YOU Sources

Steven Pasternak

13 Jul 2005 13 Jul '05

19:30

Hi! I went to run a Yast Online Update on my 9.3 system, and it seems like most of the sources are gone. I first started using SuSE about a year ago with 9.1, and there were many sources. I even booted up a 9.1 system and most of the sources for it are gone too. Where are they? -Steven

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Kevanf1

13 Jul 13 Jul

19:34

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On 13/07/05, Steven Pasternak wrote:

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Hi! I went to run a Yast Online Update on my 9.3 system, and it seems like most of the sources are gone. I first started using SuSE about a year ago with 9.1, and there were many sources. I even booted up a 9.1 system and most of the sources for it are gone too. Where are they? -Steven

I thought the list had gotten a bit shorter. I only seem to have German sources now whereas before I had at least one in the UK. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Carlos E. R.

14 Jul 14 Jul

23:55

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I thought the list had gotten a bit shorter. I only seem to have German sources now whereas before I had at least one in the UK.

I read somewhere (suse site?) that it uses some intelligence to provide a list of servers it thinks are nearer you. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC1vtwtTMYHG2NR9URAog5AJ4xbpNVVtmzucnnb6Qqi2yVeiKOOgCfXOYU 1eOrImnuE25Sfi88/dAhiI0= =pKn9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Kevanf1

15 Jul 15 Jul

09:31

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On 15/07/05, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Wednesday 2005-07-13 at 20:34 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

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I thought the list had gotten a bit shorter. I only seem to have German sources now whereas before I had at least one in the UK.

I read somewhere (suse site?) that it uses some intelligence to provide a list of servers it thinks are nearer you.

Interesting, I'm in the UK :-) Is the list refreshed dynamically perhaps? If so, the other servers could have been down at the time. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Ken Schneider

11:34

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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 10:31 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 15/07/05, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Wednesday 2005-07-13 at 20:34 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

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I thought the list had gotten a bit shorter. I only seem to have German sources now whereas before I had at least one in the UK.

I read somewhere (suse site?) that it uses some intelligence to provide a list of servers it thinks are nearer you.

Interesting, I'm in the UK :-) Is the list refreshed dynamically perhaps? If so, the other servers could have been down at the time.

The list is shorter in an effort to provide only local mirrors and reduce the load on ftp.suse.com. I'm in southeast US and only US mirrors show on the list. I can add others but a local mirror provides great response and download speeds. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Kevanf1

13:56

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On 15/07/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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The list is shorter in an effort to provide only local mirrors and reduce the load on ftp.suse.com. I'm in southeast US and only US mirrors show on the list. I can add others but a local mirror provides great response and download speeds.

Well that's a good idea. But, I'm here in the UK and all the servers in my list are in Germany. I know that there are mirrors here in the UK. My region is set up as the UK (from installation). So now - not for the first time - I'm puzzled :-) -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Dr. Gavin Pillay

14:29

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Same Here, I know there are South African servers, but I keep getting European servers. -- SynapseR

Ken Schneider

14:41

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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:29 +0200, Dr. Gavin Pillay wrote:

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Same Here, I know there are South African servers, but I keep getting European servers.

My list shows one German site and five USA sites which is why I provided the info that I did. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Kevanf1

15:48

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On 15/07/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:29 +0200, Dr. Gavin Pillay wrote:

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Same Here, I know there are South African servers, but I keep getting European servers.

My list shows one German site and five USA sites which is why I provided the info that I did.

Hmmm, there is most definitely something odd going on then :-) -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Ken Schneider

16:16

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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:48 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 15/07/05, Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:29 +0200, Dr. Gavin Pillay wrote:

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Same Here, I know there are South African servers, but I keep getting European servers.

My list shows one German site and five USA sites which is why I provided the info that I did.

Hmmm, there is most definitely something odd going on then :-)

Also this is on 9.3, not sure of earlier versions. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Gavin

16 Jul 16 Jul

09:53

New subject: DVD Decrypter

Hi All, I've read the various DVD Decrypter under Wine guides I could find and I still can't get the program to recognise my dvd drive. When it starts, it says : Searching for SCSI/ATAPI drives No Drives Found I've set my wine.cfg file to read "nt40" Any ideas ? -- SynapseR

Sid Boyce

10:54

New subject: [SLE] DVD Decrypter

Gavin wrote:

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Hi All,

I've read the various DVD Decrypter under Wine guides I could find and I still can't get the program to recognise my dvd drive. When it starts, it says :

Searching for SCSI/ATAPI drives No Drives Found

I've set my wine.cfg file to read "nt40"

Any ideas ?

