"your Dvd Is Probably Crypted" Whatever I Do

Hi,

I have searched high and low, and followed all advice I can find, from Jem Matzan onwards; I cannot get my SuSE 10.1 to read commercial DVDs.

I have removed Kaffeine, Gxine, xine-ui, libxine1, ... the lot - everything that might impact DVDs. I have removed my .xine and .dvdcss directories.

I have reinstalled libxine1, libdvdcss and xine-ui, one-by-one, in that order. When I run xine I can view the initial copyright notice and the publisher's (BBC) logo sequence. Then I get a popup that tells me "The source seems encrypted and can't be read ... " telling me I may or may not install libdvdcss.

The message log (why is this output completely uncopiable!!?) says that the demux plugin has been found, that there were several audio decoder errors: unknown buffer type, that video-out threw away several images because they were too old!

/Var/log/messages contains the following:

Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 40276
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 10069

Can anybody please help me?

Many thanks

seems there's an error caused by your DVD drive, maybe it's about to die?

for encrypted DVDs, download the source code of MPlayer, compile it yourself (./configure, make, su -> root password, make install) and watch your DVDs, MPlayer comes with a CSS cracker by default so you'll be able to watch encrypted DVDs... though it doesn't have support for DVD menus like Xine does

did you install jem's prerequisites beforehand? how many dvd's have you tried to test?

maybe gives us a step by step 1,2,3 etc. see where the fault lies

your version of
libdvdcss
libdvdread
libdvdnav

source of xine

Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 40276
Jan 2 22:31:16 mybox kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 10069[/b]

Are you confident that you have good hardware? Can you successfully read this DVD with MS-Windows and your same hardware (assuming you have a dual boot)?

Hi guys,

Many thanks for your replies. I had prepared a nice long answer, including version numbers for Broch, and saying how my player played unencrypted DVDs and that I had all the prerequisite sources etc. then I thought I'd try a few different DVDs to answer tuxedo. Bingo - they all seem to work except the two I was trying!! How to waste a few days!

So the next big question is: why does my system screw up on the BBC's 2005-series Doctor Who DVDs. Have they used a different encryption method? The discs run fine on both the InterActual and PowerDVD software on on of my kids W98 boxes.

So for info trying to work this out:

Broch: The versions I'm using are:

libxine1 1.1.3-0.pm.0
libdvdcss 1.2.9-1
libdvdread 0.9.7-0.pm.0
libdvdplay 1.0.1-159
libdvdnav 0.1.10-14
xine-ui 0.99.4cvs-20061123.pm.0 from packman

Oldcpu, Microchip: There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with my hardware - it plays unencrypted DVDs with no problem. There are no messages in /var/log/messages when I play an unencrypted DVD. I don't have windoze on my machine any more and I'm quite happy that way!

Tuxedo: Yes I have all the prerequisite sources defined.

xine-check gives me the following, by the way:
$ xine-check
Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.6.16.27-0.6-default)
[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
[ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH
[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.3 exists.
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
[ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins
[ good ] I even found some skins.
[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdd
[ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/hdc
[ good ] DMA is enabled for your DVD drive
[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YV12 overlays (improves MPEG performance)
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YUY2 overlays
[ good ] Xv ports: YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420 YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420 YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420
$

Microchip: Mplayer didn't like the BBC discs either.

Thanks again.

probably this specific disc is a bad production, linux handles DVDs a little different than Windows, i also experience from time to time that some DVD doesn't work on linux or they work but hang at the beginning

try installing and using it with the videolan player (vlc in your smart channels). perhaps it does use a different encryption (sounds like an encrypted dvd prior to installing the necessary lib.), but I really wouldn't think that this is the case. tried to find any special info on the dvds you spoke off to see if there was anything unusual or new about them and came up with nothing. Maybe the Daleks got to your Linux first. :lol: :lol:

just in good fun longpete.

edit: I have noticed when I use videolan that when you open the disc through the videolan gui, it goes straight to menu, bypassing everything else, even if there is a menu option before going into the main menu (which type of menu you want to see)

This problem occurs with three different discs from the same series, microchip. I've tried other BBC DVDs purchased recently and they play fine.

try installing and using it with the videolan player (vlc in your smart channels). perhaps it does use a different encryption (sounds like an encrypted dvd prior to installing the necessary lib.), but I really wouldn't think that this is the case. tried to find any special info on the dvds you spoke off to see if there was anything unusual or new about them and came up with nothing. Maybe the Daleks got to your Linux first. :lol: :lol:

just in good fun longpete.

edit: I have noticed when I use videolan that when you open the disc through the videolan gui, it goes straight to menu, bypassing everything else, even if there is a menu option before going into the main menu (which type of menu you want to see)
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Thanks tuxedo, I'll give videolan a whirl, but I'd still like to crack this problem with xine. WHat's even more surprising is that on the DVD cover it specifically talks about how to achieve "the highest quality playback from your DVD in a computer" so they're not trying to stop us viewing it!! (They say use a "video hardware card" and that "no other software should be running"!(?)

Cheers.

Videolan work fine, thanks tuxedo.

However, I've discovered that if I use xine with a skin that's got the "navigator" button I can select "title" and get to the menu sequence on my discs. At one point kaffeine let me get there by doing a back-chapter then a play, but now I just get an error! Weird.

Mplayer works if I select title2 from the DVD menu, but I can't get the DVD's menu sequence. Title 1 doesn't work.

Gxine and Codeine won't let me navigate so I can't use them on these DVDs.