Indexing a soon to be DVD

I am going to backup 20 plus old Zip 100 disks to DVD which contains thousands of small files.
Can I have Spotlight index the not yet burned DVD as the Zip's are dragged to the soon to be burned DVD?
If so is that information created and saved on the DVD, saved on the startup hard drive or can not be done at all.
Obviously what I am after is to insert the DVD in the future and search via Spotlight.
eMac 1.25 USB 2 Superdrive Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 gig RAM

I don't think Spotlight will retain any indexing info on removable media like CDs and DVDs, but it you can certainly search the volume when mounted using Spotlight.
Beavis2084

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My observations ( for people that have indexing and connection issues )

Since cisco takes an awful lot of time doing anything about these problems i decided to investigate the box myself today.
I followed advice from various threads and did some digging aroudn with network traffic snoopers and some other tools.
First ( and this is buried somewhere deep in the documentation ) you can NOT have ANY file or folder name that is longer than 32 characters. This is a limitation of the stupid linux they are running on ! If you have a file with longer name or foldername it may screw up the indexing.
Second : file and path names can only have alphanumerical characters and numbers and spaces in them. DO NOT USE ANY other character. it messes up the indexing I had folders named -= folder 1 =-. they never got indexed. as soon as i removed teh -= and =- the indexing kicked in .... This is again a twonkyvision / loonix problem
The box has tremendous problems with ghost devices on the network. I have on my network at home : 4 pc's running XP ( some pro some home edition ) 2 laptops with Vista. One box with Win7. One Windows home Server. One linksys Skype phone , One Roku soundbridge, one Dlink DNS323 , one ADS network drive , one Simpletech Simplestor , A HP color laserjet , a Hp 6250 , 7650 and some other HP network printer. Thru the wireless link my PDA ( iPaq) and iPhone connect once in a while too. My blu ray player is also hooked up (netflix streaming). And then there are various experimental systems ( i am an electronics engineer and i have built some gadgets that are network connected that allow me to remotely turn on lights monitor temperature etc. )
Now , the NMH does not detect correctly most of the devices. It keeps on trying to feed information to the printers ... it also tries feeding information to other NAS devices as well as to the Windows Homeserver ... It falsely identifies one of the printers as a dlink ethernet connected dvd player ...
It also has problems with devices that use static ip addresses on the network ( i set up the printers and other NAS devices with hardcoded ip addresses. so no dhcp )
So here is what i did : go to twonky configuration ( port 9000 see tony's article )
Step 1 : Yank out the ethernet cable to ANY OTHER DEVICE except the pc you are working on , your router and the NMH <- this is important
step 2 : Hit the button to erase all the devices it discovered. (reset list)
Step 3 : hit the SAVE button
step 4: UNCHECK the box next to the 'reset list' button
step 5: hit the SAVE button
Now , on the left hand side click on Maintenance
Click on ALL checkboxes under Log level. they should ALL be checked
Hit the Clear Logs button
Hit Save changes
Hit RESTART server. you wil get a file not foound error page. you will see in your browsers titlebar that the url changes to an ip address with some text behind it. remove all that text and key in :9000 and hit return. it will take you back to tonky. ( i don't know how important this step is , but i did not go in throught the device name , i used the ip address from this point on. normally it should not matter but you never know ( i have a suspicion i will explain later )
Write down this IP address. it is usefull to know.
Now since we are back in wonkyvision ( stupid half baked program ) Go back to the maintenance screen.
now hit the rebuild databse button.
You should hear disk activity now.
Hit the Show log button once. the log files should open.
you can refresh this screen by hitting the reload button in your browser.
you should see messages fly by like
21:14:40:317 LOG_SYSTEM:fsmon_add_watch inotify_add_watch (12, /share/media/photos/Moorea May 1998) returns 2045
21:14:40:317 LOG_DB:watch wd=2045 added on /share/media/photos/Moorea May 1998
21:14:40:379 LOG_DB:upnp_folder_watch_add_dir /share/media/photos/Moorea May 1998/New Folder
thnis means it is probin the entire directory structure and adding files and paths.
Let it run for a while. hitting refresh on your browser once in a while. it took a couple of hours on mine ( 76000+ pictures ... ) and a couple of hundred songs + some videos.
once disc activity ceases : go back to twonky port 9000 , go in to maintenance and hit Clear Logs button.
HitSave button
Hit restart server. you will again get an error page. get rid of the rubbish behind the ip address.and key in :9000
go to the clients and security page.
Make sure Automatic discovery is still turned OFF ( if it is on you will see in the logbooks that it attempts several times a second to connecto to anything it can find. Since the detection process is flawed it bombs out. this may overload the poor cpu in the NMH... )
Hit the reset list once more
hit save
Now turn automatic discovery on and hit Save.
go back to maintenacne and hit restart server. again on the error page : erase the garbage after the ip address and go back to port 9000.
