[opensuse] Media mystery.
I've run across a DVD that is quite different than any other I've seen and would like to know if anyone here knows the "story" with this type of disk. First, the DVD is a Disney DVD, "The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian." It plays fine on my desktop and DVD player. I wanted to make an archival copy, because my grandchildren like to watch some movies often (this is one of them), I make a copy to view and store the original. Yes....I use K9Copy. Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!! Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player? Thanks in advance, Fred -- "Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!!
Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player?
Probably some kind of copy protection ;-) Just put some wrong data into the right places of the filesystem and you will get that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Markus Koßmann wrote:
Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!!
Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player?
Probably some kind of copy protection ;-) Just put some wrong data into the right places of the filesystem and you will get that.
'VERY strange! K9Copy is still extracting and I'm up to 7.5G already! If there wasn't that much on the disk, I'd not be getting it written to the hard drive, one would think. I've looked for some odd-ball protection scheme as well, and can't find that. In another attempt to see what was going on, thinking that it simply is a method to keep from copying the disk, I WAS able to watch the movie off the hard drive. This is the strangest disk I've seen!! Fred -- "Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dne četrtek 08 januar 2009 ob 09:34:02 je Markus Koßmann napisal(a):
Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!!
Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player?
Probably some kind of copy protection ;-) Just put some wrong data into the right places of the filesystem and you will get that
IIRC, there is also something similar to symlinking the files on a DVD; so, for example, files in each language directory are counted separately, although they may be actually just "symlinks" to other locations. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
JosipBroz wrote:
Dne četrtek 08 januar 2009 ob 09:34:02 je Markus Koßmann napisal(a):
Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!!
Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player? Probably some kind of copy protection ;-) Just put some wrong data into the right places of the filesystem and you will get that
IIRC, there is also something similar to symlinking the files on a DVD; so, for example, files in each language directory are counted separately, although they may be actually just "symlinks" to other locations.
It is strange....going to look at it later to view stats of the video dir. Whatever is going on, there's no way to copy it. Fred -- "Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 08 January 2009 19:41:58 Fred A. Miller wrote:
JosipBroz wrote:
Dne četrtek 08 januar 2009 ob 09:34:02 je Markus Koßmann napisal(a):
Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!!
Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player?
Probably some kind of copy protection ;-) Just put some wrong data into the right places of the filesystem and you will get that
IIRC, there is also something similar to symlinking the files on a DVD; so, for example, files in each language directory are counted separately, although they may be actually just "symlinks" to other locations.
It is strange....going to look at it later to view stats of the video dir. Whatever is going on, there's no way to copy it.
Fred, I won't be surprised if you get up around 9G once it's finished. I've seen this on some Andre Rieu DVD's (apparently it is quite common with commercially produced DVD's). Yes, it is possible to resample/transcode them down to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD-R using K9Copy (or even ffmpeg) with some loss of quality (more so video than sound). Regards, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================
Rodney Baker wrote:
On Thursday 08 January 2009 19:41:58 Fred A. Miller wrote:
Dne četrtek 08 januar 2009 ob 09:34:02 je Markus Koßmann napisal(a):
Now, if I open the disk with Konq. or Dolphin, they tell me the total number of files is 153 and the total size is 72.9G!! The disk cover says it's a dual layer DVD. It contains English, French, and Spanish languages. I'm presently extracting only the English files in K9Copy and already (compressed of course) have a total of almost 7G and it's not done yet!!
Can anyone explain what Disney has managed to do to get this much on a dual layer DVD, which I had assumed wouldn't even play on an old DVD player? Probably some kind of copy protection ;-) Just put some wrong data into the right places of the filesystem and you will get that IIRC, there is also something similar to symlinking the files on a DVD; so, for example, files in each language directory are counted separately, although they may be actually just "symlinks" to other locations. It is strange....going to look at it later to view stats of the video
JosipBroz wrote: dir. Whatever is going on, there's no way to copy it.
Fred,
I won't be surprised if you get up around 9G once it's finished. I've seen this on some Andre Rieu DVD's (apparently it is quite common with commercially produced DVD's).
Yes, it is possible to resample/transcode them down to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD-R using K9Copy (or even ffmpeg) with some loss of quality (more so video than sound).
Ah......I stopped the k9copy when it was 12G and still not done. Nope.....this is one strange DVD!! Fred -- "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, 1802 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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