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<TITLE>CD, DVD, VCD - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="drives">4.1 CD/DVD drives</A></H2>
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<P>Linux documentation excerpt:</P>
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<P>Modern CD-ROM drives can attain very high head speeds, yet some CD-ROM drives
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are capable of running at reduced speeds. There are several reasons that might
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make you consider changing the speed of a CD-ROM drive:</P>
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<LI>There have been reports of read errors at these high speeds, especially
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with badly pressed CD-ROMs. Reducing the speed can prevent data loss under
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these circumstances.</LI>
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<LI>Many CD-ROM drives are annoyingly loud, a lower speed may reduce the
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noise.</LI>
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<P>You can reduce the drive speed with hdparm or a program called setcd.
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It works like this:</P>
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<P> <CODE>hdparm -E [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P>
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<P> <CODE>setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device]</CODE></P>
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<P>You can also try</P>
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<P> <CODE>echo current_speed:4 > /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P>
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<P>but you will need root privileges. The following command may also help:</P>
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2002-08-23 10:50:19 +00:00
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<P> <CODE>echo file_readahead:2000000 > /proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE></P>
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<P>This sets prefetched file reading to 2MB, which helps with scratched CD-ROMs.
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It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with hdparm:</P>
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<P> <CODE>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)</CODE></P>
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<P>This enables DMA access, read-ahead, and IRQ unmasking (read the hdparm man
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page for a detailed explanation).</P>
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<P>Please refer to "<CODE>/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings</CODE>" for
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fine-tuning your CD-ROM.</P>
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2002-10-19 13:29:25 +00:00
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<P>FreeBSD:</P>
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<P> Speed: <CODE>cdcontrol [-f device] speed [speed]</CODE></P>
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<P> DMA: <CODE>sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1</CODE></P>
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<H2><A NAME="dvd">4.2 DVD playback</A></H2>
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<P>For the complete list of available options, please read the man page.</P>
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<H4>New-style DVD support (mpdvdkit2)</H4>
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2002-10-20 12:20:39 +00:00
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<P>MPlayer uses <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and <CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> for
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DVD decryption and playback. These two libraries are contained in the
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<CODE>libmpdvdkit2/</CODE> subdirectory of the MPlayer source tree, you
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do not have to install them separately. We opted for this solution because
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we had to fix a libdvdread bug, and apply a patch which adds <B>cracked CSS
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keys caching support</B> to libdvdcss. This results in a large speed increase
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because the keys do not have to be cracked every time before playing.</P>
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<P>MPlayer can also use system-wide <CODE>libdvdread</CODE> and
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<CODE>libdvdcss</CODE> libraries, but this solution is <B>not</B> recommended,
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as it can result in bugs, library incompatibilities, and slower speed.</P>
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<H4>DVD Navigation support (dvdnav)</H4>
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<P>Support for DVD navigation via <CODE>dvdnav</CODE> was being worked on, but
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it was never finished properly and is therefore not recommended.</P>
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<H4>Old-style DVD support - OPTIONAL</H4>
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<P>Useful if you want to play encoded VOBs from <B>hard disk</B>. Compile and
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install <B>libcss</B> 0.0.1 (not newer) for this (If MPlayer fails to
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detect it, use the <CODE>-csslib /path/to/libcss.so</CODE> option). You need
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to be root or use a suid root binary to use it.</P>
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<H4>DVD structure</H4>
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<P>DVD disks use all 2048 b/s sectors with ecc/crc. They usually have an UDF
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filesystem on a single track, containing various files (small .IFO and .BUK
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files and big (1GB) .VOB files). They are real files and can be copied/played
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from a mounted file system of an unencrypted DVD.</P>
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<P>The .IFO files contain the movie navigation informations (chapter/title/angle
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map, language table, etc) and is needed to read and interpret the .VOB content
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(movie). The .BUK files are backups of them. They use <B>sectors</B> everywhere,
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so you need to use raw addressing of sectors of the disc to implement DVD
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navigation. It's also needed to decrypt the content.</P>
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<P>The whole old-style DVD support with libcss needs therefore a mounted DVD
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filesystem and a raw sector-based access to the device. Unfortunately you must
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be root (under Linux) to get the sector address of a file. You got two choices:</P>
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<UL>
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<LI>Force the user to be root or use a suid root mplayer binary like
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fibmap_mplayer which does the dvd access for the old-style DVD playback
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over libcss.</LI>
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<LI>Don't use the kernel's filesystem driver at all and re-implement it in
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userspace. libdvdread 0.9.x and libmpdvdkit does this (New-style DVD
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support). The kernel udf filesystem drivers isn't needed as they already
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have their own, built-in udf fs driver. Also the dvd, doesn't needs to be
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mounted as only the raw sector-based access is used.</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>Sometimes /dev/dvd can't be read by users, so the libdvdread authors
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implemented an emulation layer which transfers sector addresses to
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filenames+offsets, to emulate raw access on the top of a mounted filesystem
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or even on a hard disk.</P>
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<P>libdvdread even accepts the mountpoint instead of the device name for raw
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access and checks in <CODE>/proc/mounts</CODE> to get the device name. It was
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developed for Solaris, where device names are dynamically allocated.</P>
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<P>The default DVD device is <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>. If your setup differs,
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make a symlink, or specify the correct device on the command line with the
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<CODE>-dvd-device</CODE> option.</P>
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<H4>DVD authentication</H4>
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<P>The authentication and decryption method of the new-style DVD support is done
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using a patched libdvdcss (see above). The method can be specified over the
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environment variable <CODE>DVDCSS_METHOD</CODE> which can be set to
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<CODE>key</CODE>, <CODE>disk</CODE> or <CODE>title</CODE>.</P>
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<P>If nothing is specified it tries the following methods
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(default: key, title request):</P>
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<OL>
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<LI><B>bus key:</B> This key is negotiated during authentication (a long mix
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of ioctls and various key exchanges, crypto stuff) and is used to encrypt
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the title and disk keys before sending them over the unprotected bus
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(to prevent eavesdropping). The bus key is needed to get and predecrypt the
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crypted disk key.