if you now go back to client/sharing page you should see 2 possibly 3 device. one is your router , one is the pc you are working on, and the last one is the same ip address as you see in the browser. ( the ipaddress you are using to talk to the nmh )
make sure all the checkboxes before these devices are checked. and hit the save button once more.
at this point i unchecekd the automatic discovery and hit save once more. i go back to maintenance and hit restart server for the last time.
At this point the nmh restarted twonky and immediately there was a ton of disc activity. i opened the normal nmh user interface and lo and behold : the green spinning arrow started to move and progress was going forward. it increased 1% roughly ever 10 seconds or so. when it finally hit 100% everything was there. as it should be.
Now. speculation on my part
- this thing has trouble with long file names and non alphanumerical characters.
- this thing has trouble with device it incorrectly identiefies or cannot identify. this screws up wonkymedia.
- the communication between the process on the NMH (that serves the flash user interface running on your browser ) and winkymedia is going through a network port itself. There are problems. thye do not do inter process communication but go via network messages... ( this is kind of dumb as it loads the network... )
proof :
21:01:03:625 filescanner thread started
21:01:03:628 LOG_SSDPSDP_notify_packet ### SSDP sending:
NOTIFY * HTTP/1.1
HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900
CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=99999
LOCATION: http://192.168.1.66:9000/DeviceDescription.xml
NT: urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1
NTS: ssdp:alive
SERVER: Linux/2.x.x, UPnP/1.0, pvConnect UPnP SDK/1.0
the filescanner sends messages through network port 1900 to the NMH. Since the filescanner is running on the NMH ... i also have no clue what 239:255:255:250 at 190 is ...
i also see sometimes the following messages fly by
21:01:03:894 [Error] - LOG_HTTP:HTTP_get_header Cannot receive header, clientSocket=13, nBytesReceived=0
21:01:03:894 LOG_HTTP:HTTP_send_receive received no header in HTTP_send_receive, propably client closed socket, URL=http://192.168.1.66:9000/
my suspicion is that , since the various processes running on the NMH ( the indexer , the UI server and all the twonky processes) all intercommunicate through the network port , this is a problem. if the network settings get corrupted ( because false identification , notwork overload or whatever ) the thing jams up.
by cleaning out all the false identieis , letting it identify itself ( important for its own process communication ) and a pc , and then turning off the detection .this solves that problem.
limiting the filesstem to 'clean 32 char max' names solves another problem.
I also see a lot of keep-alive message fly by on the netowrk ( several a second. )
i eventually plugged in my other computers and the roku , let it autodetect for a while and turned this feature back off. Then i plugged in all other devices the NMH has no business with.
So far it still works fine.
I still do see a ton of messages fly by where the NMH is probing the network on existing devices. tey come back with 'device already validated
21:01:04:140 LOG_CLIENT_DB:The entry found in known clients list is already validated (ip=192.168.1.76)
21:01:04:140 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.76, mac=
21:01:04:140 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.76)
21:01:04:141 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Ignoring client with fixed flag = TRUE (ip=192.168.1.76)
( .76 is the pc i am working on right now. )
i don't know why they keep probing. i am not streaming anything and auto detect is turned off ..
anyway i will keep you guys posted on how this evolves.
One thing is for sure. this is another half baked ' broken source' based system.

further observations :
22:24:31:868 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.66, mac=
22:24:31:868 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:31:869 LOG_CLIENT_DB:HHetting client adaptation to 49 (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:36:878 LOG_CLIENT_DB:The entry found in known clients list is already validated (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:36:878 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.66, mac=
22:24:36:878 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:36:879 LOG_CLIENT_DB:HHetting client adaptation to 49 (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:37:926 LOG_CLIENT_DB:The entry found in known clients list is already validated (ip=192.168.1.76)
22:24:37:926 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.76, mac=
22:24:37:926 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.76)
22:24:37:927 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Ignoring client with fixed flag = TRUE (ip=192.168.1.76)
22:2
thisnthing keeps on probing itself ... i wonder why. (.66 is the NMH .76 is my pc ... ) it is also strange it cannot retrieve its own mac address....
Oh , you can turn off the logging features again when done. it only takes time and diskspace on the NMH
And before i get flamed : the comments i make about 'broken source' : i have no gripe with linux. I have a problem with companies that grab a bunch of stuff that is free ,slap it together, sell it for a lot of money and give no support to the people that bought it. They want all the money for no effort .. they turn open source into broken source ...

