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dante

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Registered: 2007-06-08

Posts: 38

All Player are crashing while watching DVDs

Hi,

I have got a very strange Problem. When I want to watch a commercial DVD, vlc and mplayer are crashing in the middle of the film, or the film won't start at all. Sometimes I can watch the the first 10 min, and sometimes nothing. The same problem occurs in WinXP with PowerDVD while running in VirtualBox. So it is no problem with libdvdcss. I think that there is a problem with the driver for the DVD-Drive in Arch, because I have got no problems in Ubuntu. What fault could it be? I cannot localize that strange problem, and I don't want to go back to Ubuntu

thanks

dante

PS: Im using a Samsung Q35 with SATA drives

PPS: I have got the solution! There is a problem with "udftools" for using and burning DVD-Ram. In my case you have to unload the packet writing device from dvd drive.

 pktsetup -d dev_name

Last edited by dante (2007-07-02 19:17:44)

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