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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2007 01:34:17 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Message-ID:  <20071209093417.GA4442@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <475B5710.1040403@math.arizona.edu>
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 07:46:40PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:18:25PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> >  
> >>Gary Kline wrote:
> >>    
> >>>	Folks,
> >>>
> >>>	IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto
> >>>	on  my bsd virtual site.   Make this domain more useful.
> >>>	The help from this group has been outstanding, but getting things
> >>>	CD and DVD actually working has been a study in persseverancce.
> >>>
> >>>	That said,  first,if there is a website for total dweebs, please
> >>>	post it; or send it privately.  I just bought some "Memorex 
> >>>	DVD+RW" ; I want to record a 117 minute commercial DVD.
> >>>	On the back on the DVDs is says these are only good for 60 minutes
> >>>	in great qualty; it is good up to 120 minutes, and so on.
> >>>	Nutshell: how good will k3b and my Pioneer burner do on dubbing
> >>>	this professioally recorded disc?  Also, Does thw "RW" mean tthat 
> >>>	I can re-tape over this with another edu DVD?
> >>>
> >>>	gary
> >>>
> >>>	PS:  I much prefer analogue cassettes; I've been taping stuff
> >>>	     since I taped "American Bandstand" off the TV :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>I wrote K3b how to 
> >>http://www.bsd-srbija.org/dokumentacija/doku.php/rezanje_cd_i_dvd_diskova_pomo%C4%87u_k3b
> >>but you will need little bit of Serbian language to read it.
> >>    
> >
> >
> >	Actually, my best friend for > 30 years comes from [ what was ]
> >	Yugoslavia; so he could surely help me with the translation.
> >
> >	I think I have the k3b stuff actually workinng.  As of late FFriday
> >	night, k3b ran thru all of its tests.    That wasn't my question.
> >	I want to know
> >	more about what DVD blanks are good,better,best, and whether it is 
> >	worth "wasting" a blank DVD in trying to copy a DVD that I borrowed
> >	from the library.   
> >
> >	I've googled arouund, tryiiing to get some  kind of specs that an
> >	EE can understand ... even if he kknows nothing about figital
> >	video.   
> >
> >  
> I think that duplicating DVDs works like a charm on FreeBSD but I think 
> there is a better software in ports for that of K3b which is
> kind a all in one generic GUI application. This is also a useful link   
> http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html if you are trying to 
> understand DVD business.  There are definitely people on this mailing 
> list or on OpenBSD mailing list (I do not remember any more as I am on 
> both mailing lists) who have fantastic knowledge of DVD writable medias,
> proprietary Video Formats and various issues that come with that including
> the issues of regional coding and by that I do not mean just USA vs 
> Europe or Asia. Even inside of U. S. where I have being g living for the 
> past 12 years there are many different regional formats. I am clueless 
> about it.
> 

	Hm.  There is a new protocol, DVD-ROM (or perhaps it was
	DVD-CDROM); so if there are even *more*, I'd be spinning my wheel s,
	trying to figure this stuff out in any depth.   

> As a mathematician I  am probably much less capable of understanding DVD 
> technical issues than you.
> 

	Isn't it more a matter of personal interest and time?  I love math
	--and several other fields as well--but given the limitations we
	all have, learning sufficiently well (not to mention
	keeping-current:-), should give everyone pause.  --Then there is
	the matter of living Life, and blah-blah-blah.  Re the DVD stuff,
	I'd be happy to know some of the boundary conditions.  And more
	practice and testing than theory.


> To be perfectly  honest  as a professional mathematician I am very 
> concern with the status of TeX port and the fact that two years after
> teTeX was abolished by TeX community in favor of TeXLive there are no 
> even indication that the TeXLive will be ported to FreeBSD. Even in the 
> most crude form (4 packages) as it is done in OpenBSD would be better 
> than noting. Of course the Debian way (30 or so packages) would be my 
> preferable way as TeXLive is developing really rapidly in some areas.  
> My knowledge of porting is unfortunately inadequate to be able to help 
> with such a major project.
> 

	teTeX is dead?   After I met Don Knuth I really got into his
	stuff.  But then, as mentioned above,  LIFE hit me over the head, &c.
	FWIW, Someone friom the OOo list posted a math site a couple days
	ago. The site deals with some of the things that may interest you.
	I'll find it--this one I moused and clicked nd snagged.  

	Or then again, if DEbian has the new TeX packages, our FBSD 
	Linux support would do.   ... .

	ciao,

	gary


> 
> Cheers,
> Predrag
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >	thanks for your email; it was one of the postings that helped me
> >	get atapicam stuff *working*
> >
> >	:-)
> >
> >	gary
> >
> >
> >  
> >>Actually probably you could follow article even if you do not speak 
> >>Serbian as the language is generic and there are only three important 
> >>steps you need to do.
> >>
> >>Step 1 Editing your /boot/loader.conf file with
> >>
> >>atapicam_load="YES"
> >>hw.ata.ata_dma="1"
> >>hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"
> >>
> >>since FreeBSD is using atapicam device to write DVD
> >>
> >>
> >>Step 2 Edit your /etc/devfs.conf with various permission. Most of those 
> >>are needed for a work station anyway
> >>
> >>perm      /dev/acd0   0666
> >>perm      /dev/cd0    0666
> >>
> >># Commonly used by many ports
> >>  
> >>link  cd0 cdrom
> >>link  cd0  dvd
> >>link  cd0  rdvd
> >>
> >>link  acd0 cdrom
> >>link  acd0 dvd
> >>link  acd0 rdvd
> >>
> >># Misc other devices
> >>
> >>perm    cdrom   0666
> >>perm    dvd     0666
> >>perm    rdvd    0666
> >>perm    xpt0    0666
> >>perm    pass0   0666
> >>
> >>
> >>Step 3 Edit your /etc/fstab file if you want to use K3b as a normal user 
> >>since the disk has to be mounted on the mount point which belong to you
> >>
> >>
> >>[pedja@ /usr/home/Pedja]$ more /etc/fstab
> >>#These are my options
> >>/dev/cd0     /usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660   rw, noauto      0       0
> >>/dev/acd0    /usr/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660   rw, noauto      0       0
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>You do not need HAL for things to work but is not going to heart.
> >>
> >>
> >>Also read
> >>
> >>make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b
> >>
> >>Best,
> >>Predrag
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >  
> 

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