DVD Drive not playing video DVDs

[DrHu]

...when I insert a video DVD original from the shop or copied, doesn't matter, the dvd mounts but it is not "playeble".

In terminal, check for decss library

• apt search libdvdcss
  v libdvdcss -
  p libdvdcss-dev - Simple foundation for reading DVDs - devel
  i libdvdcss2 - Simple foundation for reading DVDs - runtime

--that which decodes movies in order to play within linux media players..

• locate libdvdcss
  /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2
  /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2.1.0
  /usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2
  /usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2/NEWS.gz
  /usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2/README

Then any of the media players should work fine..

• VLC
  Mplayer
  Totem et all..

[ranyardm]

...and if it doesn't, paste the output of the following from a terminal :

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mplayer dvd://

That way, any error message can point the way.

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Martyn

[ranyardm]

Well that's very odd, I've never known Linux Mint not create a /dev/dvd link....

I know it's not a solution, and hopefully someone will know of why that doesn't happen, but the following in a console, might make a huge difference (I'm assuming here, that the dvd drive is the only drive in the system, if not, you're stuck to digging about in dmesg to find the right sr device) :

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sudo -i

then enter your user password

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cd /dev/
ln -s sr0 dvd
exit

then try and play again.

If the same persists, paste the output of

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ls -/dev/sr*

perhaps the device is not being detected as a dvd-rom correctly.
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Martyn

[DrHu]

It might be some codec or driver problem or may be its just that the DVD drive is too old, I'm not sure.

Based on your first post, it might very well be that the DVD player is too old, although I had no problems using a DVDrom player (read only dvd player) in previous distribution, like Suse, Fedora, Gentoo and so on..
--and I can't think that can be the answer since the DVD specs have been around for some time and they are backwards compatible.. and also the region settings for that drive and the region source material you are using world or usa (region 1))

Do you have a dvd in the dvd drive ?

• No DVD in drive..
  mplayer dvd://
  MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
  Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
  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://.
  Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
  No stream found to handle url dvd://
  
  DVD in drive..
  mplayer dvd://
  Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
  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://.
  There are 6 titles on this DVD.
  There are 6 chapters in this DVD title.
  There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
  audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.

Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Why you have that error/issue I don't know, bios settings, kernel CPU selection, over-clocking ???

[ranyardm]

Well, looks like mplayer is actually seeing the disk with that, just exiting almost immediately. I have seen disks with a blank title at the start in an attempt to confuse dvd-copying software.

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mplayer dvd://1

or

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mplayer dvd://2

up to 10 (titles) based on that disk...

I really have no idea why it might not create the /dev/dvd link though :S Do you have to recreate it after a reboot?

Also, you could see what dvd::rip makes of the dvd, see if it can see the tracks and start creating an avi from them? If so, perhaps all you need to to is create the link, then find a media player that does dvd playback with menus, and configure that to use the device. For example, totem seems to handle video dvds like so :

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totem dvd://

but also as

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totem dvd:///dev/sr0

.

Perhaps that might work for you.

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Martyn