DVD Burning and Viewing

[John Myshrall]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:00:44 -0500
Anton Markov <anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> Try using:
> 
> cdrecord -scanbus
> 
> and post the output.  It should detect your writer and tell you the
> bus it is on.
> 
> Also, you have to use the SCSI emulation for it by passing the
> following to the
> kernel (do this before the scanbus) where (x) is the IDE bus position
> of the drive:
> 
> hd(x)=ide-scsi
> 
> Try using XCDRoast as the burning tool.  As far as burning DVD movies 
> and stuff,
> I think you have to create an image of the video first using some 
> special tools
> (similar to those used for SVCDs, and then burn them.  I don't think 
> XCDRoast
> cares about what you burn and what you burn it to, as long as you have
> a valid
> disk image to burn.
> 
> Tell us what you find.


Here is the output.   

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003
J\x{00F6}rg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
	0,0,0	  0) 'SONY    ' 'DVD RW DW-U14A  ' '1.0d' Removable CD-ROM
	0,1,0	  1) 'SONY    ' 'DVD-ROM DDU1612 ' 'DYS3' Removable CD-ROM
	0,2,0	  2) *
	0,3,0	  3) *
	0,4,0	  4) *
	0,5,0	  5) *
	0,6,0	  6) *
	0,7,0	  7) *

I have been researching the ogle and xine sights and have yet to figure
out the playing yet.

Thanks for you help.

John 
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