[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD players.

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Tue Nov 6 00:59:47 CST 2001


Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Some information - and a Question:
> 
> I noticed that Fry's had DVD drives for $39 - which is cheap enough for me
> to take a chance on. So I picked one up yesterday, swapped out my old CD-ROM
> drive and installed the 'ogle' DVD movie player - and (to my complete suprise)
> it all works *really* nicely. (I'm using SuSE - with a 2.2.19 kernel with an
> 850MHz CPU and nVidia GeForce-2 graphics).
> 
> However, if I 'mount' the DVD drive with a movie disk in it, I see a bunch
> of files - some small, some **HUGE** (1Gb). I was interested in getting a
> rough idea of the new drive's data rate - so I naively decided to time:
> 
>     cat /dvd/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob >/dev/null

Not sure what the status of the UDF driver is in 2.2.19.... realize that
many of the DVD players can access the device raw.... I'm not sure
that any do a true mount (but I could be wrong).

I get similar errors trying to do this.  It's not that
interesting to me though.



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