Helping a Japanese Ftiend

[Matt Graham]

From: Dazed_75 
> 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 at hammerhead:~$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/dvd/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,

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 at 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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