-- SynapseR

No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Anders Johansson

11:18

New subject: [SLE] DVD Decrypter

On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:54, Sid Boyce wrote:

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No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler.

Out of interest, how did you manage to make k3b work? As far as I can see, it's been broken for some time for copying video DVDs. Have you found a patched version somewhere?

Anders Johansson

16:21

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On Saturday 16 July 2005 13:18, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:54, Sid Boyce wrote:

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No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler.

Out of interest, how did you manage to make k3b work? As far as I can see, it's been broken for some time for copying video DVDs. Have you found a patched version somewhere?

Never mind, I see that the latest version from packman seems to be working again.

Ken Schneider

16:33

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On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:21 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Saturday 16 July 2005 13:18, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:54, Sid Boyce wrote:

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No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler.

Out of interest, how did you manage to make k3b work? As far as I can see, it's been broken for some time for copying video DVDs. Have you found a patched version somewhere?

Never mind, I see that the latest version from packman seems to be working again.

There is also a newer version of libdvdcss that was releasted last week. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

Sid Boyce

22:49

New subject: [SLE] DVD Decrypter

Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:21 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Saturday 16 July 2005 13:18, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:54, Sid Boyce wrote:

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No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler.

Out of interest, how did you manage to make k3b work? As far as I can see, it's been broken for some time for copying video DVDs. Have you found a patched version somewhere?

Never mind, I see that the latest version from packman seems to be working again.

There is also a newer version of libdvdcss that was releasted last week.

Thanks, I didn't spot 1.2.9 on freshmeat. I thought it was no longer being maintained. The major changes seem to be to Win32 and Solaris. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Anders Johansson

23:16

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On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:49, Sid Boyce wrote:

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Thanks, I didn't spot 1.2.9 on freshmeat. I thought it was no longer being maintained.

Not everything needs to be constantly updated. If something is designed to perform a function, and it performs that function and no errors are found, there is little need to keep updating just for the sake of it. libdvdcss was designed to decrypt dvds, and so far it has done pretty well, at least on my discs. 1.2.8 was released almost exactly two years ago, and it's been decrypting DVDs on my machines ever since without any errors I've detected When something isn't touched for a long time, it could be a sign of quality, not death At least, that's what I keep telling myself :)

Sid Boyce

23:57

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Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:49, Sid Boyce wrote:

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Thanks, I didn't spot 1.2.9 on freshmeat. I thought it was no longer being maintained.

Not everything needs to be constantly updated. If something is designed to perform a function, and it performs that function and no errors are found, there is little need to keep updating just for the sake of it.

libdvdcss was designed to decrypt dvds, and so far it has done pretty well, at least on my discs. 1.2.8 was released almost exactly two years ago, and it's been decrypting DVDs on my machines ever since without any errors I've detected

When something isn't touched for a long time, it could be a sign of quality, not death

At least, that's what I keep telling myself :)

Not always, there have been a few projects that have quietly died, but libdvdcss has been solid from day one. I thought just may be it was done, done well and forgotten. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Sid Boyce

22:33

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Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:54, Sid Boyce wrote:

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No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler.

Out of interest, how did you manage to make k3b work? As far as I can see, it's been broken for some time for copying video DVDs. Have you found a patched version somewhere?

barrabas:/ftp/jul05 # rpm -qi k3b Name : k3b Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.12 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 6 Build Date: Mon 20 Jun 2005 01:59:15 BST Install date: Tue 12 Jul 2005 21:40:02 BST Build Host: e52.suse.de Group : Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record Source RPM: k3b-0.12-6.src.rpm Size : 17901348 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 20 Jun 2005 02:08:07 BST, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback URL : http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ Summary : A universal CD and DVD burning application Description : K3b is a CD burning application that supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 audiofiles, DVD burning, CDDB, and much more. From what I remember dvbackup created the files and k3b used the directory to burn the DVD. lancelot@barrabas:~> l VIDEO_TS/ total 3716709 drwxr--r-- 2 lancelot users 336 2005-06-23 22:04 ./ drwxrwxr-x 55 lancelot users 3144 2005-07-16 20:56 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 1029 2005-06-23 22:04 MY_FILE.k3b -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 6144 2005-06-23 12:38 VIDEO_TS.BUP -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 6144 2005-06-23 12:38 VIDEO_TS.IFO -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 77824 2005-06-23 12:34 VTS_01_0.BUP -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 77824 2005-06-23 12:34 VTS_01_0.IFO -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 1073739776 2005-06-23 12:35 VTS_01_1.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 1073739776 2005-06-23 12:36 VTS_01_2.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 1073739776 2005-06-23 12:37 VTS_01_3.VOB -rw-r--r-- 1 lancelot users 580790272 2005-06-23 12:38 VTS_01_4.VOB # o VIDEO_TS/MY_FILE.k3b Archive: ./VIDEO_TS/MY_FILE.k3b Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name -------- ------ ------- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- 17 Stored 17 0% 06-23-05 22:04 a63b80ce mimetype 2438 Defl:N 798 67% 06-23-05 22:04 c2f92a4a maindata.xml -------- ------- --- ------- 2455 815 67% 2 files Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Anders Johansson

23:18

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On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:33, Sid Boyce wrote:

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From what I remember dvbackup created the files and k3b used the directory to burn the DVD.

