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Title: How to read DVDs?
Post by: jiffydos on November 13, 2008, 01:14:27 AM

I am running OS 3.9, but I cannot figure out how to read DVD-Rs that I have written (or any other DVD for that matter.)

I have a DVD drive installed that works great reading all different types of CDs.  But, my OS does not appear to understand DVD files systems.

I have looked through the forums, but nothing seems to help explain how we read DVDs on Amiga OS.

Any help would be appreciated.

Title: Re: How to read DVDs?
Post by: Caius on November 13, 2008, 03:15:33 AM

Reading a DVD shouldn't require any special steps. I'm able to read DVDs using just the normal CacheCDFS filesystem that comes with OS3.9. Are you using this filesystem, or something else?

Title: Re: How to read DVDs?
Post by: Thomas on November 13, 2008, 07:47:15 AM

@jiffydos:

Make sure the DVDs are written in ISO format. UDF is not supported by CacheCDFS.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: How to read DVDs?
Post by: José Manuel on November 13, 2008, 08:55:10 AM

only can read udf with Elbox fastata interface and AllegroCDFS
i think.....

Title: Re: How to read DVDs?
Post by: jiffydos on November 13, 2008, 12:44:03 PM

That's an interesting point.  I will check to see if it is UDF or ISO.

Dave

Title: Re: How to read DVDs?
Post by: jiffydos on November 16, 2008, 05:16:48 AM

Well,

I figured it out.

The DVD was in HFS format.  I re-downloaded the ISO and burned it using my linux box rather than my MacBook and all is good now.

Thanks everyone.

Title: Re: How to read DVDs?
Post by: Thomas on November 16, 2008, 08:07:11 AM

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The DVD was in HFS format.

So HFS format for DVDs must be different from CDs. Because IIRC CacheCDFS is supposed to read HFS CDs, too.

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only can read udf with Elbox fastata interface and AllegroCDFS
i think.....

That's how it's advertised, but nobody has confirmed it yet. From my own tests, I got no disk which could be read by AllegroCDFS but not by CacheCDFS. Each DVD I tried which failed with CacheCDFS failed with AllegroCDFS, too.

Bye,
Thomas