[vdr] Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: DVD on USB 2

[Szymon Polom <polom@convergence.de>]

Hi,
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:03:40PM +0200, Tilo Renkl (tilo@diredare.de) wrote:

> Any hints how to solve this problem ??

Not really. In your position I would ask the maintainer of the uniform cd
driver if it supposed to work (Jens Axboe, don't know the E-Mail address).

Maybe a bug commit would help too.

> > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 01:42:16PM +0200, Tilo Renkl 
> > (tilo@diredare.de) wrote:
> > 
> > > The device to handle this DVD is /dev/sr0, and thats afaik 
> > a SCSI device.
> > > I can mount CDs and even DVDs and I can read and copy 
> > anything on it.
> > > The kernel modules are afaik native SCSI support, SCSI 
> > CD-support and
> > > USB Mass-storage support.
> > 
> > > It seems to me that native access to DVD is no problem, but 
> > libdvdcss and
> > > libdvdread want to access the DVD in a specific "hardware" way.
> > > I tried to find any other device that works, but I was not 
> > sucessfull :-((
> > 
> > They are just using the uniform kernel cd driver (as other 
> > applications).
> > 
> > Maybe the DVD ioctls are missing in the USB abstraction level 
> > and the SCSI
> > cd and the uniform cd drviver are not able to call them.

Bye... Szymon.
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