discuss: DVD Playback HOWTO draft
Subject:
Re: DVD Playback HOWTO draft
From:
Thomas Zimmerman ####@####.####
Date:
28 Jan 2004 03:17:09 -0000
Message-Id: <20040127191702.507dff08.thomas@zimres.net>
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:28:26 -0800
David Jao ####@####.#### wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few weeks ago I volunteered to write a new DVD Playback HOWTO to
> replace the existing (misnamed, outdated, author-not-contactable, and
> not freely licensed) DVD HOWTO. Here is a first draft of that effort:
>
> http://dominia.org/djao/dvd-howto/ (HTML)
>
> http://dominia.org/djao/dvd-howto/dvd-howto.xml (Docbook source)
>
> Everything that I want to put in it is finished, except for a couple
> of distribution specific sections in the "Software Installation"
> chapter. Of course if there is anything I missed then I would be happy
> to have it brought to my attention.
>
> Comments are not only welcome but are actively encouraged -- I will
> listen to almost anything you have to say. I also need testers and
> people who can fill me in on what the installation instructions are
> for the distributions that I've never used.
A Gentoo install is easy, even if it takes a bit of time:
USE="dvd" emerge mplayer xine-ui xine-dvdnav ogle-gui
> Here are some of the points that I have been debating in my own mind
> while writing this draft:
>
> Is it worth it to include a distribution-agnostic section detailing
> how to build all the software from source? I originally had such
> quixotic ambitions, but backed off when I saw the sheer volume of
> packages and permutations needed to build even one of the programs.
It would be good to list links to some more of the dependencies that
mplayer, xine, and ogle use. I don't think most users of this howto
really want to built it all from source anyway.
> Do I even need to discuss gentoo given that most gentoo users are
> already power users?
I don't know that I'd go that far. Gentoo probably has more internaly
produced documentation than most distros around--the install guide is
very detailed and long.
> Is documentation about DVD illegal under the DMCA? It is hard to
> imagine how pure documentation with no source code or object code (or
> even any links to CSS code) can form an illegal circumvention device,
> but stranger things have happened. On the other hand the old HOWTO has
> been there three years already without incident, so it may not be a
> problem.
I wouldn't think so, as the MPAA is mostly concerned with copies, not
playing. If this is a worry, then don't add sections talking about
re-coding of dvds into mpeg or avi format (ie: just don't mention
mencode or dvd::rip.)
Thomas
PS: That is one nice howto; about the only thing I could think of was
the use of some paths in dev; both Mandrake and Gentoo use Devfs and the
paths to the dvd drive isn't ever going to be /dev/hdX unless the
defaults are changed in /etc/devfsd.conf.
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<type 'exceptions.IOError'> | Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Sat Jul 6 02:23:48 2024 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main() |
424
|
425 if path is not None:
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426 main_path(path)
|
427 else:
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428 main_form()
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| global main_form = <function main_form at 0x8d35c6c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form() |
378 except ImportError:
|
379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
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380 module.do(ctxt)
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381
|
382 def main():
|
| module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x8d37f7c>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'} |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}) |
18 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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19 write('<hr>')
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20 sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
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21 write('<hr>')
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22 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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| global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x8d351ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=6573) |
229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
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230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
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231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
|
232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
|
233 ctxt.pop()
|
| global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8d351b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8d93cec> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8d93cec>, partnum=1) |
205 else:
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206 for p in part.get_payload():
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207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
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208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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| partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8d351b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8d93f0c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8d93f0c>, partnum=2) |
208 else:
|
209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
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211 return partnum
|
212
|
| global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x8d35144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8d93f0c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8d93f0c>) |
164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
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165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
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166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
|
167 if not template:
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168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
|
| global template = <function template at 0x8d2de9c>, global html = <function html at 0x8d2ded4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x8d98b80> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature') |
40
|
41 def html(name):
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42 return template(name + '.html')
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43
|
44 def xml(name):
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| global template = <function template at 0x8d2de9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html') |
31 except IOError:
|
32 if not _template_zipfile:
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33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
|
34 try:
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35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
|
| global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x8cc6a7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20'] |
| /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8d40a2c>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False) |
337 self.filename = file
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338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
|
339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
|
340 else:
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341 self._filePassed = 1
|
| self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8d40a2c>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r' |
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
args =
(2, 'No such file or directory')
errno =
2
filename =
'-c'
message =
''
strerror =
'No such file or directory'
