From: ArameFarpado on
Em Segunda 08 Fevereiro 2010 05:27, Greg Russell escreveu:

> I was given a home-made DVD that plays on a standard DVD player, but I'm
> unable to view it on a computer, with the ultimate intention of frame-by-
> frame editing using kino. Your help and/or advice is very welcomed,
> please.
>

Are you sure it can play in any dvd player? or just those ones that record
too?

sounds like a dvd with a open session.

if it is, close the dvd with the recorder that created it.


From: Florian Diesch on
"Greg Russell" <grussell(a)invlaid.com> writes:

> "Florian Diesch" <diesch(a)spamfence.net> wrote in message
> news:u1b747-sej.ln1(a)mid.florian-diesch.de...
>
>>> # mount /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd -t iso9660
>>> mount: Not a directory
>>
>> /mnt/dvd has to be an existing directory.
>> What does "ls -l /mnt/dvd" tell you?
>
> $ ls -l /mnt/dvd
> total 0

Sorry, I mean
ls -ld /mnt/dvd


Florian
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From: Greg Russell on
In news:4b71df46$0$278$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk,
ArameFarpado <a-farpado.spam(a)netcabo.pt> typed:

> Are you sure it can play in any dvd player? or just those ones that
> record too?

I saw it played in a player, not a recorder.

> sounds like a dvd with a open session.

I very strongly suspect that that's the problem, as it's DVD-RW.


From: Dan Mills on
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:36:13 -0800, Greg Russell wrote:

> In news:4b71df46$0$278$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk, ArameFarpado
> <a-farpado.spam(a)netcabo.pt> typed:
>> sounds like a dvd with a open session.
>
> I very strongly suspect that that's the problem, as it's DVD-RW.

I have seen this behaviour, turns out that the dvd writer in Windows
Vista defaults to UDF Version 2.5 which Linux pre Kernel 2.6.26 cannot
read.

I strongly suspect that that is the problem.

Regards, Dan.