HELP: i cant copy from CD

XavierP · 12-11-2002, 02:28 PM

I had a similar problem - I couldn't play a (legal) DVD film. I download Ogle and now I can. Could it simply be that Linux is adhering to the copy protection? Try loading a different player.

zLinuxz · 12-11-2002, 03:06 PM

yeah, Ogle is pretty nice, isn't it?

I can't run Ogle on this computer because I haven't been able to upgrade my gblic library to 2.3+...so I'm using Mplayer, which has no gui interface...which I guess can make you look like a geek, hehee.

Cool,

bkxsammy · 12-11-2002, 04:30 PM

oh man... ok...its a VCD that i burned when i was in windows . long time ago. but yeah...i guess its marked as read only. could that be it??/ the fact that its read only? that is the only thing is see at the moment

bkxsammy · 12-11-2002, 04:34 PM

ok i tried to copy a regular .avi file off the cdrom and it works...what gives/?

MasterC · 12-11-2002, 05:52 PM

Did you give the loopback a try yet? Might be the disc itself if you can copy files from other discs to the drive no problem.

Cool

Aussie · 12-11-2002, 08:30 PM

Try making an iso image from the CD and check it with md5sum.
1) Make the iso

Code:

cat /dev/cdrom > myimage.iso

2) md5sum the iso

Code:

md5sum myimage.iso > test.md5

3) check the iso against the CD

Code:

cat /dev/cdrom | md5sum >> test.md5

Then you can either mount the iso or burn a new copy.