Installing and Configuring a DVD Drive
Installing and configuring a DVD-ROM drive or DVD writer requires the same steps detailed in Chapter 10, with the following exceptions:
Windows 95B/98/Me and Windows 2000/XP support DVD-ROM drives natively, and see DVD writers as DVD-ROM drives. Windows can access DVD-ROM data discs directly, but it requires a player application to decode and display DVD-Video.
Linux recognizes DVD-ROM drives and DVD writers only as standard CD-ROM drives. Although Linux can read ISO-9660-formatted DVD discs, reading UDF-formatted DVD discs (including standard DVD-Video and DVD-ROM discs) requires separate applications.
Just as for writing CDs, Windows and Linux both require separate applications to write DVD discs in DVD-RAM, DVD-R/RW, or DVD+R/+RW drives. To write DVDs with an ATAPI DVD writer under Linux, you must configure the DVD writer to use the ide-scsi driver rather than the default ide driver.
DVD drives use Region Coding, which restricts which DVD discs may be played in that drive. For example, a drive set to Region 1 (U.S. and Canada) can play only Region 1 discs, while a drive set to Region 2 (Europe) can play only Region 2 discs. By default, DVD Region is set to the installation location. The Region setting for the drive can be changed a limited number of times, typically five.
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