Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Sony DRU-500A fails with DVD-RW

[j . sairanen]

Sounds interesting!

ok, dvd might not be a good transport for mp3s from
computer to stereos. Just wanted to try if it would work. 

My main problem, however, is still the fact that the Sony
DRU-500A fails writing on DVD-RW with error message

Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)

If this is not fixable I'll probably return the drive. I
consider DVD-R/RW more important to me than DVD+R/RW
(which, on the other hand, seems to work ok).


br,
Jussi-Pekka
> Oh, OK, we were talking about two different things. What you say makes sense 
> to 
> me now. :-)
> 
> On the mp3 subject, I do not think there are ANY standalone DVD players that 
> support playing MP3's off of a DVD recordable. Plenty of players support mp3 
> on 
> CD, and other content (video) on recordables, but not mp3-on-dvd. 
> 
> This is the case with my new (introduced Q2 2002) Samsung DVD-621 five-disc 
> changer. It's a pity, because with 24 GB of music in the player, I would not 
> often need to change discs for music!
> 
> There was a Slashdot story this week about a new Sony player that did mp3's 
> off 
> DVD... but it doesn't seem to be a Video player when it is "standalone" (it 
> relies on software movie decoding when hooked up to a PC). This information 
> could be wrong as the information wasn't clear.
> 
> 
> 
> Since you are interested in DVD music discs, here's my brain dump and some 
> extra 
> info for the list archives::
> 
> I've made some "audio only" DVD-Video discs (using a still for video track), 
> and > hours of 2-channel AC3 encoded audio. The audio quality seems "perfect" 
> at a CBR 
> of 224/48Khz. I created 6 "alternate" soundtracks to the copyright-free 
> classic 
> movie Metropolis... about 12 hours of music is not bad considering there's a 
> 2-hour video track. 
> 
> BTW, Metropolis is *fantastic* using Nine Inch Nails' "The Fragile" as the 
> soundtrack. The audio almost seems choreographed to the movie, with matching 
> transitions and changes in the mood. 
> 
> Converting music to audio suitable for DVD-Video format is a labor intensive 
> process of: 
> 
> 1) .m3u playlist converted to a single .WAV track (or rip your CD to a single 
> WAV - not file-per-song)
> 2) Encode the WAV as AC3 (or MPEG2 audio)
> 3) Import .resulting audio to DVD authoring program
> 4) Optionally set chapter points (copy the timecode from the .m3u playlist). 
> It's up to you if you want a chapter-per-album or a chapter-per-song. You can 
> only set up to 99 chapters per Video Title Stream (VTS), so you will need to 
> create multiple VTS tracks. 
> 
> Info) Some -- all?? --  DVD players support "random play" within a DVD Video 
> disc, so it will bounce around between the chapters on a single disc. This 
> differs from normal CD-audio changers, where random play will jump between 
> discs. The side effect is your "complication DVD discs" will play in their 
> entirety (random or not) before going to the next disc, so balancing the 
> content 
> (your musical preferences) is critical with DVD audio. You don't want to put 
> all 
> your Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin on a single disc, if you don't *want* to 
> listen 
> to every single one of them at once...
> 
> The audio quality of 2ch AC3 vs. MP3 at the same bitrates is not noticeable. 
> But 
> as you can see above, it's a LOT more work to create 5 gigs of DVD audio, 
> compared to the convenience of recording 5 gigs of plain-old MP3s. 
> 
> I'm not aware of any AC3 encoders for Linux -- I use BeSweet on Windows, 
> which 
> is free-as-in-beer. I am not aware of any Linux DVD authoring tools that 
> allow > chapter points either. I don't know if any Linux C coders have 
> approached the 
> authors of the "freeware" tools BeSweet or IFOEDIT regarding a port, but 
> these 
> are missing pieces of the DVD Video toolchain which are key (IFOEDIT is not 
> yet 
> a full blown authoring tool but that is the author's stated goal).
> 
> I might automate this MP3-->AC3 & chapter point process once work slows down. 
> Except for the final authoring, everything can be done with Perl code as glue 
> (on Windows... as mentioned, the BeSweet AC3 encoder isn't ported to Linux).
> 
> Cheers,
> Scott
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:20 AM
> > To: Scott Prive
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: RE: [Dvdrtools-users] Sony DRU-500A DVD-RW - command sequence
> > error
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry, I was a little vague on the DVD+RW issue: my DVD
> > player plays mp3s from CD with an ISO9660 fs. I've
> > already tried with my friend's DVD+RW video which played
> > ok on his player but was not recognised by mine so I the
> > failure with my DVD+RW mp3 collection disk was to be
> > expected. The disk mounts fine on Linux.
> > 
> > 
> > br,
> > Jussi-Pekka
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I might be telling you something you already know, if so 
> > don't be offended ;-)
> > > 
> > > When you say you had a "successful" burn, but the DVD Video 
> > player does not 
> > > recognize it... there can be more than one way to fail in a 
> > DVD Video player, so 
> > > I am curious as to how you determined it's the disk? 
> > > 
> > > It very well might be the drive cannot read DVD+RW (in fact 
> > it's most likely), 
> > > but the other possibility is the "authoring" is somehow 
> > noncompliant.
> > > 
> > > I say this because I once made a DVD-R that played on the 
> > computer DVD software, 
> > > but not on the Video Player. It turned out I had illegal 
> > pointers in the IFO 
> > > files, which the computer didn't care about but the 
> > standalone player did. There 
> > > are, of course, other ways to confuse a DVD Video Player 
