DVD ioctls error message

[Patrick Dugal]

Hi Gildas,

So it turns out that we got rid of XP altogether and WMware as well.  We are
running Linux 7.1 straight-up now.  We managed to play "The Matrix" with vlc
and ogle.  They both played the dvd without any problem on the same machine,
without VMWare this time.  I didn't get a chance to enable the raw access
mode, so I guess someone else will need to test it for this list to know the
truth about DVD playback in VMWare.  Thank you for all your help.

Pat

> 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