Aha, I thought you were talking about the k3b ability to rip movies to avi, which was gone for a long time, but which - as I noted - is finally back (yay!)

Sid Boyce

17 Jul 17 Jul

00:06

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Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:33, Sid Boyce wrote:

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From what I remember dvbackup created the files and k3b used the directory to burn the DVD.

Aha, I thought you were talking about the k3b ability to rip movies to avi, which was gone for a long time, but which - as I noted - is finally back (yay!)

I haven't seen that in the SuSE 0.12.6 and I've noticed sourceforge and packman both have 0.12.2. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Anders Johansson

00:17

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On Sunday 17 July 2005 02:06, Sid Boyce wrote:

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I haven't seen that in the SuSE 0.12.6 and I've noticed sourceforge and packman both have 0.12.2.

The SUSE version isn't 0.12.6, it's 0.12-6. In other words, 0.12.0 build 6 It's the packman 0.12.2 I have where it's working again You can see it even in the SUSE version (pop a video DVD in the tray, click on the DVD device, and then right click on the movie title and select 'copy'), it just fails miserably

Anders Johansson

00:20

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On Sunday 17 July 2005 02:17, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Sunday 17 July 2005 02:06, Sid Boyce wrote:

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I haven't seen that in the SuSE 0.12.6 and I've noticed sourceforge and packman both have 0.12.2.

The SUSE version isn't 0.12.6, it's 0.12-6. In other words, 0.12.0 build 6

It's the packman 0.12.2 I have where it's working again

You can see it even in the SUSE version (pop a video DVD in the tray, click on the DVD device, and then right click on the movie title and select 'copy'), it just fails miserably

Oops, my bad, it actually works in 0.12-6. It's in the default 9.3 version where it fails (as in all other k3b versions for the past year or so)

Gavin

16 Jul 16 Jul

12:53

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Sid Boyce wrote:

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Gavin wrote:

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Hi All,

I've read the various DVD Decrypter under Wine guides I could find and I still can't get the program to recognise my dvd drive. When it starts, it says :

Searching for SCSI/ATAPI drives No Drives Found

I've set my wine.cfg file to read "nt40"

Any ideas ?

-- SynapseR

No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler. Regards Sid.

How do you get kdvdbackup to extract individual tracks ? -- SynapseR -- Suse9.3eR

Sid Boyce

22:45

New subject: [SLE] DVD Decrypter

Gavin wrote:

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Sid Boyce wrote:

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Gavin wrote:

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Hi All,

I've read the various DVD Decrypter under Wine guides I could find and I still can't get the program to recognise my dvd drive. When it starts, it says :

Searching for SCSI/ATAPI drives No Drives Found

I've set my wine.cfg file to read "nt40"

Any ideas ?

-- SynapseR

No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler. Regards Sid.

How do you get kdvdbackup to extract individual tracks ?

barrabas:/home/lancelot # dvdbackup -h Usage: dvdbackup [options] -i device where device is your dvd device -v X where X is the amount of verbosity -I for information about the DVD -o directory where directory is your backup target -M backup the whole DVD -F backup the main feature of the DVD -T X backup title set X -t X backup title X -s X backup from chapter X -e X backup to chapter X -a 0 to get aspect ratio 4:3 instead of 16:9 if both are present -h print a brief usage message -? print a brief usage message -i is manditory -o is manditory except if you use -I -a is option to the -F switch and has no effect on other options -s and -e should prefereibly be used together with -t # dvdbackup -M -i /dev/dvd -o /home/lancelot kdvdbackup only has "Entire DVD" and options "DVD device", "Where to Extract" and "DVD Title Name (Leave blank for autodetection from the DVD)". Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Terry Eck

17 Jul 17 Jul

17:17

New subject: [SLE] DVD Decrypter

Sid Boyce wrote:

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# dvdbackup -M -i /dev/dvd -o /home/lancelot kdvdbackup only has "Entire DVD" and options "DVD device", "Where to Extract" and "DVD Title Name (Leave blank for autodetection from the DVD)". Regards Sid.