DVD-ROM and Spotlight

I don't think this is a iDVD problem, but thought this forum is still the best place to look for some help.
Just finished an iDVD project. I've got a slideshow built in Photo-to-Movie and iMovieHD, and am using iDVD '08 to encode & burn, along with two other short movies. The kick is that I'm adding about 1000 jpegs or so to the DVD-ROM portion. The finished disk plays fine on my DVD player and PS3, and even a Dell laptop, but when put back into the mac that burned it the playback is horrible...at least for 5-10 minutes or more. And the culprit seem to be SPOTLIGHT indexing all those jpegs. If I wait 'tilt he drive activity stops (but that is quite awhile) it plays fine, even from the start or main menu. Or if I add the disk to the privacy preference in spotlight, it plays fine too.
So, question 1.....is there anything I can do to the DVD-ROM portion that would either stop the spotlight indexing or make it much much faster? I'm making a bunch of these for other people, and though most aren't Mac users, it is annoying that it doesn't "just work."
And question 2......am I crazy or shouldn't Apple be able to tell that If I launch DVD player that indexing should be paused in any case? Seems like a defect in the DVD player app if you ask me.....it should be able to delay indexing.
Question 3....is there something else I'm missing?
Thanks
jb

I'm wondering if is possible to address the timing of when indexing takes place through preferences.
If so, this might be another option. (not sure if this option is only available for actual hard drive/s or alternate volumes as well).
I'm sure you are also aware of apple's FB thru iDvd's Menu in order to make suggestions for improvements to this software as well. (launch iDvd and from the Top Menu scroll down to "Provide iDvd Feedback".
Try the following if you haven't already (uncheck applications in hope that DVD Player will not undergo indexing automatically as soon as a dvd is inserted). Note: I haven't yet tried this myself so I have no idea if it will actually work or not.
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Issue with table index

Hi All, Hope you are all well.
Strange issue here:
We have a Custom ABAP program that reads from mainly Table EKKO.
On My QAS system the program works 100%, when i do a SQL Trace (ST05) i can see in the execution plan that it is using the correct index on the Date field.
On MY Production system the very same program just runs and runs and eventually times out, in the sql Trace the execution plan shows that the index is not being used thus the long run time.
Here is the Catch: the ABAP people have looked at the program intensely and have found no problems, my QAS system is a copy of Pruduction (Syetem copy). Program runs no problem on QAS but times out on Production.
It seems that on Production the Program is not using the Index to search the table.
Please help
Regards
Andre

>Yes i have checked the table and all indexes are active, i even reactivated the indexes on Production
Ok.
>If i Query the table directly SE16 using the same fields as in the ABAP it returns the results no problem.
Ok.
>The program does have joins onto other tables.
And you checked this via SE16? Don't think so...
>I am going to do a update stat after hours tonight and will see if that helps.
Yep - good idea. I'd bet that your statement will take the index as soon as the statistics for all involved tables have been collected.
>How can i verify that all relationships to other tables are operational.
?? What is that supposed to mean?
Have you ever seen any foreign key constraints in SAP databases?
Would they even make sense there?
NO!
So which "relationships" do you think could be "non-operational" ???
regards,
Lars

Buttons over video is crashing Apple DVD player!

