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#1

Hi Everyone,

I just would like to say thanks to all of you who posted on helping me out with DVD playback. I eventually got DVD’s playing after installing VLC player with the libdvdcss codec. Many thanks.

I just have one question? VLC does not always play a DVD. I have one DVD drive which is on /dev/sr0. When I play the DVD, it sometimes play and sometimes doesnt. It costs me to change settings in VLC player to /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 and back again. I also sometimes need to view the directory listing in dolphin and then open up VLC to play the DVD. I also change the capture mode setting from “Video for Linux 2” which is the default to “Video for Linux” and then back again. Then sometimes I can get a DVD to play. This is very intermittend and I am not sure why?

I have 2 machines running openSUSE 11.1 and both is doing the same thing.

Any possible suggestions?

Shouldnt this be working each time?

Many thanks

Henk

#2

Sometimes plays
Sometimes doesn’t

Could do with knowing How exactly it doesn’t play.

Eg; I see a picture but it’s all garbled
or: I hear sound but the screen is black…

#3

Mostly i get the following error: VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘dvd:///dev/sr0’. Check log for details.

When I want to play a DVD I do the following:

  1. I open VLC player.
  2. I click on Media and select “Open Disc”
    3 I See if DVD option is enabled.
  3. I click on play.

Thenk i get the error.

Thanks

#4

“I get an Error” is not helpful.

Errors get helpful when being quoted 1:1 (i.e. from console output).

If the DVD contains some crappy, proprietary copy protection, then forget it (and stop buying that stuff from now on).

I also change the capture mode setting from “Video for Linux 2” which is the default to “Video for Linux” and then back again. Then sometimes I can get a DVD to play.

Very unlikely as this is the option for setting (web)cams as input devices and has nothing to do with DVD.

#5

libdvdcss, which VLC uses, does not support decrypting most of the newer DVD titles with enhanced protection. So you’ll have to strip it off using a Windows program (like DVD Decryptor) and then play in in Linux

#6

I have the problem using the same DVD. Sometimes it plays it, somtimes it doesnt. Weird. It is an original Star Wars Return of the Jedi DVD.

Thanks

#7

Then the most likely reason is a damaged medium.

Trying other player (mplayer, xine …) and other OSes will give more ideas of what could be wrong.

#8

I’m in agreement with micro here.