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* [gentoo-user] tcprobe: no support for DVD reading
@ 2006-03-04 17:34 Wes Gray
  2006-03-04 19:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter
  2006-03-04 20:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Richard Fish
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Wes Gray @ 2006-03-04 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Any idea why my tcprobe isn't supporting dvd reading?  I have libdvdread
installed:

# tcprobe -H 10 -i /dev/dvd
(dvd_reader.c) no support for DVD reading configured - exit.
(iodump.c) unable to open directory "/dev/dvd"

# emerge -p libdvdread

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.4-r1
#

Do I need to do something special to the transcode compile options?
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* [gentoo-user]  Re: tcprobe: no support for DVD reading
  2006-03-04 17:34 [gentoo-user] tcprobe: no support for DVD reading Wes Gray
@ 2006-03-04 19:09 ` Peter
  2006-03-04 19:32   ` Wes Gray
  2006-03-04 20:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Richard Fish
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter @ 2006-03-04 19:09 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:34:09 -0800, Wes Gray wrote:

> Any idea why my tcprobe isn't supporting dvd reading?  I have libdvdread
> installed:
> 
> # tcprobe -H 10 -i /dev/dvd
> (dvd_reader.c) no support for DVD reading configured - exit.
> (iodump.c) unable to open directory "/dev/dvd"
> 
> # emerge -p libdvdread
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.4-r1
> #
> 
> Do I need to do something special to the transcode compile options?

1) Try as root. Some programs like cdrecord-ProDVD simply won't work on
some devices unless you're root or sudo root.

2) Make sure /dev/dvd actually points to your device.




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* Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: tcprobe: no support for DVD reading
  2006-03-04 19:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter
@ 2006-03-04 19:32   ` Wes Gray
  2006-03-04 22:08     ` [gentoo-user] " Peter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Wes Gray @ 2006-03-04 19:32 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:09:51PM -0500, Peter wrote:
> 
> 1) Try as root. Some programs like cdrecord-ProDVD simply won't work on
> some devices unless you're root or sudo root.
> 
> 2) Make sure /dev/dvd actually points to your device.

Doing it as root gives me the same error message.  gmplayer /dev/dvd works
fine to play a DVD, so I think it's OK.  Here is where it points:

% ls -la /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Mar  3 14:27 /dev/dvd -> hdd
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* Re: [gentoo-user] tcprobe: no support for DVD reading
  2006-03-04 17:34 [gentoo-user] tcprobe: no support for DVD reading Wes Gray
  2006-03-04 19:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter
@ 2006-03-04 20:59 ` Richard Fish
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Richard Fish @ 2006-03-04 20:59 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 3/4/06, Wes Gray <smiths@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Do I need to do something special to the transcode compile options?

Do you have USE=dvdread for transcode (emerge -pv transcode)?

-Richard

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* [gentoo-user]  Re: Re: tcprobe: no support for DVD reading
  2006-03-04 19:32   ` Wes Gray
@ 2006-03-04 22:08     ` Peter
  2006-03-05  0:02       ` Wes Gray
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter @ 2006-03-04 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:32:42 -0800, Wes Gray wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:09:51PM -0500, Peter wrote:
>> 
>> 1) Try as root. Some programs like cdrecord-ProDVD simply won't work on
>> some devices unless you're root or sudo root.
>> 
>> 2) Make sure /dev/dvd actually points to your device.
> 
> Doing it as root gives me the same error message.  gmplayer /dev/dvd works
> fine to play a DVD, so I think it's OK.  Here is where it points:
> 
> % ls -la /dev/dvd
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Mar  3 14:27 /dev/dvd -> hdd

Well, if Richard's suggestion about USE=dvd-read does not work, make sure
the device is NOT mounted. Some dvd writers access hardware directly and
therefore mounts will mess with that. Otherwise, check the program's
usenet groups and bug reports.

Unfortunately, it's been my experience that for DVD authoring and anything
more than plain copying or burning files (i.e. most things beyond
mkisofs), linux is a lot of work. Best to have a M$ partition and use
whatever software you need for a particular task.


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* Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Re: tcprobe: no support for DVD reading
  2006-03-04 22:08     ` [gentoo-user] " Peter
@ 2006-03-05  0:02       ` Wes Gray
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Wes Gray @ 2006-03-05  0:02 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:08:03PM -0500, Peter wrote:
> Well, if Richard's suggestion about USE=dvd-read does not work, make sure
> the device is NOT mounted. Some dvd writers access hardware directly and
> therefore mounts will mess with that. Otherwise, check the program's
> usenet groups and bug reports.

I got it working by setting the USE variable in package.use.  Odd, it used
to work without needing that.

> Unfortunately, it's been my experience that for DVD authoring and anything
> more than plain copying or burning files (i.e. most things beyond
> mkisofs), linux is a lot of work. Best to have a M$ partition and use
> whatever software you need for a particular task.

dvd::rip has worked well for me in the past for making divx files (via
transcode) from a DVD.  For ripping a DVD9, compressing, and burning to
DVD5 I find that using DVD Shrink under wine works quite well.
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