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dcouch

Member

Registered: 2008-08-15

Posts: 11

DVD drive is making crazy sounds!

I'm having a crazy issue with encrypted (ie commercial) DVDs (region 1).  In either VLC or mplayer, the dvd will play for a short while, then will freeze and start making sounds like an old 5 1/4" floppy drive.
I have libdvdread, nav, css installed and am in the right groups.  The DVD drive has always worked in other distros/windoze/etc, I'm not sure what would make it behave this way.

if I run VLC /dev/dvd/ from a command line, I get:

VLC media player 0.8.6i Janus 

** (.:4170): CRITICAL **: gtk_pizza_set_size: assertion `pizza != NULL' failed                                                         
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10 from http://dvd.sf.net       
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access           
libdvdnav: DVD Title: FELLOWSHIP_EXT_D2                             
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 2d14bdbd
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): FELLOWSHIP_EXTENDED
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/darren/.dvdnav/FELLOWSHIP_EXT_D2.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 1

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000184
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000092ff
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0004dc49
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x003bf0d2
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 2 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
[00000325] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:448000
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
[00000343] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:448000
No accelerated IMDCT transform found

10 or so seconds of play, then the crunchy noises.  Any ideas?

dcouch

Member

Registered: 2008-08-15

Posts: 11

Re: DVD drive is making crazy sounds!

OK, I feel like a complete doofus.  I neer bothered looking at the surface of the DVD before playing (low light in my office).  So, I tried the novel approach to fixing my issues--I CLEANED THE DISK.
Amazing!  Great playback in VLC and Mplayer.
And here I wanted to find some issue with Arch...