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List:       vbox-users
Subject:    Re: [vbox-users] writing video DVD from Virtual Box?
From:       Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-26 13:52:26
Message-ID: 373c76480901260552t7ffff04er1f0d2f189bc328a9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@sun.com> wrote:
> Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@sun.com> wrote:
>>> Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>> Hmm... it's always interesting to see the subtle differences between
>>>> distros. I'm running Fedora 10 over here. I assume when you updated to
>>>> VirtualBox 2.1.2 that you also updated the VBox additions in your XP
>>>> virtual machine?
>>> I did not.  I didn't think they had anything to do with DVD access.
>>> I thought they were only related to keyboard/mouse/screen access.
>>
>> It may not make any difference... I assume your setup is similar to
>> mine as you have to be in the vboxusers group to run, correct? I'm
>> also in the disk group which may affect how I access /dev/scd0,
>> /dev/sr0, etc. I'm pulling at straws here...
>
> I can imagine that if any of those things were wrong, I wouldn't be
> able to write the disk at all.  But that's not the issue.  The disk
> writes, but the video is terrible.  I assume it's because it's not being
> written fast enough or something like that.  I thought passthrough would
> help with that, but it hasn't made any difference.
>
> Is there a way to verify that passthrough is actually working and is
> actually being used?

That's a good question. The only way I could tell is that AnyDVD will
not work without passthrough... There's got to be some sort of "test"
that should succeed when it's working and fail if it's not.

Richard

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