I went and installed dvdbackup on my SuSE 9.2 system. Using Sid's command above appears to work like a charm. The directory listing under /home/eck is shown below: The question I have is do I burn the entire directory at the MOVIE_TITLE level or do I burn the DVD at the VIDEO_TS level? Also, do the attached list of files look correct? My version of K3b is 0.11.15cvs. Any problems expected with that version? I hate to start burning 7 dollar coasters (double layer DVD). Thanks for any help, Terry The following is a listing for du -a MOVIE_TITLE: 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.BUP 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.IFO 8 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB 17389 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB 84 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP 84 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO 75526 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB 1049552 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB 1049039 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB 1049584 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB 1049336 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_4.VOB 1049420 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_5.VOB 143224 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_6.VOB 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.BUP 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.IFO 8 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB 22374 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.BUP 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO 8 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB 152869 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB 24 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.BUP 24 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.IFO 8 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB 322114 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB 56 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.BUP 56 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.IFO 8 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB 1049584 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB 1049572 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_2.VOB 15507 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_3.VOB 28 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP 28 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO 98156 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.BUP 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.IFO 8 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB 44708 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.BUP 20 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.IFO 8 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB 32 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB 8238623 MOVIE_TILE/VIDEO_TS 8238623 MOVIE_TILE -- SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586) -- 2.6.8-24.16-default -- Sun 07/17/05 12:05pm up 23:11, 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.12, 0.52

Gavin

16 Jul 16 Jul

13:01

New subject: [SLE] DVD Decrypter

Sid Boyce wrote:

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Gavin wrote:

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Hi All,

I've read the various DVD Decrypter under Wine guides I could find and I still can't get the program to recognise my dvd drive. When it starts, it says :

Searching for SCSI/ATAPI drives No Drives Found

I've set my wine.cfg file to read "nt40"

Any ideas ?

-- SynapseR

No use for Linux tools? libdvdcss, dvdbackup, k3b, kdvdbackup etc. I've used dvdbackup and k3b recently to make a copy of a video dvd. kdvdbackup makes it look even simpler. Regards Sid.

2nd question please. How do I get kdvdbackup to not split files into 800 meg files ? Thanks -- SynapseR -- Suse9.3eR

Hans du Plooy

23:01

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On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 11:53 +0200, Gavin wrote: Don't bother - too much performance is lost through the emulation layer, and it doesn't work so reliable (if you get it to work at all). Donload libdvdcss from videolan.org or the rpms from packman's site, google for vobcopy and download and install that. Vobcopy can do a number of things. It can make a compelete mirror of a DVD's file structure, decrypting it on the fly, but leaving it otherwise as is. It can extract individual tracks, It can decrypt a track (say a movie) and save it as one large vob file (usefully if you want to encode with, say, mencoder), or split the files up (2gb iirc). Excellent tool, well worth trying out. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

Carlos E. R.

00:50

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2005-07-15 at 16:48 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

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My list shows one German site and five USA sites which is why I provided the info that I did.

Hmmm, there is most definitely something odd going on then :-)

YOU uses the timezone of your computer to determine the list of servers. Set yours to "Europe/London" in Yast if you want servers from UK. However, that doesn't guarantee perfect results, because I don't get Spanish servers (that do exist) but Germans ones. Remember that I said that this is documented somewhere in the SuSE site. Here, in fact: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/03/cg_suseservers.html | * The server list proposed by YOU makes no sense. Servers are | scattered around the world (USA, Australia, Japan, etc.), but there | are no servers near your own location. | | Cause |------- | | In order for YOU to define a suitable mirror server for your SUSE | product, the SUSE Web server www.suse.de runs a small program that is | queried by YOU in order to determine which mirror servers are available | for the product you use. | | The main information transmitted by YOU includes the product used, | version numbers for important YOU components and the computer | architecture. As of SUSE LINUX 9.0, the system also transmits additional | information about the system time zone, as configured by you in YaST2. | | Using the transmitted time zone and the product information, the system | uses a list of possible http and ftp mirror servers around the world to | create a list of mirror servers near you. | | This list is made up of between 6 and 10 mirror servers which are mixed | using a random function. They are then displayed in the YOU installation | source selection window. | | The SUSE Web server also checks at regular intervals to determine which | mirror servers are still available. If the access fails, then the | relevant mirror servers are removed from the list of possible mirror | servers. | | Solution |---------- | | If a mirror server is not working properly, try one of the other | possible mirror servers in the next YOU run. The list is deliberately | mixed in order to spread the downloads as evenly as possible to ensure a | satisfactory result in most cases. | | If the mirror server selection list appears to be completely unsuitable, | then you should check your time zone settings in YaST2 (provided you are | using SUSE LINUX from version 9.0 and above). The default selections | with "country" time zones such as "Europe/Berlin", "Europe/Paris" etc. | work particularly well. If, for example, you set the US zone "GMT-7", | then it is not possible to set a specific default. Instead, you should | select "US/Mountain". | If the time zone transmitted by YOU to the SUSE Web server is unknown, | or if you are using a version of SUSE LINUX before version 9.0, then the | system will display German mirror servers first. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC2Fn2tTMYHG2NR9URAtklAJ4/GATvEzFX3CFRyV7r9gDnT7Z4agCaAwrP EZpzEsuosDD5CQzVLQXJIy4= =+5Jb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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My list shows one German site and five USA sites which is why I provided the info that I did.

