I installed suse about two weeks ago after ubuntu and everything works quite well except for the trouble I have when I try to play any DVD. First of all I am sure my dvdrom is working well so that is no the problem. I followed the instructions I found in the forums- and I installed all the packages that were suggested-libdvdcss etc. I tried vlc, kaffeine, mplayer, smplayer and realplayer however nothing seems to work. I tried different a couple of different dvds which work on other computers but I cant get them to work on mine. however one thing is interesting. on one of the dvds I am capable of playing like an opening bit with the name of the company which produced the dvd and all that. however, no other part of the dvd will play only that bit. every player gives me a message which says I dont have the permission to play the dvd. it shouldnt be a region problem as well because my computer is a UK bought lenovo and all the dvds are from the uk. this might help
denis@linux-3q49:~> mplayer dvdnav://
MPlayer dev-SVN-r29796-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan’t open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can’t init input joystick
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 dvdnav://.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title: Brick_Disc1
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 34f85b3c
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file ‘/home/denis/.dvdnav/Brick_Disc1.map’
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fd0000. Regions: 2
libdvdnav: ifoRead_PGCI_UT failed
libdvdnav: get_PGCN failed. Was trying to find pgcN in domain 2
mplayer: vm.c:387: vm_new_copy: Assertion `pgcN’ failed.
MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: open_stream
MPlayer crashed. This shouldn’t happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code or in your drivers or in your
gcc version. If you think it’s MPlayer’s fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can’t and
won’t help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
hi this is what i got when i did what you suggested
denis@linux-3q49:~> mplayer dvd://
MPlayer dev-SVN-r29796-4.3-openSUSE Linux 11.1 (i686)-Packman (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer TeamCan’t open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can’t init input joystick
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: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
There are 7 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
libdvdread: Unable to read VTS_TMAP_ENT.
*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in libdvdread4/ifo_read.c:1572 ***
*** for info_length % sizeof(cell_adr_t) == 0 ***
*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in libdvdread4/ifo_read.c:1705 ***
*** for info_length % sizeof(uint32_t) == 0 ***
*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in libdvdread4/ifo_read.c:1572 ***
*** for info_length % sizeof(cell_adr_t) == 0 ***
libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO).
Cannot open the IFO file for DVD title 1.
No stream found to handle url dvd://
so i did everything according to the guide and now i am completely puzzled.
one dvd plays very well with subtitles, menus and everything. no problem
but the other two i have wont play in any player. i do not understand and do not even know where to start to come up with a solution. if i open the players (vlc, mplayer) and try to play it nothing happens, but there is neither any error or anything. it will just say the name of the disc and do nothing.
please please do you have any suggestions? i do not know what to do
Have U trued using an Xine based application ?
like kaffeine or Xine-UI
In my experience libxene has much better support playing DVD’s
And a question what Desktop are U using Gnome, KDE4 or KDE3 ?
After inserting the DVD does the Desktop Manager offer U a choice of opening the DVD with an application (KDE) or does a DVD icon appear (Gnome)
Did U replace (install all packages) Xine with the one from packman, did U install libmpeg2 from packman?
On first run kaffeine will tell you if there are missing packages (codecs) run kaffeine and see the output.