No DVD playback

regomodo · 2007-10-12 22:45:39

Hi. I'm having a major issue with DVDs

So far i am only able to play non-encrypted dvds using mplayer and vlc. Totem-xine won't work with them.

My main issue is that nothing will work with encrypted dvds. Mplayer, totem-xine, totem, vlc and ogle. I have made sure libdvdcss and the gstreamer0.10-plugins are installed but to no avail. VLC will spin up the dvd and then say it's a audio cd and then stop

I have tried all app's with my /dev/dvd commented out (as i'm using hal daemon) and with it in.

I've done a lot of searching in the wiki and all forum posts end up with them usually going dead. I'd hope that won't happen here.

Any help would be great.

BTW, yes, the username is in the optical group. I used gpasswd and usermod

Last edited by regomodo (2007-10-12 22:47:45)

FizDev · 2007-10-12 23:48:17

Hmmm... I think you also need to install libdvdread

Is your user in the audio and video groups?

usermod -G "audio,video" USERNAME

Noneus · 2007-10-13 01:17:29

Did you install libdvdcss aswell?

regomodo · 2007-10-13 07:44:23

regomodo wrote:

I have made sure libdvdcss and the gstreamer0.10-plugins are installed but to no avail.

libdvdread is installed also. I know my username is in the audio&video groups as i've listening to music and watching avi's

regomodo · 2007-10-14 00:15:12

should i assume that this thread will die like the others and give up?

btw FizDev, you don't use quotes for the groups (at least the wiki says you don't). Maybe you should edit that just in case someone tries to copy it

.:B:. · 2007-10-14 00:45:20

Don't mistake your own ignorance for someone else's error. The quotes are convenience, especially when the stuff you're typing contains spaces (which is, however, not the case here).

If you can only play unencrypted DVDs, have you checked the region code of your drive? Tested other GNU/Linux versions/Windows?

regomodo · 2007-10-14 10:15:28

B wrote:

Don't mistake your own ignorance for someone else's error. The quotes are convenience, especially when the stuff you're typing contains spaces (which is, however, not the case here).
If you can only play unencrypted DVDs, have you checked the region code of your drive? Tested other GNU/Linux versions/Windows?

fair enough. I was going by the wiki. Should i go off and rtfm or possibly use http://www.google.com ?

Yeah. I've used this drive in XP, Slack10, Debian Etch, Ark, Ubuntu. I have used many other distros but didn't try dvds with them.

It seems that possibly i'm either making a stupid mistake or missing something. This is really frustrating and am getting nowhere which seems this is the way it's going to continue to be.

Here is all the necessary details for those that can be bothered.

My Groups

on@archdesktop pyneighborhood]$ groups
lp wheel network video audio optical floppy storage users
[jon@archdesktop pyneighborhood]$

codecs-players

[root@archdesktop pyneighborhood]# pacman -Q libdvdcss
libdvdcss 1.2.9-2
[root@archdesktop pyneighborhood]# pacman -Q libdvdread
libdvdread 0.9.7-1
[root@archdesktop pyneighborhood]# pacman -Q totem-xine
totem-xine 2.20.0-1
[root@archdesktop pyneighborhood]# pacman -Q codecs
codecs 20061022-2

/etc/rc.conf

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network alsa netfs crond hal fam gdm)

/etc/fstab

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 / xfs defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext3 defaults 0 2

ogle error

[jon@archdesktop ~]$ ogle dvd:///
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to open/read the DVD
DVDSetDVDRoot:: Root not set
[jon@archdesktop ~]$

vlc error over and over - no idea why it's looking up sda4

libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sda4 with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sda4 for reading
libdvdread: Device /dev/sda4 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/jon/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
[00000277] main playlist error: invalid arguments for FindNextFromParent
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10 from http://dvd.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/sda4 mounted on / for CSS authentication

mplayer error

[jon@archdesktop pyneighborhood]$ mplayer dvd://
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+ (Family: 15, Model: 28, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
98 audio & 216 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing dvd://.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!
[file] No filename
Failed to open dvd://.

Exiting... (End of file)
[jon@archdesktop pyneighborhood]$

Cheers

Last edited by regomodo (2007-10-14 12:49:51)

Rumor · 2007-10-14 12:36:43

Heya Reg,
The only package I've used to watch DVDs is xine-ui (which should also install libdvdnav) since it has working menus.

