Thanks Matt,

Sorry for the delay, yesterday was nuts.  I was able to "dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5" as you suggested so I did the whole thing with of=japanese.iso and tried mounting that with Archive Mounter with no success and the with Archive Manager which gave me an error that it was not an iso0660 format.  Lastly I used hd some of it to a file (attached) if anyone wants to see it.

I'm going to have her try to get some details from her brother about how he made it.  I doubt that she will be able to.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:

Are you sure this is actually a DVD, and not something weird like a DVD-sized
SVCD?  All the DVDs I've seen and heard about can be mounted as either iso9660
or udf.  Can you do something like "dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5"
and not get an I/O error?  That command should error out on something like an
SVCD that doesn't have 2048-byte sectors.  If dd'ing the first few M actually
works, then the filesystem on the DVD is probably messed up in some way that
this old player can handle, but other things can't.

If this is a VCD-like thing, then vcdxrip may be able to get the video stream
off the device, and mplayer can play VCDs.

> larry@hammerhead:~$ regionset /dev/sr0
> drive plays discs from region(s):, mask=0xFF
> So I think you are right that yours was not set for any region as was mine

Then it's probably not region problems.

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