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shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

HandBrake not detecting DVD device

When I try to select a source in HandBrake, in the "Detected DVD Devices" combo box there are no detected devices. I have added my user to the optical group and created a udev rule to create symlinks for /dev/dvd (just in case HandBrake wasn't detecting /dev/sr0) but it still doesn't detect any DVD devices. The DVD drive is connected by USB so maybe that is part of the problem?

BaumEnterprises

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Registered: 2013-07-03

Posts: 1

Re: HandBrake not detecting DVD device

Just select /dev/sr0 as your source and you're all set

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: HandBrake not detecting DVD device

Maybe you need to be in the optical group. Are you? What's your output of

id

?

shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

Re: HandBrake not detecting DVD device

I know I posted this a while back, but I will bump this thread again because I am trying again and still haven't got it working.

Here is my id output:

[shaurz@fortress ~]$ id
uid=1000(shaurz) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),92(audio),93(optical),96(scanner),108(vboxusers)

I can't select /dev/sr0. When I click Source, under "Detected DVD devices" there is only one entry for "Not Selected". So it seems Handbrake does not detect any DVD devices.

VLC will play the DVD fine so there is no problem there. I created a symlink from /dev/dvd to /dev/sr0 but that didn't help.

My DVD drive is an LG Super Multi Drive, model number GP08NU20.

This is the dmesg output when I plug in the drive:

[24608.456938] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[24611.092879] usb-storage 1-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[24611.093034] scsi10 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
[24612.096470] scsi 10:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GP08NU20  1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[24612.138736] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[24612.138901] sr 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[24626.496317] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.496321] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[24626.496323] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.496324] Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[24626.496327] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.496328] ASC=0x6f ASCQ=0x3
[24626.496330] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: 
[24626.496331] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
[24626.496337] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 131072
[24626.496340] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 32768
[24626.496342] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 32769
[24626.497748] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.497761] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[24626.497763] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.497764] Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[24626.497767] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.497768] ASC=0x6f ASCQ=0x3
[24626.497770] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: 
[24626.497771] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
[24626.497778] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 131072
[24626.497780] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 32768
[24626.609919] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.609922] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[24626.609924] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.609925] Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[24626.609928] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.609929] ASC=0x6f ASCQ=0x3
[24626.609931] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: 
[24626.609932] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
[24626.609938] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4096
[24626.609942] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1024
[24626.609944] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1025
[24626.611283] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.611287] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[24626.611289] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.611290] Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[24626.611293] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0]  
[24626.611294] ASC=0x6f ASCQ=0x3
[24626.611296] sr 10:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: 
[24626.611297] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
[24626.611305] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4096
[24626.611307] Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1024

I'm not sure what all those error mean...

chico

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-03-06

Posts: 16

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Re: HandBrake not detecting DVD device

I have the same problem.
Handbrake does not detect the DVD drive.
However, I can rip my DVD's by using /dev/cdrom (or whatever /dev/ file that points to the DVD)
Just clivk on "source" navigate to the /dev folder and choose the right device.. (sr0, dvd, cdrom or whatever it's name is)

Good luck

defears

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Registered: 2010-07-26

Posts: 218

Re: HandBrake not detecting DVD device

I just had this a few weeks ago, but I'm trying to remember what I did to fix it. I think I had to install a polkit or gvfs package.

dasonk

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Registered: 2013-12-08

Posts: 4

Re: HandBrake not detecting DVD device

I was having the same issue and installing gvfs fixed it for me.