Linux - SoftwareThis forum is for Software issues.
Having a problem installing a new program? Want to know which application is best for the job? Post your question in this forum.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
The disk says "Disney DVD", I do not have a blue ray player and it played on my DVD player as well as my computer.
Whether a person will like the movie depends on an individual's taste. I am ambivalent about trying to attach a visual image to music which is basically abstract. For Respighi's ''Pines of Rome'' their visual was flying whales.
I believe that it is because the disk is encrypted and a normal DVD driver cannot evaluate its size correctly. All prerecorded commercial DVDs are encrypted to prevent or at least hinder copying.
Last edited by stress_junkie; 04-22-2011 at 03:57 PM.
The disk says "Disney DVD", I do not have a blue ray player and it played on my DVD player as well as my computer.
ehmmm... I'm stumped :/ - it is a dvd (you played it on a "normal" player) and it came out this big...
Though I did notice something pretty similar when making a backup of a folder of a few Mb, where the system reports copying over ten times that much...
Quote:
Whether a person will like the movie depends on an individual's taste. I am ambivalent about trying to attach a visual image to music which is basically abstract. For Respighi's ''Pines of Rome'' their visual was flying whales.
Hmpf...disney is full of that...at least it'll (hopfully) keep the kids quiet - for a while...
Every other DVD I have ever received gave the correct size when I used "properties" on my computer. Has Disney found a new way to confuse copiers? Aside from all the junk, the movie only lasts an hour and a quarter.
Because I find this intriguing, I have played with it. I now believe that it really is 50.1GB. There seem to be about eight copies of the movie on the disk about 4329 MB each as well as advertisements, etc. The only hypothesis that I can come up with is that they took their bluray disk and somehow reprogrammed it to work as a DVD.
I wonder if the UDF filesystem can have links. Perhaps there are multiple directory entries to the same file.
Another possibility is sparse files. A file could be 50GB in reported size but only a couple GB in actual size.
If the default --sparse=auto option of cp doesn't catch that it is sparce, long sequences of zero bytes will be
read in the gaps.
It would be possible to damage the blu ray part and leave the dvd image intact. But since Netflix doesn't seem to offer a Blu ray version that makes the whole deal easier.
Could be a grey market product and some faulty ways used to copy a bluray to the dvd.
Could be a factory defect, like you said they simply took data and crunched it to the dvd without checking. I doubt the industry is paying for top level testing. They only care if some kid can watch it.
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.
It simply can not be 50G so... fuagetboutit