I have 4 menus (tracks) that use buttons over video. The first one plays just fine- the buttons come up after a second & disappear 30 seconds later(then the menu continues into a film). The other 3 menus crash 1-2 seconds before the buttons over video forces the subtitle to become visible. here's what i've done to troubleshoot:
-set a different menu to be first play
-swapped out the m2v/ac3 files to see if that was causing the issue
-moved my menus/tracks to different VTSs (using dvdsp 4)
-shifted the hi-lite markers forward and back to various times
-swapped out the overlay file
All my tracks were created exactly the same- using the same BOV structure (13 buttons in all)... I'm completely baffled. One works fine and the rest don't work at all!!
p.s. i burned the disc and tested it on a regular dvd player.. seems to work fine, but it still crashes on the computer.
PowermacG4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) DVD Studio Pro 4

I figured out the problem so I'll wrap up the thread in case someone else runs into this problem...
I was using dvdSP's ability to "offset" the overlay file in order to make my highlights match up perfectly. For some reason if the offset differs from one overlay to the next in the same subtitle stream, it causes apple dvd player to crash.
example:
(all motion menus were created on one track with BOV & then separated into stories for easy targeting)
subtile(BOV) 1 had an overlay file offset to 0x & -4y & subtitle(BOV)2, my second menu, had an overlay file offset to 3x & -1y.
The first one would play fine, but as soon as apple dvd player detected the next subtitle it would crash. I solved the problem by editing my overlay files in photoshop to compensate for the offsets & leaving the offset in DVDSP untouched. weird... but it works now.

Saving Full Resolution Pictures on a DVD

I am making a DVD and have a question about putting JPG files on the DVD. I made a DVD movie that contains a video and a slideshow movie that I made in iPhoto. I know in iDVD you have the option of saving full resolution pictures on the DVD disk but I am not sure how to do this in DVD Studio Pro. In iDVD there is a simple option you select.
I was going to use iDVD however, I want to have a movie play as soon as the DVD is inserted and then have it go to the main menu and I am not sure if you can do that with iDVD.
There must be a simple way to put the full resolution pictures on the DVD so that one could get them later with a computer. I contemplated just making a separate manual advancing slideshow in DVD Studio Pro but I was not sure if the full size files would be stored or if they are encoded. Also, if one wanted to print off some of the pictures how would they do that?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!

Just click on the disk icon in the outline view window, then go to the general tab of the inpector and toward the bottom of the window check off the DVD-ROM content button and navigate to the folder that contains the folder of the content you want to include.

Refuses to play DVDs

My i5 iMac refuses to play or even accept DVDs. Music CDs and applications disks are fine, but whenever I insert a DVD the drive spins and ejects it automatically.
This happens even if I have DVD Player open. Anyone have any idea why its doing this or any suggestions for a fix?

I found a thread in this forum which describes a similar theme:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19747&messageID=72404
Sometimes such error appears because the drive does not support the medium.
Fact is not every medium is supported by the drives and I believe in the user manual you will find an index of compatible CDs or DVDs
Possibly the drive is defective and can not calibrate lens in the right position.
But this notebook is not very old and I can not imagine the drive is defective
However nothing is impossible.
What you can do is to clean gently the lens and see it this will help.

How to Make a 1 DVD with the content of 2 DVD's?

I have a project that rquires to re-edit the content of 1 DVD to spanish, and also add the original English DVD material into this new DVD, how do I create 1 DVD from my normal Encore project and and the other files from the English Version Disc, which by the way has links, PDF's, and Ineractual Player Auto Start stuff. I'm using Encore CS3, but I just downloaded CS4 on a PC XP. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the reply. I'll respond to your questions...
I have a DVD (movie not ROM) with a 30 minute safety video in English. The DVD has an incredible amount of links that go from one menu to another to another, it's the most confusing and elaborate menu/chapter I've ever seen, well my customer wants me to translate it into Spanish, but now he told me he wants the English AND Spanish version to be in one disc. That's the problem. I can capture the movie. I can translate the script and do the Spanish voice over (just like in the old karate movies) I can create the new menu pages in Spanish and I can create the intricate links, so what do I do with the English version? I can't create the whole English version again, more like I don't want to is there another easier option?
Once I create the new Spanish project using Encore CS4 I don't know how to prompt Encore to attach the English DVD content with all the functionality of menus, chapters and links. I can attach movies, assets, etc. Can I attach anything else? This is what the DVD has inside:
16 objects: 1.45 GB
Video_TS folder
Audio_TS Folder
Average_files folder
Common folder
Good_files folder
Poor_files folder
Win folder
Autorun File
Average HTML document file
Disc.id ID file
Good HTML document file
IG87 Word Document file
Install InterActual file
Poor HTML document file
Poster PDF file
Readme TXT file
> Interactual Player is a file that the past DVD creator used to help the viewer go from Laptop video to web pages, etc. really annoying since you have to download to your hard drive as soon as the DVD starts.
Thanks for your time.
VDOMSTR

Having issues with my DVD drive...

