audio cd and dvd playback error

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I am having difficulty with playing back movie dvd’s and audio cd’s. I
recieve this error from trying to playback X-Men3 in vlc.

> Playback failure:
> DVDRead could not open the disk “/dev/sr0”.
> Your input can’t be opened:
> VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘dvd:///dev/sr0’. Check the log for
> details.
>

I have libdvdcss and w32codec-all… mplayer, smplayer, vlc, xine, xine
plugins…

I can explore the dvd in konqueror and the vob files are reconized as
files to be played. However If i click to play nothing will open/happen.

Dvd playback worked in suse 11. So I am fresh ooout of ideas.

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This is a known issue and there appears to be a bug report out on it
too.

I’m not sure where it is all up to at the moment.

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Box: Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2 x86_64 | OS 11.0 | (KDE4.1.85) “3.1” | M2N4-SLI
| AMD 64 X2 5200+ | nVidia 8500GT | 2GB RAM
Lap: OS 11.1 | Celeron 550 | (KDE 4.1.85 “release 3.1” | Intel 965 GM |
Lenovo R61e | 1GB RAM

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‘Permissios in /dev caused failure to play video dvd - openSUSE Forums’
(http://tinyurl.com/85swnx)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/408252

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Lap: OS 11.1 | Celeron 550 | (KDE 4.1.85 “release 3.1” | Intel 965 GM |
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wrenderSUSE;1914747 Wrote:
> I am having difficulty with playing back movie dvd’s and audio cd’s. I
> recieve this error from trying to playback X-Men3 in vlc.
>
>
>
> I have libdvdcss and w32codec-all… mplayer, smplayer, vlc, xine, xine
> plugins…
>
> I can explore the dvd in konqueror and the vob files are reconized as
> files to be played. However If i click to play nothing will open/happen.
>
>
> Dvd playback worked in suse 11. So I am fresh ooout of ideas.
I have had the same problem for the past few days… After much
searching this seems to have resolved the problem for me…

http://tinyurl.com/84jpy7

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What is that rpm and how does it relate to the problem? and does it
matter if I am using suse 11.1 x64?

Sorry, I like to make sure I have an idea of what I am installing
first.:wink:

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I had this problem too. The quickest temporary fix is to add users who
need to be able to access the dvd writer/rom to the group ‘disk’, then
logout and log back in.

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I added my user to the “audio”, “disk” and “cdrom” groups, now I’m able
to listen to audio cd.

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Would it be safe to assume that if I wait a while that there will a
update that will fix this so I do not have to modify anything?

I just don’t want to modify something on my system that is not
necessary and then officially gets addressed later. If you know what I
mean.:\

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so I did the

> added my user to the “audio”, “disk” and “cdrom” groups

And now it works… Thanks for the help guys.

Hopefully there will be an update that takes care of this. I don’t know
how many people are comfortable dealing with User/Group management.

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the link is for libdvdcss2 updated from packman. and no on 11.1 x64
should be no problem :slight_smile:

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I can confirm this. Adding myself to those 3 groups has resolved VLC DVD
playback issues… It’s really easy to manage those setting in YaST user
and groups gui

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wrenderSUSE;1915169 Wrote:
> Would it be safe to assume that if I wait a while that there will a
> update that will fix this so I do not have to modify anything?
>
> I just don’t want to modify something on my system that is not
> necessary and then officially gets addressed later. If you know what I
> mean.:
This is being talked about (rather heatedly) in bug #408252 on
bugzilla. The developers don’t recommend that you add ‘disk’ to your
user.

While this does fix the problem, it isn’t a good practice. An updated
version of hal is available here:

‘Index of /repositories/home://dkukawka/openSUSE_11.1’
(http://tinyurl.com/95u6nf)

And the update should be available through YOU soon. Don’t forget to
remove disk from your user after installing this update.

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