Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> So, I got sent a DVD from Australia and of course my old US DVD player
> refuses to look at it.  No problem, I'll install mplayer on my laptop.
> It is able to recognize the DVD, how many tracks, angles etc.
> But while trying to play the first one the message:
>
> cd0(piixide0:1:0): illegal request, data = 00 00 00 00 6f 03 00 00 00 00
>   
Don't get DVD's from Australia... If it is a writable disk then perhaps 
it has a bad track. If it is a
commercial video disk then: 1) could be encrypted. 2) 'encrypted' by 
being a PAL formated video program,
or 3) both. Does mplayer play PAL/NTSC transparently, and does it ignore 
'zones', the other pile of crap
method of locking the world in to little blox by the media corporations.