> > (lowercase files, etc). 
> > > Video players don't seem to have "real" filesystem support, 
> > and make many 
> > > assumptions about file structure.
> > > 
> > > All reports seem to be that DVD+RW/+R is less compatible 
> > than DVD-R -- and I'm > convinced of this myself -- but 
> > before you conclude the format cannot be read, 
> > > you might want to test some more.
> > > 
> > > Two tests I can think of:
> > > 1) Do a 1:1 disk copy of something that plays on your DVD player. 
> > > 
> > > 2) Author again to DVD+R. On EITHER side of the DVD "format 
> > war", the write-once 
> > > media have higher compatibility.
> > > 
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > 
> > > Scott
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jussi-Pekka Sairanen [mailto:address@hidden
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 11:02 PM
> > > > To: address@hidden
> > > > Subject: [Dvdrtools-users] Sony DRU-500A DVD-RW - command 
> > > > sequence error
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > So I rushed to Fry's to get me a Sony DRU-500A. With 
> > dvd+rw-tools I 
> > > > managed to burn a DVD+RW succesfully. However, my DVD 
> > player doesn't 
> > > > recognise DVD+RW so my preferred format would probably be DVD-RW.
> > > > 
> > > > Burning DVD-RW failed. Befor any bits get written I get an 
> > > > error message:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> > > > Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
> > > > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Is there something I've overlooked? The disk is not 
> > formatted, I read 
> > > > someplace that it is not needed with DVD-RW. How would you do 
> > > > it anyway?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Here's the whole output.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > linux /home/jps# dvdrecord -packet -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 
> > > > video/jp/mp3.iso
> > > > dvdrtools - based on:
> > > > Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 
> > > > Jörg Schilling
> > > > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> > > > scsidev: '0,0,0'
> > > > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> > > > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> > > > Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> > > > atapi: 1
> > > > Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> > > > Version        : 0
> > > > Response Format: 2
> > > > Capabilities   :
> > > > Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
> > > > Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
> > > > Revision       : '1.0c'
> > > > Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
> > > > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
> > > > Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
> > > > Supported modes: PACKET SAO
> > > > Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB
> > > > linux /home/jps# dvdrecord -dao -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 
> > /video/jp/mp3.iso
> > > > dvdrtools - based on:
> > > > Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 
> > > > Jörg Schilling
> > > > TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> > > > scsidev: '0,0,0'
> > > > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> > > > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> > > > Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> > > > atapi: 1
> > > > Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
> > > > Version        : 0
> > > > Response Format: 2
> > > > Capabilities   :
> > > > Vendor_info    : 'SONY    '
> > > > Identifikation : 'DVD RW DRU-500A '
> > > > Revision       : '1.0c'
> > > > Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD.
> > > > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
> > > > Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
> > > > Supported modes: PACKET SAO
> > > > Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB
> > > > FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> > > > Track 01: data  834 MB
> > > > Total size:     958 MB (95:00.05) = 427504 sectors
> > > > Lout start:     959 MB (95:02/04) = 427504 sectors
> > > > Current Secsize: 2048
> > > >    ATIP start of lead in:  -150 (00:00/00)
> > > > Disk type:    unknown
> > > > Manuf. index: -1
> > > > Manufacturer: unknown (not in table)
> > > > Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks 
> > > > remaining: 1870992
> > > > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for 
> > single session.
> > > > Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. 
> > > > Operation starts.
> > > > Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input 
> > > > buffer ready.
> > > > trackno=0
> > > > BURN-Free is ON.
> > > > Performing OPC...
> > > > Sending CUE sheet...
> > > > Starting new track at sector: 427670
> > > > Track 01:   0 of 834 MB written.dvdrecord: Input/output 
> > > > error. write_g1: 
> > > > scsi sendcmd: no error
> > > > CDB:  2A 00 00 06 86 96 00 00 1F 00
> > > > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > > > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
> > > > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> > > > Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
> > > > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > > > cmd finished after 0.005s timeout 200s
> > > > 
> > > > write track data: error after 0 bytes
> > > > Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > > Writing  time:   11.121s
> > > > Fixating...
> > > > Fixating time:    0.001s
> > > > dvdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets.
> > > > dvdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min 
> > fill was 100%.
> > > > 
> > > > 
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