[ltp] DVD not working

[Richard Neill]

RICHARD CARTER wrote:
> Thanks to everybody for all your suggestions.  Some of  you have 
> mentioned checking or changing the "region".   I don't know what this 
> is.  It is something one does in Windows?  I'm still using Windows on 
> this T40 until I get this hardware problem fixed.
> 

http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/

You'll probably have to compile it yourself, but it's very easy to 
build, and has no external dependencies. You can run it from a Live CD 
such as Knoppix.

There's probably some windows equivalent, but I don't know what it would be.

Richard









> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 4:55:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [ltp] DVD not working
> 
>  >> The MATSHITA UJDA745 DVD/CDRW on my refurbished T40 Thinkpad seems
>  >> faulty. It will read: CD-RW data discs, audio discs and photo discs.  
>  >> But it will not read DVDs containing movies which can be read on
>  >> another computer running Mandriva 2007.
> 
> Another thought, which may help:
>   Put in a commerical DVD, but instead of trying to play the disc, try
> to mount the filesystem. You should find 2 directories named
> VIDEO_SOMETHING_OROTHER and AUDIO_SOMETHING_OROTHER  (sorry - can't
> recall exactly what!).
> 
> If you *can* see them => it's a DVD playback problem, either regionset
> or css.
> 
> If you can't see them => almost certainly a hardware fault (possibly a
> dirty lens or badly scratched disk though)
> 
> Obviously, you'll need linux for this - a nice way to do it is here:
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent
> 
> Richard
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