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<LI><B>cached key:</B> MPlayer looks for eventually already cracked
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title keys which are stored in the <CODE>~/.mplayer/DVDKeys</CODE> directory
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(fast ;).</LI>
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<LI><B>key:</B> If no cached key is available, MPlayer tries to
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decrypt the disk key with a set of included player keys.
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<LI><B>disk:</B> If the key method fails (e.g. no included player keys),
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MPlayer will crack the disk key using a brute force algorithm.
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This process is CPU intensive and requires 64 MB of memory (16M 32bit
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entries hash table) to store temporary data. This method should always
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work (slow).</LI>
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<LI><B>title request:</B>With the disk key MPlayer requests the crypted title
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keys, which are inside <I>hidden sectors</I> using <CODE>ioctl()</CODE>.
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The region protection of RPC-2 drives is performed in this step and may
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fail on such drives. If it succeeds, the title keys will be decrypted with
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the bus and disk key.
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<LI><B>title:</B> This method is used if the title request failed and does
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not rely on any key exchange with the DVD drive. It uses a crypto attack to
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guess the title key directly (by finding a repeating pattern in the
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decrypted VOB content and guessing that that the plain text for first
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encrypted bytes are a continuation of that pattern).
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The method is also known as "known plaintext attack" or "DeCSSPlus".
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In rare cases this may fail because there is not enough encrypted data on
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the disk to perform a statistical attack or because the key changes in the
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middle of a title. On the other hand it is the only way to decrypt a DVD
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stored on a hard disk or a DVD with the wrong region on an RPC2 drive
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(slow).</LI>
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</OL>
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<P>RPC-1 DVD drives only protect region settings over software DVD players.
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RPC-2 drives have a hardware protection that allows 5 changes only. It might
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be needed/recommended to upgrade the firmware to RPC-1 if you have a RPC-2 DVD
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drive. Firmware upgrades can be found
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<A HREF="http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/">here</A>. If there is
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no firmware upgrade available for your device, use the
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_20000215.tar.gz">regionset
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tool</A> to set the region code of your DVD-drive (under Linux).
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<B>Warning:</B> You can only set the region 5 times.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="vcd">4.3 VCD playback</A></H2>
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<P>For the complete list of available options, please read the man page.
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The Syntax for a standard Video CD (VCD) is as followed:
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<CODE>mplayer -vcd <track> [-cdrom-device <device>]</CODE>.<BR>
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Example: <CODE>mplayer -vcd 2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc</CODE></P>
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<H4>VCD structure</H4>
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<P>VCD disks consists of 2 or more track:</P>
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<UL>
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<LI>The first track is a few MB 2048 bytes/sector data track, with an iso9660
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filesystem, usualy containing win32 VCD player programs and maybe other infos
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(jpegs, text, etc).</LI>
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<LI>The second and other tracks are raw 2324 bytes/sector mpeg tracks, without
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any filesystem but raw mpeg ps data, one packet per sector. they contain the
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movie(s)... The tracks <B>can't be mounted</B>! It is similar to audio
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tracks (e.g. You never mounted an audio cd to play it, or did you? No).
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As most movies are inside track too, you should try <CODE>-vcd 2</CODE>
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first.</LI>
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<LI>There exist VCD disks without the first track too (single track and no
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filesystems at all). They are still playable, but can't be mounted.</LI>
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<P>About .DAT files:</P>
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<P>The ~600 MB file visible on the first track of the mounted vcd isn't a real
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track! It's a so called iso gateway, created to allow Windows to handle such
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tracks (Windows doesn't allow raw device access to applications at all).
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Under linux, you cannot copy or play such files (they contain garbage).
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Under Windows it is possible as its iso9660 driver emulates the raw reading of
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tracks in this file.
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To play a .DAT file you need a kernel driver which can be found on a powerdvd
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Linux version. It is a modified iso9660 fs driver, which is able to emulate the
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raw tracks through this shadow .DAT file. If you mount the disc using their
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driver, you can copy and even play .DAT files with mplayer. But it <B>won't
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work</B> with the standard iso9660 driver of the kernel! It is recommended to
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use the <CODE>-vcd</CODE> option instead.</P>
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<P>The default VCD device is <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE>. If your setup differs,
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make a symlink, or specify the correct device on the command line with the
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<CODE>-cdrom-device</CODE> option.</P>
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