[vlc] Re: RPC2 drives and MacOS X

Robert Nicholson robert at elastica.com
Thu Oct 31 13:06:08 CET 2002


That's done via System Preferences->CDs and DVDs when insert a DVD set 
to Ignore


On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 06:24  PM, Serge Cohen wrote:

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> I don't have a DVD here (work), I'll try tonight and send you both 
> logs.
>
> I don't know the way to avoid automatic launching of Apple's player 
> under X.2, but I'll try to hide it in a strange place of the HD 
> (otherwise I'll just gnutar it).
>
> I'll also try to find the equivalent of strace, I remember having used 
> once a su utility to log devices access.
>
> Serge.
>
> Le jeudi 31 octobre 2002, à 12:07 , Samuel Hocevar a écrit :
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>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002, Serge Cohen wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is the same what so ever I'm using as method (disc, title
>>> and ... -don't remember the name now-).
>>
>>    That would be "key". I'd be interested in a verbose output with the
>> title method, maybe after a cold reboot and absolutely minimal disc
>> manipulation (I heard there was a way to disable the automatic launch
>> of Apple's player in X.2).
>>
>>> About the strace and truss utility, what are they performing?
>>
>>    They trace system calls and kernel answers. Under Linux for 
>> instance,
>> running "strace dd if=/dev/cdrom skip=10000000" (an attempt to read 
>> far
>> beyond the end of the device) outputs, amongst a lot of other lines:
>>
>> open("/dev/cdrom", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
>> _llseek(0, 5120000000, [5120000000], SEEK_CUR) = 0
>> read(0, 0x8051000, 512)                 = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
>>
>>    It might give hints on what the kernel says, and after which dvdcss
>> operation it starts really complaining.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Sam.
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