DVD Drives

Region Encoding:

lsusb shows that the USB interface is from:

Initio Corportaion.

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dmesg info:

usb 2-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd

[81821.145311] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=13fd, idProduct=3940

[81821.145315] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

[81821.145316] usb 2-2: Product: INIC-3609

[81821.145318] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Initio

[81821.145319] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 30303030303030303030303030303030

[81821.146278] usb-storage 2-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected

[81821.147597] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0

[81822.151366] scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA BD-MLT UJ260AF 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0

[81822.159801] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

[81822.160361] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

[81822.160513] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5

[82711.702237] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr0]

[82711.702240] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE

taking the drive out it shows that it's model UJ-260AF from panasonic ..was called matshita at some point in time.

using regionset program got the firmware regional info:

[root@ekShoonya ~]$ regionset /dev/cdrom

Current drive parameters for /dev/cdrom:

RPC Type: Phase II (Hardware)

RPC Status: no region code set (bitmask=0xFF)

Vendor may reset the RPC 4 times

User is allowed change the region setting 5 times

Would you like to change the region setting for this drive? [y/n]: n

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This is BAD. need RPC Type: Phase I (software).

looking on rpc1.org for firmware upgrade:

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&p=234852

it has new firmware for Matshita BD-MLT UJ260AF 1.01_01 NEC OEM released 30/10/2012. downloaed it from smartupdate.jp.

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using regionset - I set the region to 1...deleted ~/.dvdcss directory... and then tried

mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /dev/cdrom ... still same error about:

libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB

One of the forums says that it can be an enclosure issue:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9386

Some USB enclosures incorrectly report an enclosed enclosed drive as SCSI 2 (CDROM only). The work around makes the kernel pass along DVD commands any way. Hopefully, this won't do anything destructive if accidentally sent to a real CDROM drive.

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One forum recommends that some software ignore the drive's firmware RPC settings and read the DVDs. AnyDVD on windows does this.

this forum mentions that K9Copy on linux is equivalent of AnyDVD.

http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3765

installed K9Copy from the repo - but no luck.

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next steps -

if it's an enclosure issue - compile the cdrom module as suggested above...then try it.

if that fails then double check that we have ok firware from rpc1.org and flash the drive w/ a windows machine.