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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2006 19:23:00 -0600
From:      "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
To:        "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@psualum.com>
Cc:        "freebsd@bitfreak.org" <freebsd@bitfreak.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:   Re: read cd's but not dvd's?
Message-ID:  <20061105192300.147c0494@serene.no-ip.org>
In-Reply-To: <8cb6106e0611041207v41a57784p136e9d06b7c668bf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:07:47 -0800, "Josh Carroll"
<josh.carroll@psualum.com> wrote:

> > That would probably be because DVDs use the UDF format.  ISO9660 is
> > only for CDs.
> 
> Actually, you can mount some DVDs with mount_iso9660, but obviously it
> won't work properly for large files.
> 
> Note that I don't think you can just mount a commercial DVD with
> mount_udf and start copying .VOB files off if it. You'll need to use
> something like libdvdread, etc. I had the same problems with my DVD
> drive, and thought it was my hardware or a kernel bug, but it's simply
> not possible to read files off an encrypted DVD after mounting with
> mount_udf.

k3b come in handy for this.  I've used it to copy DVD images that were
unreadable via dd.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"



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