Thanks for the replies folks! Derek, this DVD has been tried in 5 players and on 2 computers. The only on that will play it is a 5 year old all region player belonging to the lady's friend somewhere across town. Matt, I do not know what the video encoding is. larry@hammerhead:~$ regionset /dev/sr0 regionset version 0.1 -- reads/sets region code on DVD drives Current Region Code settings: RPC Phase: II type: NONE vendor resets available: 4 user controlled changes resets available: 5 drive plays discs from region(s):, mask=0xFF Would you like to change the region setting of your drive? [y/n]:y Enter the new region number for your drive [1..8]:2 New mask: 0xFFFFFFFD, correct? [y/n]:y Region code set successfully! larry@hammerhead:~$ man mount larry@hammerhead:~$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/dvd/ mount: only root can do that larry@hammerhead:~$ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/dvd/ mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so So I think you are right that yours was not set for any region as was mine and now I have set it back to region 1 (saw no way to UNset 2). On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Dazed_75 > > Helping a Japanese friend trying to play a DVD her brother in Japan made. > > It plays in someone else’s all region DVD player > > So it's a regular DVD with MPEG-2 video on it? > > > UDF-fs: error (sr0): __udf_read_inode: (ino 1989838) failed > > UDF-fs: Failed to read VAT inode from the last recorded > > block (1989838), retrying > > This probably doesn't have a UDF filesystem on it. Try mounting it with -t > iso9660 . You may have to turn your automounter off temporarily. Region > codes may be another factor. If you have regionset installed, run > "regionset > /dev/scd0" with a DVD in the drive, see what that tells you. Mine says > "drive > plays discs from region(s):, mask=0xFF" which makes me think it's > region-free, > but I don't know for sure since all I have are region 1 DVDs. > > > IN=virbr0 OUT=MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:da:48:0c:9b:27:c4:08:00 > > DF PROTO=2 > > > > Does anyone know if that DF PROTO means region 2 which includes Japan? > > That's a networking message, as the network interface name virbr0 and the > MAC > and the IP address should've told you. PROTO 2 is IGMP, which is really > not > relevant to your DVD problem. You may want to take your firewall and tell > it > to be less verbose. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, always use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy) and not To: or CC:. Remove all addresses from the message body before sending a Forwarded message. This can prevent spy programs capturing addresses from the recipient list and message body.