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eliabramo

Member

From: Haifa, Israel

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 29

unable to read DVD video

I unable to read DVD video discs, although I can read DVD-R and CD.
I try to change the region using regionset but with no change.
here is the output of vlc, when I try to open DVD:

VLC media player 0.8.6b Janus
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10 from http://dvd.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/hdc with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/hdc for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
[00000291] dvdread demuxer error: DVDRead cannot open source: /dev/hdc
[00000294] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
[00000294] vcd access error: no movie tracks found
[00000294] access_file access error: file /dev/hdc is empty, aborting
[00000294] cdda access error: could not read TOCHDR
[00000294] cdda access error: no audio tracks found
[00000289] main input error: no suitable access module for `dvd:///dev/hdc'
[00000278] main playlist: nothing to play
signal 2 received, terminating vlc - do it again in case it gets stuck
[00000278] main playlist: stopping playback

rayjgu3

Member

From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: unable to read DVD video

whats in your
/etc/fstab
yours is probably
/dev/dvd         /mnt/dvd    auto      ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
mine is
/dev/dvd        /mnt/dvd    udf,iso9660      ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

i had issues with some dvd's till i changed from auto to udf

eliabramo

Member

From: Haifa, Israel

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 29

Re: unable to read DVD video

no, mine is exactly as yours.

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: unable to read DVD video

Have you tried a different player? I ask because VLC has had various breakages on my machine that were fixed by rolling my own copy.

eliabramo

Member

From: Haifa, Israel

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 29

Re: unable to read DVD video

i tried mplayer and totem. it can't read the disk. i can't even mount it, but i'm not sure that i suppose to mount a DVD disc.

ezzetabi

Member

Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: unable to read DVD video

Sounds like the DVD is ruined or the DVD is not a DVD reader at all, but a CD reader.  Really strange.

Do you have the same problem also playing as root?

Snarkout

Member

Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: unable to read DVD video

Do you get any interesting output in dmesg when you try to read disks?

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