Once xine is installed and launched, right click in the video screen where the xine logo is and choose Playlist > Get from > DVD

I hope this works for you.

regomodo · 2007-10-14 12:41:46

Rumor wrote:

Heya Reg,
The only package I've used to watch DVDs is xine-ui (which should also install libdvdnav) since it has working menus.
Once xine is installed and launched, right click in the video screen where the xine logo is and choose Playlist > Get from > DVD
I hope this works for you.

hi cheers for your help. I installed it and i got this error

[jon@archdesktop ~]$ xine dvd:///
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/sda4 mounted on / for CSS authentication
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sda4 with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sda4 for reading
libdvdread: Device /dev/sda4 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/sda4 mounted on / for CSS authentication
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/sda4 with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/sda4 for reading
libdvdread: Device /dev/sda4 inaccessible, CSS authentication not available.
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFilePath:findDVDFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
AFD changed from -2 to -1

I've tried a few dvds and this issue is for all of them. I've double checked them in XP as well

Last edited by regomodo (2007-10-14 12:42:09)

fwojciec · 2007-10-14 18:36:38

Regomodo - I don't know the answer to your specific question, but all DVDs I have tried work on my computer. I use vlc to play them, I don't remember having to install any special codecs, packages and such - I also have gmplayer installed and it did pull some packages as dependencies, but in general everything is pretty standard here. Here is what my configs look like - maybe they will be helpful to you somehow...

Groups:

[filip@ground_control32 ~]$ groups
tty lp wheel log slocate network video audio optical floppy storage scanner camera power users filip

Daemons:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng crond acpid cpufreq network sensors alsa fam hal cups mpd samba openntpd)

/etc/fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


#/dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         ro,user,noauto,unhide   0       0
#/dev/dvd       /mnt/dvd        udf             ro,user,noauto,unhide   0       0
/dev/sdb2       swap            swap            defaults                0       0
/dev/sdb3       /mnt/arch64     reiserfs        defaults                0       1
/dev/sdb5       /               reiserfs        defaults                0       1
/dev/sdb1       /mnt/windows    ntfs-3g         defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8     0       1
/dev/sdb6       /home           reiserfs        defaults                0       1
/dev/sda1       /mnt/cegla      vfat            defaults,uid=filip,rw   0       1
/tmp/link.iso   /mnt/virtualcd  auto            loop,user,noauto,ro     0       0

The main difference I see is that I have no fstab entries for my dvd player and I let hal handle everything. For mounting I use thunar volman with all auto options disabled so that when I put a DVD in the drive it is not automatically mounted - I actually let VLC mount it - I choose "Open disc" and then (/dev/sr0) device and it all plays fine. Sorry I can't be more specific with suggestions, I hope you manage to figure it out somehow.

regomodo · 2007-10-16 20:27:15

@ fwojciec . i have tried that also. I've just removed libdvdnav/css and vlc and just reinstalled libdvdcss.

When i run dvdbackup i get this error

[root@archdesktop jon]# dvdbackup -i/dev/dvd -I
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
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 0x00000120
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000735
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000f7b
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
Floating point exception

Another error is with k9copy. I get :

Can't open disc /dev/sr0!

This is getting very annoying and despite liking Arch so much i figure i'm going to have to distro hop if i can't get this sorted. No amount of googling is working atm.

Last edited by regomodo (2007-10-16 20:38:03)

regomodo · 2007-10-17 08:47:47

If you want to try and solve this issue i wouldn't bother. I'm leaving Archlinux. This thread can die like all the other no dvd playback threads here.

KimTjik · 2007-10-17 10:05:06

regomodo wrote:

If you want to try and solve this issue i wouldn't bother. I'm leaving Archlinux. This thread can die like all the other no dvd playback threads here.

Kind of a strange approach regomodo. You're reaction makes me look like a fool for actually been spending some time in searching for a cause. Do you mean that we who behind the scene try to figure out a solution "can die" as well, and that you don't "bother" whether we try or not? Besides that: I have read a lot of the DVD issue threads and to me it looks like most have been solved, so I don't understand what's all the fuzz about.

Nevertheless, my attempts yesterday - sorry for not having the time to make any post - gave just one hit (I've never encountered anything similar on any Linux system and hence no first hand experience). A Frugalware user happened to have a real struggle when using XFS on root. I might be a long shot, and I don't know how well XFS works as a root partition for a multipurpose desktop system. Maybe you've got good experience in using it, for me however it's one of those file-systems I don't really use for my desktop oriented computers.

Good luck what ever you decide to do.

AssociateX · 2008-05-03 04:49:32

KimTjik,

regomodo either is just being pissy or is really leaving Arch, either way I have the same problem and I need it solved too.

I would like to note something that I noticed that I think is strange for regomondo and I both. Running xine dvd:/// it wants to open the "/" for dvd reading. Look at his fstab and then the error he got from xine dvd:///. /dev/sda4 is his root dir.

I also tried just xine and then click the dvd button and get:

me ~ $  xine
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.5.
(c) 2000-2007 The xine Team.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading

mount |grep dvd
/dev/sr0 on /mnt/dvd type udf (ro)

Anyway, lets get this working, it's strange that some people can watch DVDs but others can't.

AssociateX · 2008-05-03 04:50:57

I'm not using XFS btw.

skottish · 2008-05-03 05:40:45

I became curious about this thread and I can't playback DVD through (S)Mplayer anymore. This is new from the last time I tried (a month ago). Nothing has changed in the machines configuration options (groups, software, fstab, etc...) beyond a possible update to some software. Before Thunar or pcmanfm would give me some feedback, but it's no longer the case. There seems to be a real mystery here.

