Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946215AbWJSQkq (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:40:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946216AbWJSQkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:40:45 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:21189 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946215AbWJSQko (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:40:44 -0400 Subject: Re: VCD not readable under 2.6.18 From: Alan Cox To: wixor Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1161040345.24237.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1161124732.5014.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:42:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1161276178.17335.100.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 33 Ar Iau, 2006-10-19 am 18:35 +0200, ysgrifennodd wixor: > OK, but this is still mountable only from windows....... Is this ISO > filesystem hidden somewhere, or what? And that still does not explain It isn't hidden it should be in the first session > errors from xine, and the 8 megs that i actually can read using dd. > All after all - even if this disc would contain totally unsupported > tracks, with absolutly weird data, kernel should recognize it and > report something like: The different types aren't per track but per sector. > this just another hell-knows-what thing, the kernel implementation is > ok, and this is only some m$-dontated extension that prevents us from > accessing this disc? Even if it is, shouldn't it be implemented if it > is possible? Actually all the VCD stuff is a mix of the Chinese government and Philips. The specs are available although pricy. The kernel provides the infrastructure for arbitary CD handling, but provides only the file system support in kernel. It can't (and doesn't appear to need to) handle VCD in kernel it provides the tools to Xine and friends instead. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/