Movie DVD's Won't Mount On My System.

Harpo1 · June 5, 2011, 3:14pm

Hello

When I insert a DVD movie, it won;t show up to play. I can’t see it when I click on the My Computer icon, and it doesn’t show up in the device notifier. I have tried a couple of different DVD’s and a couple of different OpenSuse 11.4 computers. This would leave me to believe that it is a setting issue that I am missing. I have never had this issue before with other OpenSuse versions. All I had to do was install all the codecs required and voila! Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks
Harpo1

caf4926 · June 5, 2011, 3:28pm

But you can play the DVD with VLC or similar?

If you use KDE doesn’t the DVD show in Dolphin ‘Places’

Harpo1 · June 5, 2011, 3:38pm

No, the DVD won’t shop up. so, I don’t get the opportunity to try and play it. I use SMplayer as a rule for playing DVD’s. However, when I put my OpenSuse DVD disc it shows up of course. So my DVD burner is hooked up fine.

caf4926 · June 5, 2011, 6:02pm

Have you tried setting automount in
system settings > Hardware > Removable Devices

Harpo1 · June 5, 2011, 6:39pm

Yes, after you suggested it, I set it to automount. There was no improvement. I put my OpenSuse DVD back in and it mounts it right away. This only seems to be taking place with movie DVD’s. I will try yet a third DVD just to see.

Harpo1

Harpo1 · June 5, 2011, 6:47pm

Okay, so I tried a burnt DVD and this works no problem. It just seems to be with store bought DVD’s. I don’t have an idea for why this would be. Anybody else have an idea?

Harpo1

caf4926 · June 5, 2011, 6:50pm

This doesn’t happen to me
Can you test a new user login, you’ll have to create one. Maybe you have crud in your .kde4
But smplayer has a play DVD button in the interface, does that not work?

DenverD · June 5, 2011, 7:59pm

On 06/05/2011 07:06 PM, Harpo1 wrote:
>
> It just seems to be with store bought DVD’s.

maybe it is a DRM problem…if you are dual booting, suggest you boot up
with The Dark Side and see if it plays then…

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Harpo1 · June 5, 2011, 8:13pm

I’m not dual booting. Wanted to rid myself of “that”. I can’t click on the DVD button on Smplayer’s interface, because DVD isn’t present. Just store bought ones though. This is perplexing to my sense and sensibilities.

Harpo1

caf4926 · June 5, 2011, 8:35pm

OK
So will k9copy rip it?

martin_helm · June 5, 2011, 8:44pm

caf4926 wrote:

>
> OK
> So will k9copy rip it?
>
This brings me to the question: Is libdvdcss2 or libdvdcss installed?

Harpo1 · June 6, 2011, 2:31am

libdvdcss2 is installed already.

martin_helm · June 6, 2011, 2:49am

Harpo1 wrote:

>
> libdvdcss2 is installed already.
>
It was just a random thought, since it would not have explained why it is
not mounted. Your problem is really strange, I tried today several different
bought movie DVDs after I saw your thread to find out if at least one of
them does not come up automaticaly (to understand if they are somehow
different) but found none which does not work.
The data dvd you tried is it single or double layer, did you try with other
double layer dvd’s (data not bought movies) and were able to mount them?
Maybe your drive has a problem with them?

Harpo1 · June 7, 2011, 12:33am

All of my data DVD’s are single layer.

martin_helm · June 7, 2011, 12:41am

Harpo1 wrote:

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> All of my data DVD’s are single layer.
>
So we found at least a possible difference to the movie dvd’s. All bought
movies a have are double layer (I do of course not know if the same is true
where you live).

martin_helm · June 7, 2011, 2:32am

martin_helm wrote:

> Harpo1 wrote:
>
>>
>> All of my data DVD’s are single layer.
>>
> So we found at least a possible difference to the movie dvd’s. All bought
> movies a have are double layer (I do of course not know if the same is
> true where you live).
>
Can you post the output of


sudo wodim -prcap

between code tags it should list the capablities of the drive. It does not
show if there is dual layer support (and I do not know a command which can
check this), but gives infos about type and firmware version and other
details.

Harpo1 · June 7, 2011, 3:11am

Okay, all it reads is my CD drive, not the DVD burner. How do I direct it to read the DVD drive?

martin_helm · June 7, 2011, 3:49am

Harpo1 wrote:

>
> Okay, all it reads is my CD drive, not the DVD burner. How do I direct
> it to read the DVD drive?
>
The command lsscsi should list the devices and their device name, you will
see some lines, the line with the dvd drive should look similar to this (of
course you will see a different model and so on)


[1:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  Optiarc  DVD RW AD-7200S  1.83  /dev/sr0

the last entry is the device node, you can use it with wodim for example


sudo wodim -prcap dev=/dev/sr0

in my case.

martin_helm · June 7, 2011, 3:54am

If the wodim command does not work for you (I am not sure if it works for a
pure reader which is not a burner), you can post the output from lsscsi and
we can try to find out if there are known problems with that device.

Harpo1 · June 8, 2011, 1:08am

Thanks martin

Here is the output as requested.

evice type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : ‘TSSTcorp’
Identification : 'CDDVDW SH-S222A ’
Revision : ‘SB00’
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.

Drive capabilities, per MMC-3 page 2A:

Does read CD-R media
Does write CD-R media
Does read CD-RW media
Does write CD-RW media
Does read DVD-ROM media
Does read DVD-R media
Does write DVD-R media
Does read DVD-RAM media
Does write DVD-RAM media
Does support test writing

Does read Mode 2 Form 1 blocks
Does read Mode 2 Form 2 blocks
Does read digital audio blocks
Does restart non-streamed digital audio reads accurately
Does support Buffer-Underrun-Free recording
Does read multi-session CDs
Does read fixed-packet CD media using Method 2
Does not read CD bar code
Does read R-W subcode information
Does return R-W subcode de-interleaved and error-corrected
Does read raw P-W subcode data from lead in
Does return CD media catalog number
Does return CD ISRC information
Does support C2 error pointers
Does not deliver composite A/V data

Does play audio CDs
Number of volume control levels: 256
Does support individual volume control setting for each channel
Does support independent mute setting for each channel
Does not support digital output on port 1
Does not support digital output on port 2

Loading mechanism type: tray
Does support ejection of CD via START/STOP command
Does not lock media on power up via prevent jumper
Does allow media to be locked in the drive via PREVENT/ALLOW command
Is not currently in a media-locked state
Does not support changing side of disk
Does not have load-empty-slot-in-changer feature
Does not support Individual Disk Present feature

Maximum read speed: 22160 kB/s (CD 125x, DVD 16x)
Current read speed: 22160 kB/s (CD 125x, DVD 16x)
Maximum write speed: 30470 kB/s (CD 173x, DVD 22x)
Current write speed: 30470 kB/s (CD 173x, DVD 22x)
Rotational control selected: CLV/PCAV
Buffer size in KB: 2048
Copy management revision supported: 1
Number of supported write speeds: 8
Write speed # 0: 30470 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 173x, DVD 22x)
Write speed # 1: 27700 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 157x, DVD 20x)
Write speed # 2: 24930 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 141x, DVD 18x)
Write speed # 3: 22160 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 125x, DVD 16x)
Write speed # 4: 16620 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 94x, DVD 12x)
Write speed # 5: 11080 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 62x, DVD 8x)
Write speed # 6: 8310 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 47x, DVD 6x)
Write speed # 7: 5540 kB/s CLV/PCAV (CD 31x, DVD 4x)