On Mon, 26 May 2014 22:35:48 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>> When I put a Video disc in it did not recognise that there was a disc
>> mounted at all. “Insert a disc”. I put a Windows 7 disc in. And
>> although it said that it could not run the programme it did read the
>> file structure.
> 
> A video DVD is merely a data DVD using the UDF filesystem, containing
> files with specific names. It's not like CDs where an audio-mode CD and
> a data-mode CD have a totally different structure. I can believe that
> the device won't *play* a video DVD (that requires access to an MPEG-2
> codec, which usually requires actual *money), but I'm baffled as to how
> it fails to see the disk at all...
> 
> ...unless this is a region-coding "thing"...

Not usually.  The disc usually shows up and the software says that it's 
the wrong region and offers to burn one of the "change region" toggles in 
the firmware, which is usually a limited number of times thing.

Unless you use Linux, in which case the software doesn't care, doesn't do 
anything with the firmware, and just decodes the region the way it should 
because region coding is a stupid idea. ;)

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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