DVD playback stopped working

[guitarhester]

Love the linux mint. Originally played DVDs no problem. But 2 days ago I tried to play a movie and totem gave me this, AN ERROR OCCURED "The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?"

I know it's not the drive or the DVD, I just watched it in that drive 1 week ago.

So I open up synaptic from the mintmenu and search for 'libdvdcss', I only find libdvdcss2, and it's installed.

halp?

thanks,
hester

[Boo]

you could use synaptic to reinstall the package.

[online14230]

remove and re-install libdvdcss2. It SHOULD work. Same problem I had in Ubuntu.

[guitarhester]

I turn my computer off at night, and the day after creating this topic when I rebooted, DVD playback was still broken in the fashion listed above. Today however, it 'magically' works. No reason, I didn't do anything, It just works again. ... Anyone know how or why?

[thenixedreport]

I did a search on the forum, and found a similar issue. I'm currently running Cassandra, and the other players suggest I don't have libdvdcss2 installed. Having an issue with the repositories, I downloaded a copy somewhere else, and reinstalled it. The problem was not solved.

The DVD in question is Final Fantasy Advent Children, and when I attempted to open it in VLC, I got the following output in the terminal:

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VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10 from http://dvd.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title: FINAL_FANTASY_VII
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 4411F8FC___MVB__
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/thomas/.dvdnav/FINAL_FANTASY_VII.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f20000. Regions: 1 3 4

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000172
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000001f9
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0003adb2
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x002cc93c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x002cc975
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x0030d68c
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0030d6c5
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x0035552f
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x00355568
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x003dd215
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x003dd24e
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x003de5cf
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x003de608
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x003df587
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x003df5c0
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB at 0x003e023f
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x003e0278
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_0.VOB at 0x003e17c4
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB at 0x003e17fd
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_0.VOB at 0x003e2fac
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_1.VOB at 0x003e2fe5
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_0.VOB at 0x003e42c8
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_1.VOB at 0x003e4301
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_12_0.VOB at 0x003e6860
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_12_1.VOB at 0x003e6899
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_13_0.VOB at 0x003e815d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_13_1.VOB at 0x003e8196
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_14_0.VOB at 0x003e8afe
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_14_1.VOB at 0x003e8b37
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_15_0.VOB at 0x003e9195
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_15_1.VOB at 0x003e91ce
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_16_0.VOB at 0x003e9c5d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_16_1.VOB at 0x003e9c96
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 16 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdnav: ifoRead_TITLE_VOBU_ADMAP vtsi failed - CRASHING
vlc: vm.c:218: ifoOpenNewVTSI: Assertion `0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Any suggestions? I tried everything I could think of, and to now avail and would like to play that movie sometime (yes, I'm an FF7 addict... lol.... love the story line, and absolutely loved Advent Children...).