libdvdcss2 installed, still no DVD on VLC, others.

[Rayek]

Hello!


Bought a new computer with a DVD drive, and for some reason, nothing will play DVDs (Kaffeine, MPlayer, nor VLC).

I have installed Mint 12 KDE 64, most of my user settings were transferred from my other computer to this new one through a simple cut/paste of my home folder.

I first checked to see if libdvdcss2 was installed correctly (as in I had the 64-bit version and not the i386 version) and everything looks to be installed properly.

I then found a 'fix' on the ubuntu forums, of deleting the .dvdcss folder in my home folder, probably to reset some basic settings. I thought this might do the trick, as there might be some discrepancy between the settings created by my older computer and this new one, but this didn't fix anything.

I have also tried uninstalling/reinstalling some packages, including the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, and have even tried with the i386 build of libdvdcss2, all to no level of success. I have also upgraded to VLC 2.0.1, which didn't help.

What happens is that I will play the DVD through VLC, the platter will spin up, the titlebar will show the title of the DVD in question, then the title will revert back to just saying "VLC", the "Pause" button that normally shows that something is being played becomes a "Play" button, and eventually the disc will spin down. No error messages to be found. When I attempt to play the DVD through Kaffiene, I get a variety of error messages, most recently, "Read error from: Error reading NAV packet." Did a search on that and found nothing.

Hopefully this isn't a hardware or player firmware issue, if anyone needs more info to help diagnose the issue, let me know.

[Rayek]

Further problems: Just found out about the horrible nature of MATSHITA. Turns out I have a "UJ8A2ASW". Has there been any progress in destroying whatever this manufacturer has done with DVDs playback? Or should I just buy an external/give up?

[vger7]

I don't know if this will help or not, but...

I had a similar problem yesterday trying to play a DVD with VLC.

It would not do anything or load the DVD.
(I'm running Mint 10 LXDE on that machine).
I went and ran it thru a terminal command line next, 'VLC', to see what errors
it would spit back at me. But instead of errors, it ran!
Kinda weird, but it worked for me.

Give it a try and see what errors if any you get.

Good Luck

[Rayek]

Okay, ran VLC through the terminal, loaded the DVD, something new happened; the sound of the menu was playing, choppily, and VLC wasn't displaying the menu, just the "cone icon".

Here's what the terminal spat out:

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rayek@BloodDumpster ~ $ vlc
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
[0xe96108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/rayek/.config/ibus/bus
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.12 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title: SPACE_GHOST_1998
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 352fb387
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/rayek/.dvdnav/SPACE_GHOST_1998.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 1

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 0x00000133
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000197
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000b18
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
[0x7f8248001b68] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[0x7f8248001b68] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called

I have been thinking about just straight up replacing this drive. The Matshita drives are notorious for causing problems like this, and as far as I am aware, there has been no solution presented. Something about a dodgy amount of region encryption.

[vger7]

Sorry, I can't help you out here.

But you may want to borrow an external USB DVD drive to
see if you still have this problem.

You don't want to buy and replace your drive and find
you did all that for nothing.

Keep on digging a bit more.

[Rayek]

I will try to find one to borrow, thanks for the help!