Last edited by skottish (2008-05-03 05:43:41)

AssociateX · 2008-05-03 06:13:32

Yippy! I can finally play dvds:

gpasswd -a USER optical

That's right, I just added the reg user to the optical group.

skottish · 2008-05-03 06:53:35

AssociateX, cool! I'm happy that you have things working now. Nice.

I'm going to continue this. I don't usually watch DVD from disc. Normally I re-encode them. I do this routine:

mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile <destination>

Then I process through FFmpeg. I'm experiencing what regomodo was talking about; My test DVD don't work now. Come to think of it, almost no multimedia sites work with the Mplayer-plugin these days.

KimTjik · 2008-05-03 15:06:35

I just checked whether I also have a Mplayer issue with DVDs, but it worked without any errors. My fstab has no entries for optical devices and hence I rely on HAL for this feature (XFCE as DM).

The only issue I encounter time after time is the eject issue (some DVDs and audio-CDs won't eject of not initiated from the desktop; but for that there's a working patch until it will be properly fixed). My mother-in-law has another more unpredictable issue as described here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47386

No responses received though. Maybe I searched for the wrong key words, but I don't know a fix for it.

Sorry this become a bit off-topic.

skottish · 2008-05-03 22:25:02

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10353

timetrap · 2008-06-23 09:47:17

I am also unable to get encrypted dvd playback going,

I am using mplayer and have insalled libdvdread, libdvdnav, libdvdcss. Other videos work fine. my user account is a member of optical. And it does not work under root.

pippin · 2008-10-03 21:48:42

This is what I get with

export DVDCSS_VERBOSE=2 && vlc /dev/dvd

libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10 from http://dvd.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdcss debug: opening target `/dev/dvd'
libdvdcss debug: using libc for access
libdvdcss debug: disc is scrambled
libdvdcss debug: requesting AGID
libdvdcss error: drive would not authenticate
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD

A google for this error message ("libdvdcss error: drive would not authenticate") comes up with other people who've had problems with AOpen DVD drives (as mine is).

I'm just going to get a new DVD drive - I've had enough problems with this one. Until a week ago, only VLC would play DVDs (and even then half the time it would claim it was an audio CD), and now nothing will. The only thing I've done between is pacman -Suy (which updated libdvdcss among other things) and unplugged a harddrive from the IDE channel my DVD drive is on.

Perre · 2008-10-11 09:50:27

I had to bump this up as I seem to be facing the same (a similar) problem.

When I do:
export DVDCSS_VERBOSE=2 && mplayer /dev/dvd

I get:

MPlayer dev-SVN-r26909-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15, Model: 43, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
120 audio & 254 video codecs

Playing /dev/dvd.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  2000.0 kbps (250.0 kbyte/s)
[VO_XV] Using Xv Adaptor #0 (NV17 Video Texture)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x50.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 768x576 Planar YV12 
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 21 22
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]Warning MVs not available
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]concealing 540 DC, 540 AC, 540 MV errors
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 21 2
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 14 4
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 26 5
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 27 8
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]invalid mb type in I Frame at 11 10
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]ac-tex damaged at 12 11
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 17 14
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]invalid mb type in I Frame at 12 15
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 13 16
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]invalid mb type in I Frame at 20 17
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]skipped MB in I frame at 12 18
[mpeg2video @ 0x8954550]invalid mb type in I Frame at 15 20

Does anyone see what the problem might be?
I'm using freevo with Mplayer as the media player so I really want to get the mplayer playback fixed. Since everything else works perfectly in Freevo it kinda sucks not being able to watch DVD's.

I've installed libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdnav. I also tried regionset, but that wasn't the sollution. I'm able to start playing the DVD (both through Freevo and directly through Mplayer alone),
but the playback is corrupted, with no sound and really slow...

Update: I tried a different DVD and it played just fine. The disc that is having trouble is a DVD from the Sex and the City box set (my girlfriend wants to watch it on the 50" TV and not on her laptop,
something I clearly understand ). But the box set is bought here in Norway so it should have the same region code as the other DVD I tried. Is it the dreaded "encrypted DVD problem" I'm encountering?

Last edited by Perre (2008-10-11 10:10:14)

kd0bpv · 2010-11-26 04:13:12

I'm also having a similar issue. I can get the video, but in dragon player (KDE), I have no audio at all and in VLC, i get audio for a little while, and then I hear the drive spin up and the audio cuts out.

I have libdvd*, codecs, gstreamer0.10*, and my user is in groups: disk, optical, storage, audio, video, and hal, among a few others.

my fstab show's only my swap, /, and /home by uuid. With the disc in and playing the dvd's menu, $ cat /etc/mtab and $ mount show: /dev/sr0 /media/AVATAR udf ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000 0 0

I really want this fixed. I came to Arch from Ubuntu because it's bloated and makes a horrible dev environment (There are often libs and packages missing, and the missing package never seems to be in the repos, so then I have to build from source, and then I have to build more dependencies from source, so on, so on). I could go to FC, but I REALLY like the way Arch handles the underlying config in rc.conf and similar.

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