[MPlayer-advusers] dvd's protected with bad sectors?

[tempn at twmi.rr.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: tempn at twmi.rr.com
Date: Sunday, October 16, 2005 2:12 am
Subject: [MPlayer-advusers] dvd's protected with bad sectors?

> a user came into #mplayer with questions about bad sector dvds
> http://www.hisxpress.com/cross-country-2-dvd.html
> was the dvd he was trying to play
> 
> " I tried mplayer -dumpstream dvd:// on one of those
> "bad-sector protected" DVDs, and it literally ran for
> 12 hours and still didn't get completely done."
> 
> "My standalone DVD player had not problems playing the original DVDs."
> 
> i tried to explain to him the problem was the dvd with bad sectors
> or the dvdrom for not skipping bad sectors... his response
> 
> "Some new DVDs put bad sectors onto the DVD. Standalone
> DVD players use the menu info files so that they skip
> over the bad sectors, but mplayer doesn't."
> 
> maybe there needs to be a faq on protected (non standard, drm
> etc) dvds...
> 

forgot to add, he was asking for a feature for mplayer to read
chapters or menu info to see how to seek around the bad sectors.
he had heard that xine was getting this feature in the future.

-compn