Helping a Japanese Ftiend

[Matt Graham]

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.

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