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Date:	Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:32:45 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Tobias <kaminsky@...swimmer.de>
Cc:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Option for skipping unreadable blocks on Video DVD

Hi!

> > I think that if they are using the normal block layer accesses on the
> > DVD device, there may be some retries that occur which are likely
> > undesirable in this case since they will just stall playback. If they
> > are using SG_IO to feed raw requests into the drive (which I imagine
> > they need to do for CSS authentication, etc. anyway), then all error
> > handling is passed up to the user application.
> 
> Normal apps like cp are ending because of Input/Output error. 
> I did some researches and 
> dd if=/dev/hdc of=image.iso conv=noerror,sync bs=1M 
> does everything I want for whole Video Dvds. It skips unreadable blocks.
> But I get recorded tv shows from friends and there is the same as with 
> scratched dvds. Now the problem is that there are several .avi files on it. 
> So I cannot use dd. 

dd works with files.


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