DVDs pass through a lot of hands) 2) new encryption that libdvdcss cannot handle. After all, that regstered encoding copy-protection business that the media providers have been pushing/implementing (I don't follow RIAA/MPAA news that closely) is certainly more likely to be on DVDs available for rental, since "they" know that it's a source to rip DVDs. So that's where I'd put it if I thought it was important to make it (meaning on DVDs destined for rental outlets). Plus, you *played* it under PowerDVD, but you didn't try to *rip* it under Windows-- I suspect that it wouldn't work there either, and that PowerDVD and other Windows players have the facility to bypass the copy protection for reading, but that the DVD itself is "copy-proofed" against both Windows and Linux tools. Clearly some of them are-- I just read (not a week or two ago) about a French claimant who won (!!) a case claiming that DVD copy protection violated his privacy rights (he was trying to copy a DVD to a video tape-- the story is at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154663,00.html ). So clearly the technology is in use. Perhaps it's bitten you in the figurative butt. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
