DVD that other computers can't play

[Pierre Abbat]

On Saturday 06 February 2010 21:56:54 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 	Try vlc (it's in pkgsrc/multimedia) I've not seen many it can't
> cope with. For the few it can't cope with use ddrescue (pkgsrc/sysutiils)
> to clone it to the hard disc without the (deliberate) bad sectors with
> something like:
>
> ddrescue -b 2048 /dev/cd0 dvd.iso
>
> 	Then vlc or mplayer should have no trouble playing the resultant
> iso.

I'm installing vlc now. The problem appears to be not bad sectors, but a 
missing codec, though the error message Windows gave was quite cryptic and I 
had to google it to make sense of it.

Pierre

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