Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was telling my kid about this last night, and he announced to me that > he has no trouble copying them using cp on the command line of his apple > mac (running the system 10.2). That puzzles me, because I think that > system is based on som

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 int

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread ric
I was telling my kid about this last night, and he announced to me that he has no trouble copying them using cp on the command line of his apple mac (running the system 10.2). That puzzles me, because I think that system is based on some sort of BSD, and I would have thought cp would work the same

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:01:33AM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Sunday 24 November 2002 11:25 pm, 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 th

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 24 November 2002 11:25 pm, 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 functio

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Heironimus
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 f

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
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 h

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:44, Jason Pepas wrote: > > On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob > > files themselves, mencoder can cop

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:44, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob files > themselves, mencoder can copy the streams into an avi file: > > mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc c

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:09, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 06:00:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I assume that dvds are not iso9660 format, and that may be why I can't > > cp them. If so, does anyone know what I should have in my /etc/fstab > > file? Thanks, > > As

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Out of curiosity I thought I'd try to copy files from a movie DVD to my > hard drive. When I tried to copy some of the .vob files, I got a > message that said something like input/output error, and nothing would > copy. This isn't re

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 06:00:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I assume that dvds are not iso9660 format, and that may be why I can't > cp them. If so, does anyone know what I should have in my /etc/fstab > file? Thanks, As I recall, DVDs use the UDF filesystem. I'm not sure if Debian give

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread ric
I just checked my /etc/fstab file (which I should have done earlier) and see that the line relevant to the dvd is: /dev/dvd/dvdiso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0 I assume that dvds are not iso9660 format, and that may be why I can't cp them. If so, does anyone know

can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread ric
Out of curiosity I thought I'd try to copy files from a movie DVD to my hard drive. When I tried to copy some of the .vob files, I got a message that said something like input/output error, and nothing would copy. This isn't real important to me, and I'm mostly simply curious, but is it possible