[mythtv-users] vlc for ISO-files

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:47:04 +1200, you wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:24:58 +0200, you wrote:
>
>>>> What version of MythTV are you running?
>>
>>
>>0.27 (ppa repository)
>>
>>DVD ISO files (e.g.  created with dd) play garbled. Sometimes  looks like
>>Lego bricks ;-)  Playing the DVD itself is fine.
>
>Do NOT use dd to copy DVDs!  If there are any errors reading the DVD,
>you will never know about it.  The proper tool for reading optical
>disks to make images of them is readom ("read optical media").  It
>does the proper error correction for reading DVDs and CDs.  DVDs and
>CDs commonly have errors that are corrected using the extra error
>correction data written to the disk.  Please try recopying some of
>your bad images from the DVD with readom and see if the problems go
>away.
>
>Example of readom command on Mythbuntu (12.04-14.04):
>
>  readom dev=/dev/cdrom f="/mnt/vid3/video/DVD/My DVD.iso"
>
>If you have automounting of DVDs, you may need to unmount the DVD
>before using readom.

And I should have also mentioned that I have only used readom on
region free disks.  I have few region encoded or otherwise protected
DVDs, but I am fairly sure they would need different software to be
ripped correctly.  I rip disks like that on my Windows box, which
still has a working RPC1 DVD reader set to region 0 on its DIP
switches.