I have built an eCS 2 machine with a DVD player and a DVD recorder.
Having a fresh install I suppose I also have the latest UDF.IFS
(installed and working AFAICT).
Still I seem unable to make eCS see a DVD video disc.
As I insert a DVD into the reader (or the writer) it seems unable to
recognize it.
This happens also with DVDs I record onto a DVD recorder, no matter
what I do.
Might someone suggest something? I think it's strange that UDF.IFS
can't see a DVD formatted disc.
Thanks in advance!
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Mentore Siesto
Did you install cdfs?
Dave
Do you mean CDFS.IFS?
I can't verify it for now. Will take a look this evening.
Thank you Dave.
Mentore
Ok, I got these two lines in CONFIG.SYS:
IFS=C:\OS2\BOOT\UDF.IFS
IFS=C:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS /Q /W
I should gather more info on these...
Mentore
Mentore Siesto wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have built an eCS 2 machine with a DVD player and a DVD recorder.
>
> Having a fresh install I suppose I also have the latest UDF.IFS
> (installed and working AFAICT).
>
> Still I seem unable to make eCS see a DVD video disc.
>
> As I insert a DVD into the reader (or the writer) it seems unable to
> recognize it.
>
> This happens also with DVDs I record onto a DVD recorder, no matter
> what I do.
>
Did you Finalise/Make Compatible the recorded dvd?
> Might someone suggest something? I think it's strange that UDF.IFS
> can't see a DVD formatted disc.
>
How about blank dvd+/-rw discs?
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
What hardware is involved? - ie mainboard chipset and are the dvd drives
ide or sata.
Is acpi involved? - if "Yes" post the config.sys line starting psd=
Can you play a dvd using (s)mplayer or vlc?
Regards
Pete
It should work. Lots of DVD's actually use CDFS which is why I asked.
You could change the /Q to /V to see if there is any weird output when
booting.
Dave
Let me explain a little more (I'm afraid I wrote too little :( )
I can read CDs and data DVDs without problems. The trouble is in
recognizing a video DVD.
Knowing a DVD video actually has a tree structure (and I can see it
correctly under Windoze), I tried to just read the disc and failed. In
the next few days I will try to play a dvd and/or rip it. We'll see :)
The same problem, btw, occurs on a linux install on the same system.
Mentore
I have no clue what you mean by "recognizing".
> Knowing a DVD video actually has a tree structure (and I can see it
> correctly under Windoze), I tried to just read the disc and failed.
I have no clue what you mean by "failed".
AFAIK, a correctly created DVD can be read in 3 different ways: by
direct sector access (IFO is at known offset, and specifies at which
offsets the rest of the data is), by ISO-NUMBERS filesystem
(recognized by cdfs.ifs), and by UDF (version?) filesystem
(recognzided by udf.ifs).
Anyway, data sectors may be encrypted; AND the encryption process may
be "obscured" by region codes.
Given all this, one cannot deduce what happens from scarce fragment
you have written. Run DVDDAO reader in verbose mode - it would bive
you more details.
Ilya
P.S. I use
dvddao --aspidriver aspirou$ --source-device %SCSI_CD% --device file:%1 --eject --verbose 4 %2& s:
%1 is any file name; %2& is usually empty; to find %SCSI_CD%, I would
run
cdrecord2 -scanbus | less
(cdredord - one without 2 - gives incompatible SCSI_CD; sigh... But
people with newer cd-WHATEVER.dmd can use drive letters instead of bus
addresses...)
> direct sector access (IFO is at known offset, and specifies at which
> offsets the rest of the data is), by ISO-NUMBERS filesystem
> (recognized by cdfs.ifs), and by UDF (version?) filesystem
> (recognzided by udf.ifs).
Sorry,
Ilya
No problems. By the way, thanks for your answers, I will take a look
in the next few days :-)
Mentore