DVD ioctls error message

[Gildas Bazin]

On Thursday 06 December 2001 19:02, Patrick Dugal wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> Thanks for responding with something interesting.  I was able to read files
> from the DVD but vlc failed to start up.  
> 
> From their support web site:
> http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/releasenotes_ws3.html
> 
> Support available for DVD-ROM
> - You can read data from DVD-ROM discs in a default configuration. 
> 
> Experimental support available for multisession CD-ROMs
> -You can read multisession CD-ROM discs using the raw access mode. Use the
> Configuration Editor (Settings > Configuration Editor) to set your virtual
> DVD/CD-ROM drive to use this mode. 
> 
> Does this mean that direct access is allowed?  Is there a simple .c program
> that I can run to check?  Can someone send it to me?
> 

I found out that vmware workstation doesn't support playing DVD movies (look 
at http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws30_disks3.html#1008260).
I guess it's because they don't support IOCTLs for DVD drives and vlc needs 
to use them in order to decrypt DVDs.

So I guess your only chance would be to use non-encrypted DVDs (I think there 
is a list of unencrypted DVDs available on the market on videlan web site)

--
Gildas