I never used to have problems playing DVDs until recently, and why, I have no idea. I've looked up other threads on the forums and I don't quite see my problem showing up, so here it is.
Every time I insert a DVD, the drive recognizes and registers the disk, but as soon as the DVD player attempts to open, the entire system freezes. I can't eject it; I have to simply restart my computer. I thought this was just a problem with one movie, but I've tried several and I can't play them back any longer. I can't open them with any other program I have either.
I just recently updated my OS, if that helps, but I'm not really sure what's going on. Any help would be fantastic.

Any and every?

Installing Box Set SL on new iMac - cannot boot from DVD...

Hi MacHive
I downloaded Lion today but wanted to install SL on a external USB-Partition because there are 2 PPC games I still like to play every now and then (Homeworld 2 and Alpha Centauri). Then I can boot into SL on my external drive and play the games from there, and having Lion and everything else on the internal HD.
So I started the install (after Disk Utility successfully verified the target disk), it succeeded into copying all the required .pkg into place and at the end of the installer log there are the following messages:
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ***************************** Setting Startup Disk *****************************
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ******         Volume: Mac OS X Install DVD
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ******           Path: /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ******Disk Identifier: disk1s3
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ****** OF Device Path: IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/SATA@1F,2/PRT1@1/PMP@0
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: Bless on Mac OS X Install DVD succeeded
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: Bless of disk1s3 succeeded
At that time, it should restart with the DVD and finish the installation. However, I get the BONG! (good) and the grey apple (good), but then it stops (I never get to the grey moving circle ;-) and soon after, the DVD stops spinning in the drive and nothing progresses anymore.
Retrying to restart normally: same effect. Restarting with "c" key: same effect, restarting with "alt" key - I get my internal HDs and the DVD to choose (but obviously not my target disk), but choosing the DVD results, once more, in the same effect.
The disc has no scratches and I used this disc to install SL successfully some time ago.
Do you know how I can bring SL to the external HD? Is this iMac "too new" to be restarted with the Box Set Mac OS X (supposedly, this is 10.6.0 or so... don't know).
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Fabio
PS: I'm running the following (a 2011 i3 iMac):
Jul 30 23:30:14 blop-imac Install Mac OS X[301]: Hardware: iMac11,2 @ 3.20 GHz (x 4), 4096 MB RAM
Jul 30 23:30:14 blop-imac Install Mac OS X[301]: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Thanks Linc....   In an embarassing lack of concentration I didn't think that I should use the iMac's original disks (10.6.4) and not the box set one (10.6.0 or so). This solved the issue and I could install SL without further troubles. TY again.

Any good alternatives to DVD burning? VCD? S-VHS?

I am totally disillusioned with the time it takes to encode and burn a DVD with my PB. AppleCare acknowledges that it takes 8x - 10x source material for successful burning & if you look on these (amazingly honest & helpful)forums you soon learn that DVD burning on any Mac can be very intimidating and problematic.
I am wondering if there is info readily available for alternatives:
1. VCD burning. I have a ton of small clips and could trim down larger clips to burn onto cds. Are there crazy problems with this as with DVDs?
2. This PB has an S-VHS output & I got a stereo audio cord for output. Will videos created like this be viewable? I suppose it depends on the quality of original material & how do I find this info?
My PB is loaded with every imaginable video and audio pro & standard app. including ToastTitanium7, FinalCutPro, CinemaTools, DVD-StudioPro, QuickTimePro7 etc.
I was praying that DVD burning was a lot simpler than my experiences with Windows based machines. There one needed to have a stand alone powerhouse & Re-Install Windows every couple dozen burns to get rid of all the corruption but not even doing that with a Mac seems to make the process as easy as Advertised. Live & learn.
thanks,
frank

