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Sir Sure E. Nuff

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Registered: 2014-01-24

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Rip or play back audio/video DVD

Recently I bought a DVD that contains audio content as well as video content. On the packaging it says that it is in the "DVD Audio/Video" format.

Today I wanted to rip or at least play back this DVD on my computer. When inserting a "normal" video DVD into the disk drive, the DE which I am using (Gnome 3.12) displays a notification that offers the possibility to start playback of the inserted DVD. No such notification was displayed for the DVD in question.

Since anyway my original intention was to rip the DVD to my hard drive, this didn't bother me much and I started looking for a program for ripping DVDs. This research resulted in me installing dvd::rip.

Unfortunately, upon trying to the read the table of contents of the DVD, dvd::rip displays the below error message:

Job 'Determine number of titles' failed with error message:
Command exits with failure code:
Command: execflow tcprobe -H 10 -i \/dev\/sr0 && echo EXECFLOW_OK

Output: libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sr0 with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sr0 for reading
[[31;1mtcprobe[0m][31;1m critical[0m: unrecognized filetype for '/dev/sr0'

While googling for problems with DVD playback in Arch, I came across some generic solutions that didn't solve the problem, namely adding my user to the audio, video, and optical groups as well as installing packages for handling DVDs (libdvdread, libdvdcss, libdvdnav).

Is there someone who has managed to rip or play back DVDs in the "DVD Audio/Video" format?

Last edited by Sir Sure E. Nuff (2014-05-25 09:25:15)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Rip or play back audio/video DVD

Can you mount the disk and see its file system?  If it is a DVD, you should be able to do this, regardless of and CSS.
Is there any chance this a VCD (Video CD)?

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Sir Sure E. Nuff

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Registered: 2014-01-24

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Rip or play back audio/video DVD

Thank you for your reply. Yes, the disk is mountable and on the disk it expressly says that this is a "Audio/Video DVD". Nevermind, though, as I was successful in ripping the DVD using VLC.