Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Benjamen R. Meyer <bm_witness@(protected):

> I've run into this problem a number of times on my Linux systems. In a
> couple of cases what where essentially scratched disks played on both
> my HT DVD player as well as Windows but would not play in xine.
>
> I talked with the xine guys and they said (at the time maybe 3-4 years
> ago) that their error recovery wasn't nearly as good as they wanted it
> to be. At that time xine was the best around.
>
> A READ10 issue is potentially a firmware issue in the drive since it's
> the drive's processor formatting up data to send over the cable. My
> suggestion would be try it on every system you have there. Some drives
> read around problems better or do better correction at the drive.
> Maybe you can find a firmware upgrade for the specific drive. Not
> specific to these READ10 errors but some folks using 1394 peripherals
> have improved performance in this sort of situation.

It would be nice to have something similar to cdparanoia for (video) dvds...

Best regards

Peter K
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