Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:47:25 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reading a Video CD from a DVD drive on 7.0 Message-ID: <20080412214725.GC24224@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <b749ab38bff222827a2c803d7c8e2a56@gmail.com> References: <b749ab38bff222827a2c803d7c8e2a56@gmail.com>
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--eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:32:22AM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > I recently made the upgrade to 7.0, and my girlfriend had some video cd's= =20 > she wanted help with(end result is putting two pal vcd's on one ntsc dvd)= =2E =20 > I had a couple she'd given me before that were actually dvd's so I first= =20 > put the new ones in my dvd drive and tried using mplayer on them, but it= =20 > locks up with the read big timeout thing that I'm sure almost anyone who'= s=20 > messed with dvd's has seen. I haven't. DVD's work fine here with mplayer on amd64. > Under 6.3, that error would do the three=20 > tries, and then another three, and quit. I didn't not test under 6.3 usi= ng=20 > an actual vcd so I'm not sure if that's specific to the issue or not. Bu= t=20 > under 7.0, it'd just keep retrying forever. Since it was locked in devic= e,=20 > I couldn't kill it, I couldn't eject the disc, and had to forcibly reboot= =20 > the system. Now, the operating system still worked, but the drive was=20 > locked, and the kernel could not shut down. I doubt this is expected or= =20 > tolerated behavior but given that it involves video cd's in a dvd drive= =20 > trying to be accessed as a dvd, I'm not sure it's been seen very often at= =20 > all. Was behavior changed from 6 to 7, or was this just an untested case= ? =20 > Does anyone know how best to deal with processes locked in "device"? When trying to play a vcd in mplayer I just get a CDRIOCSETBLOCKSIZE error. There are tools in ports to rip a VCD. See multimedia/vcdimager. For wayward devices to can try using cdcontrol(1) or atacontrol(8). Roland --=20 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) --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgBLe0ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWdAQCgkZ8xZoF8T0DkbXVwknQaVGgF QTsAoJkXLtB0KcZuw6GNmotIqF0csZ9D =6drY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eHhjakXzOLJAF9wJ--
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