On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:39:07 -0600

Sunny wrote:

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On Monday 13 December 2004 22:54, Synthetic Cartoonz

wrote:

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(SuSE 9.2 Professional)

I don't think this is a problem with linux. I think it

may have more to do

...

with the PC...

I tried to share the DVD in my linux machine with a PC,

adding this to the

...

smb.conf:

[dvd] comment = DVD drive path = /media/cdrecorder writable = no locking = no

The PC sees the DVD drive just fine. However, I've

tried several DVD

...

player programs on the PC and none of them will

recognize that the drive is

...

a DVD player. I tried several movie discs in the DVD

drive, and the PC

...

shows the discs do contain the movie files. However,

even the PC DVD

...

player software that allows choosing a movie file to

play won't play the

...

movies -- just garbage appears which suggests the

program doesn't see (or

...

know) enough information to decrypt the video.

Is there something I can do to Samba to make the share

appear more

...

"drive-like."

What are the players you tried. On what OS?

Win XP. I've tried MS Media Player which SAYS it plays DVDs, the lame Interactual player that comes on many DVDs and Cliprex DVD Player Professional. On Tuesday 14 December 2004 02:54, it clown wrote:

Could it be you're network settings? If it is playing the dvd all garbage maby it could be that you're network is to slow or maby the pc?Check if everything is set to 100 full duplex.

100Mbit, both the file server with the DVD drive and the PC are connected to the same switch. Rsync and NFS performance (to other linux boxes on the same switch) are both extremely fast. If, on the off chance, it is a throughput problem, would it be reasonable to expect that if the PC can read the files I could just copy the disc locally to the PC and play the files directly?

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:13:58 -0500, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:39:07 -0600

Sunny wrote:

...

On Monday 13 December 2004 22:54, Synthetic Cartoonz

wrote:

...

(SuSE 9.2 Professional)

I don't think this is a problem with linux. I think it

may have more to do

...

with the PC...

I tried to share the DVD in my linux machine with a PC,

adding this to the

...

smb.conf:

[dvd] comment = DVD drive path = /media/cdrecorder writable = no locking = no

The PC sees the DVD drive just fine. However, I've

tried several DVD

...

player programs on the PC and none of them will

recognize that the drive is

...

a DVD player. I tried several movie discs in the DVD

drive, and the PC

...

shows the discs do contain the movie files. However,

even the PC DVD

...

player software that allows choosing a movie file to

play won't play the

...

movies -- just garbage appears which suggests the

program doesn't see (or

...

know) enough information to decrypt the video.

Is there something I can do to Samba to make the share

appear more

...

"drive-like."

What are the players you tried. On what OS?

Win XP. I've tried MS Media Player which SAYS it plays DVDs, the lame Interactual player that comes on many DVDs and Cliprex DVD Player Professional.

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 02:54, it clown wrote:

...

Could it be you're network settings? If it is playing the dvd all garbage maby it could be that you're network is to slow or maby the pc?Check if everything is set to 100 full duplex.

100Mbit, both the file server with the DVD drive and the PC are connected to the same switch. Rsync and NFS performance (to other linux boxes on the same switch) are both extremely fast.

If, on the off chance, it is a throughput problem, would it be reasonable to expect that if the PC can read the files I could just copy the disc locally to the PC and play the files directly?

It won't work that way. All "legal" players need to access the dvd directly (the device) to unscramble CSS. You may try to use dvdbackup on the linux box to copy (and decrypt) the dvd in local folder. Then share this folder. Cheers Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85