From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 01:39:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3CE1065676 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEDA8FC0A for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mAG1dLGs005791; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:38:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:38:55 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20081116013854.GA2977@thought.org> References: <20081115084600.GA4998@thought.org> <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: "High Noonn" DVD?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:39:02 -0000 On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:37:26PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my > > computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the > > *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98, > > and the DVD just now. I'm not that nutty to waste a DVD-R on it; I'm > > just wondering my none of my players won't play it. > > Different region? Most players are locked to a certain region, and won't > play disks from other regions. Although it is possible to install > upgraded or modified firmware that removes the region encoding, that > usually needs a windows program. And it can brick your player when done > incorrectly. > > Roland I just realized that last night the DVD jumped right into the Start of the film. No FBI threats of extraordinary rendition to those who would copy, no pre-list of places to jump to. The extra features were at the end, only. So it's probably a bad disc. Also, the few time I tried different players--vlc first, the player locked up and the DVD tray was wegded. Doing a shutdown I was the console spitting out "DMA error" type strings. So ... while *usually* our players are fault tolerant, not in this case. Since it's awhile until 2013, I'm not going to bother asking the library for another copy. thanks, gents, gary PS: I just tried of of the few DVD's i have [thank-you, PBS], "Keltic Woman"; works flawlessly. {mm-BAR}, :-) > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org