Hmmm, there is most definitely something odd going on then :-)

YOU uses the timezone of your computer to determine the list of servers. Set yours to "Europe/London" in Yast if you want servers from UK. However, that doesn't guarantee perfect results, because I don't get Spanish servers (that do exist) but Germans ones.

Remember that I said that this is documented somewhere in the SuSE site. Here, in fact:

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/03/cg_suseservers.html

| * The server list proposed by YOU makes no sense. Servers are | scattered around the world (USA, Australia, Japan, etc.), but there | are no servers near your own location. | | Cause |------- | | In order for YOU to define a suitable mirror server for your SUSE | product, the SUSE Web server www.suse.de runs a small program that is | queried by YOU in order to determine which mirror servers are available | for the product you use. | | The main information transmitted by YOU includes the product used, | version numbers for important YOU components and the computer | architecture. As of SUSE LINUX 9.0, the system also transmits additional | information about the system time zone, as configured by you in YaST2. | | Using the transmitted time zone and the product information, the system | uses a list of possible http and ftp mirror servers around the world to | create a list of mirror servers near you. | | This list is made up of between 6 and 10 mirror servers which are mixed | using a random function. They are then displayed in the YOU installation | source selection window. | | The SUSE Web server also checks at regular intervals to determine which | mirror servers are still available. If the access fails, then the | relevant mirror servers are removed from the list of possible mirror | servers. | | Solution |---------- | | If a mirror server is not working properly, try one of the other | possible mirror servers in the next YOU run. The list is deliberately | mixed in order to spread the downloads as evenly as possible to ensure a | satisfactory result in most cases. | | If the mirror server selection list appears to be completely unsuitable, | then you should check your time zone settings in YaST2 (provided you are | using SUSE LINUX from version 9.0 and above). The default selections | with "country" time zones such as "Europe/Berlin", "Europe/Paris" etc. | work particularly well. If, for example, you set the US zone "GMT-7", | then it is not possible to set a specific default. Instead, you should | select "US/Mountain".

| If the time zone transmitted by YOU to the SUSE Web server is unknown, | or if you are using a version of SUSE LINUX before version 9.0, then the | system will display German mirror servers first.

Hmmm, I'm still puzzled then. My time zone is set to Europe/London GMT. Always is from the very start of installation - well, where I can specify it anyway :-) Perhaps the UK servers have been down?? -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Carlos E. R.

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Hmmm, I'm still puzzled then. My time zone is set to Europe/London GMT. Always is from the very start of installation - well, where I can specify it anyway :-) Perhaps the UK servers have been down??

More probably the program the article mentions has gone nuts ;-) No, It happens to me as well, no Spanish servers at all - and there is at least one I know. Does that happen to the rest o UK users on this list? If it is so, then you should report to feedback as a generalized problem. It is you only, then there is another thing somewhere :-) Same goes for me in Spain, of course. I'll try to remember to ask in our list, I can't right now, busy. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC2OPytTMYHG2NR9URAieCAKCDne09UotA/Sj6Gu0DjklF4KsVKACdGwuF dkX2xOcZbQuGh0aPybu+uys= =/llo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Kevanf1

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On 16/07/05, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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More probably the program the article mentions has gone nuts ;-)

No, It happens to me as well, no Spanish servers at all - and there is at least one I know.

Does that happen to the rest o UK users on this list? If it is so, then you should report to feedback as a generalized problem. It is you only, then there is another thing somewhere :-)

Same goes for me in Spain, of course. I'll try to remember to ask in our list, I can't right now, busy.

Good idea Carlos. Come on then all you UK SuSE 9.3 users. What is your list of mirrors like? Are you getting all German sites or do you get the UK ones still? -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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