I can only speak from my experience, but I've not found creating and burning DVDs to be at all intimidating and certainly not problematic. Every video DVD I've created has gone smoothly; your mileage may vary, of course. Please note that these forums are for people who are having problems; the many, many people who use their systems with no trouble at all have little incentive to post in a troubleshooting forum.
I notice that you list a number of pro apps including DVD Studio Pro; DVDSP is not intended for consumer use and has a very steep learning curve (although DVDSP 4 has a mode with a simplified interface that's easier, but it still takes some learning). If you want simple, you should be using iDVD; that's Apple's consumer application for creating video DVDs, and the latest versions of iDVD and iMovie (part of iLife '06) make it, in my experience, about as easy as it can get. You can get results with DVD Studio Pro that you cannot with iDVD, but it's going to take work, just as working with FInal Cut Pro will involve more learning time than working with iMovie.
As to creation time for the disk, that's strictly a function of how fast your system can process. Compressing to MPEG-2 (which is the format video DVDs use and which is what takes the majority of the time involved in burning the DVD) takes a lot of processor horsepower, and a single-processor PowerBook isn't going to be as fast as a dual-processor G4 and much less so than a G5. If you're encoding and burning DVDs regularly, you might want to consider moving to a system with higher processing power. To optimize compression time on your PB in the meanwhile, make sure that no other application is running when you're processing the DVD and that your system has plenty of available hard drive space (for the temporary files that will be created).
As to alternatives, that depends on your needs. If you need playback in a DVD player, then burning a DVD will be your best route. Very few players can play a VCD, and as MacNoel said, quality isn't stellar. Whether or not VHS would be an acceptable alternative only you can say.
Regards.
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T43 dvd drive playback issues [SOLVED]

I have recently picked up a t43, and am having some downright bizarre issues with the DVD drive. The t43 has ide drives, but uses a sata-bridge from what I can tell - this essentially means that both IDE drives are seen as scsi. My hard disk is sda and my dvd-rw drive is sr0. The drive seems to work ok for playing music CDs and for playing unencrypted DVDs, but as soon as a DVD with CSS is in the drive, it starts going batshit, and fills dmesg with I/O errors. I've tried Arch, Edgy Eft, and Frugalware -current -- all suffer from the same problem. I have a fully updated Arch install on it now, FWIW. Running kaffeine or mplayer or dvdbackup from the command line fills the console with "failure to crack" messages. I have yet to see how it behaves when burning discs, but cdrecord -scanbus doesn't find a usable drive, so my guess is it may not be pretty.
However, I have only been able to find a single discussion about this issue, and that was on the Gentoo forums. There was no remedy found, though some folks thought it was region related, and others thought it was related to dbus versions. I've swapped the drive out, and the issue remains, so I really don't think it has anything to do with the drive.
Can anyone out there with a t43 or later thinkpad actually view encrypted dvds on it?

As I suspected, it wouldn't burn anything - after a certain amount of dicking around, I discovered that it's expecting to see an sg* device in /dev as a burner which isn't being created by default. I created a symlink from /dev/sr0 to /dev/sg0, and cdrecord can now see the device - for some reason it didn't like being told dev=/dev/sr0 though. As far as I can tell at this point the burner does/will work, or at the very least I've burned a single copy of tpowa's base iso and booted from it fine. I still have no idea wtf is going on with reading - nearly every account I've seen online says that "everything just works" after about 2.6.15 - I've seen about 5 different libata module options, and none of them have changed anything (as far as I can tell) other than I get a nice stream of errors on boot with a couple of them.
This is just a personal observation, but it would be really helpful if people had their blogs and wiki's setup to log dates of entries. Thinkwiki is great, but it's very hard to tell if what you're reading there is from yesterday or two years ago. Also, if you're writing a how-to guide, please don't gloss over what "just works" about something that has been known to not work once it is fixed, and don't say "it all worked OOTB" if you haven't even tested it. A personal gripe there, I guess, but I get a little annoyed when I rely on community reports that "it all just works now," spend $1k+ on a lappy, and discover that it does not, in fact, all "just work" now.
I'll keep banging on this, though, and I'll post more specific error messages later on.

FCPX update soon, but-

If it's true that some updates will cost money Apple will be betraying early FPCX buyers.
Notes from Apple’s Pro briefing on Final Cut Pro X in London
Looks like Apple’s softly softly actions to keep professionals onside are continuing.
Sam Johnson(of AMV LAB) was invited, amongst others, to an Apple briefing on Final Cut Pro X.
Here are is what Sam tweeted after the briefing. Follow him on Twitter where he posts as @aPostEngineer
1. FCP XML in/out is coming via 3rd party soon…no FCP 6/7 support project support coming ever it seems…
2. Ability to buy FCP7 licenses for enterprise deployments coming in the next few weeks…
3. FCPX EDL import/export coming soon…
4. FCPX AJA plugins coming soon for tape capture and layback…capture straight into FCPX bins.
5. XSAN support for FCPX coming in the next few weeks…
6. FCPX Broadcast video output via #Blackmagic &@AJAVideo coming soon…
7. Additional codec support for FCPX via 3rd Parties coming soon…
8. Customizable sequence TC in FCPX for master exports coming soon…
9. Some FCPX updates will be free some will cost…
He went on to answer some questions:
conigs Do they have any kind of timeframe for “soon”? Am I safe in guessing in 2011?
aPostEngineer within a few weeks for some updates i.e. XSAN up to a few months for 3rd party developers to get their heads around the API.
gigarafa what about the rest of the suite? Color, dvd studio etc?
aPostEngineer they have unfortunately reached their EOL and will not be developed any more..
They said that taking FCP7 off the shelf was the most complained thing… (Answering a message from @NMRUK)
Peter Wiggins of Idustrial Revolution was also there, so I imagine we’ll get an update at his fcp.co site soon.

