I am trying to play a DVD on my openSUSE 12.1 installation, but, despite trying a number of different applications, none have worked.
With VLC, I would click “Open DVD,” but nothing would happen. The cone would stay on the screen. I also could not quit out of VLC; I had to force-quit.
With Kaffeine, I was given a legal message, even though I already have all the codecs installed.
With Totem, I could see the menu and use it, but there was no sound. Also, the movie was really choppy.
With SMPlayer, I was given the following error:
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_LENGTH=61.233
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_LENGTH=69.734
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_LENGTH=225.233
ID_DVD_TITLE_10_LENGTH=74.033
*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in libdvdread4/ifo_read.c:1980 ***
*** for pgci_ut->nr_of_lus < 100 ***
I tried reinstalling PulseAudio, reinstalling VLC and installing the beta, and reinstalling the codecs to no avail.
On 2012-05-31 23:56, MikeC614 wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am trying to play a DVD on my openSUSE 12.1 installation, but,
> despite trying a number of different applications, none have worked.
Is that one DVD that fails, or all fail?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
@robin_listas: I tried another DVD and VLC worked fine, meaning it’s probably a disc issue. When putting the problem DVD into my Windows PC, it also froze VLC. The disc does, however, work fine in a standard DVD player.
Since this is clearly not an openSUSE problem, this thread can be closed, unless someone has an idea why the DVD doesn’t work.
The movie is “The Dark Knight,” by the way.
EDIT: Nevermind. I retried it in my Windows PC and it worked fine under VLC. Any ideas?
On 2012-06-01 02:46, MikeC614 wrote:
> The movie is “The Dark Knight,” by the way.
There are DVDs that fail, copy protection of unknown type. In the xine
developer mail list, they commented recently that the Thor DVD fails. A
developer commented that he would accept DVD donations to try find a method
to watch it.
Yes, libdvdcss2 is absolutely needed to watch commercial DVDs.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-06-01 03:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-06-01 02:46, MikeC614 wrote:
>> The movie is “The Dark Knight,” by the way.
>
> There are DVDs that fail, copy protection of unknown type. In the xine
> developer mail list, they commented recently that the Thor DVD fails. A
> developer commented that he would accept DVD donations to try find a method
> to watch it.
IIRC, it was a rental DVD.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Have you checked in windows if your dvd is region set?
One of my laptops came with no region set. and had issues with some DVD’s
Once I set it to PAL for UK I was OK
Though in Linux I can still play other region DVD’s
On 2012-06-01 04:48, caf4926 wrote:
> Have you checked in windows if your dvd is region set?
> One of my laptops came with no region set. and had issues with some DVD’s
> Once I set it to PAL for UK I was OK
> Though in Linux I can still play other region DVD’s
Usually that only matters in Windows with “respectable” players. Those that
honor the “rules”. Linux has to break the encoding (decss whatever), and
once you do, regions are also irrelevant.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
> Usually that only matters in Windows
Maybe
But I’m only speaking from experience. And I know this advice has worked for
more than just me. So it’s worth mentioning.
On 2012-06-01 06:29, caf4926 wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
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>> Usually that only matters in Windows
> Maybe
> But I’m only speaking from experience. And I know this advice has worked for
> more than just me. So it’s worth mentioning.
Yes, I know, I read it more than once. But even so I have doubts about its
accuracy, there must be some explanation or error.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I just retested, and “The Dark Knight” still won’t play in Kaffeine/Xine but plays fine in VLC (openSUSE; haven’t tried Windows) and standalone players.
I believe the problem is a form of copy protection that intentionally puts bad sectors on the disk.
Usually that only matters in Windows with “respectable” players. Those that
honor the “rules”. Linux has to break the encoding (decss whatever), and
once you do, regions are also irrelevant.
I suspect this an encryption issue, rather than due to region encoding. Newer (RPC2) DVD hardware enforces region encoding via hardware anyway, so it can’t be got around, without hacking the device’s firmware. Raw access to the device is required by libdvdcss to crack the encryption key, and the hardware may prevent that. Current DVD firmware allows 5 changes to be made to the region before being locked. (I remember using a Linux utility to do this on my old ThinkPad a few years ago).
On 2012-06-03 03:16, MikeC614 wrote:
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> The idea that The Dark Knight can’t be decoded doesn’t make sense
> because it works in Totem (albeit choppy and with no sound).
>
> Also, when I press “No disc menus” in VLC, I get the following error:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> DVDRead could not read 3/4 blocks at 0x7fd.
>
>
> --------------------
This is the same as I have read in other forum with the conclusion that it
can not be decoded, it is a copy protection method causing different
failure modes in different software.
It will be decoded when devs get a copy of those DVDs and are pissed enough
to break them.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
What version of VLC are you using? I’m still on 1.1.13 in oS 11.4, and it plays The Dark Knight dvd fine on my system. And contrary to what I posted earlier, it turns out I can also play The Dark Knight in Kaffeine and Xine now–it just takes much longer to start up than in VLC. OTOH, The Dark Knight doesn’t play in Totem at all on my system; it just gives a popup message that an internal error occurred.