If you are making your living with DVD recorder it's because you already have one. If you need a brand new one, you can buy it from any DVD recorder manufacturer. (Actually, Apple never manufactured DVD recorders).
The only one Apple computer doesn't have DVD recorder today is the Macbook Air. So, there is no reason to speculate about that, but yes, sooner o later DVD will dead, as cassette did, as floppy did, as VHS did.
I make my living on editing. FCPX doesn't changed anything for me. I still work with FCP7 as I did before. I know how to edit in Avid and in Premiere, and now in FPCX.
I am training myself all of the time. That's my biggest investment, to always be learning as much as I can. Instead of waisting hours and hours blaming Apple, I started to learn FPCX with Ripple Training first, and now with Larry Jordan's tutorials.

Qosmio G40: HD-DVD - BluRay drive replacement

Hello,
Due to the latest events and Toshiba agreeing that it's lost the format war, I wonder if it is possible to replace that very-soon-unusable HD DVD drive to something that will be able to read/write upcoming movies WITHOUT loosing the warranty (G40).

Hi there, I have the same problem. I wanted a high-end laptop with a WUXGA screen and was torn between the Qosmio G40-108 and and another notebook. In the end I bought the Qosmio G40-108 because of HDMI 1.3 and the 512Mb nVidia graphics. Still it's a great laptop and the HDMI output on my Samsung HD TV is brilliant. I play everything using the latest PowerDVD Ultra and there's no need for standalones anymore.
In a way I'm glad that this latest format war is over (at least until the next new thing comes out).
I think the Qosmio drive is a 9.5mm SuperSlim drive. At this point I'm sure there are no BD drives of that size (and when they come out they'll be mega expensive anyway), so we have to wait and see.
I recently bought a Pioneer BDC-202 Blu-ray player/DVD recorder and I use that on the Qosmio via SATA to USB2 adapter, this setup covers all my BD playback needs.
It'be be good to know if changing the drive will invalidate warranty.

Indexing and categorization takes too long - why?

I have set up a news publishing system where journalists access a folder and publish their news there using an xml form. So far so good.
Readers of the news access a page with a km-navigation iview that points to a taxonomy folder. The query based taxonomy is set up to categorize news based on property-values chosen by the journalist in the xml-form. This also works as supposed.
Lifetime (time based publishing) is activated for the folder the journalists access to publish their news. Corresponding start and end dates/times for setting lifetime for an article is set by the journalists. This also works as supposed.
BUT: after saving each article the system takes awfully long to actually categorize the news and thereby make the articles visible for others than the journalists. It might be as long as half an hour or so. This also repeats itself every time an article is edited.
I also feel that basic indexing of all other documents in the portal takes too long. I want all new documents to be indexed as soon as they're saved.
Any tips?
Henning

I have set up a news publishing system where journalists access a folder and publish their news there using an xml form. So far so good.
Readers of the news access a page with a km-navigation iview that points to a taxonomy folder. The query based taxonomy is set up to categorize news based on property-values chosen by the journalist in the xml-form. This also works as supposed.
Lifetime (time based publishing) is activated for the folder the journalists access to publish their news. Corresponding start and end dates/times for setting lifetime for an article is set by the journalists. This also works as supposed.
BUT: after saving each article the system takes awfully long to actually categorize the news and thereby make the articles visible for others than the journalists. It might be as long as half an hour or so. This also repeats itself every time an article is edited.
I also feel that basic indexing of all other documents in the portal takes too long. I want all new documents to be indexed as soon as they're saved.
Any tips?
Henning

Indexing a soon to be DVD

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