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Topic: Problems with DVD Playback

Though this problem is limited to a very select few DVD's, I'm getting some error messages. I've installed libdvd* files, and codecs, and many things, but I'm still having trouble with a couple of DVD's that work in Windows right upon insert. At first I thought it was an issue with the region, but I can't see this doing it for only one platform. Anyway, here's the error I get on one of the limited discs that won't play, and I've tried looking up this code, and implementing a whole load of things, but so far nothing has worked. I hope I'm not missing something stupid, but I think I need some help with this now.

Error code:

vlc /dev/sr0
VLC media player 0.9.9a Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.9a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2009 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure  '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool' '--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=2ubuntu1' '--disable-update-check' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk' '--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=libxul-plugin' '--disable-kde' '--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--disable-slp' '--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-faad' '--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--enable-mediacontrol-bindings' '--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libdca' '--enable-realrtsp' '--disable-dv' '--enable-x264' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "en_GB"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdnav: Can't seek to block 32
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/kyle/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: failed to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
[00000413] vcd access error: could not read TOCHDR
[00000413] vcd access error: no movie tracks found

Thanks.

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

Maybe it would help to upgrade your VLC to current? (v1.1.3 I believe) Add deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu lucid-getdeb apps
to your source.list and you should be able to upgrade VLC.

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

Have you tried playing the DVDs with another program like mplayer?

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

pghjake wrote:

Maybe it would help to upgrade your VLC to current? (v1.1.3 I believe) Add deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu lucid-getdeb apps
to your source.list and you should be able to upgrade VLC.

I added that, and cannot update vlc. It gives me a message that a whole bunch of files have been kept back, including vlc and vlc-nox. I'm not sure why it won't upgrade, but in synaptic, it had a lot of dependencies that weren't being met or upgraded.

anonymous wrote:

Have you tried playing the DVDs with another program like mplayer?

Yeah, I've been getting errors in every player.

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

Neikron wrote:

I added that, and cannot update vlc. It gives me a message that a whole bunch of files have been kept back, including vlc and vlc-nox. I'm not sure why it won't upgrade, but in synaptic, it had a lot of dependencies that weren't being met or upgraded.

Try this to get a newer VLC instead:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/23392/#p23392
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ies-error/

BTW do you have any other Linux machine where you can test the DVDs?

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

anonymous wrote:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/23392/#p23392
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ies-error/

BTW do you have any other Linux machine where you can test the DVDs?

I've tried those two things, and then I tried removing and then reinstalling vlc to get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.0.6-1~getdeb1) but 0.9.9a-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
       Depends: libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2) but 0.10.9-1 is to be installed
       Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1) but 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.3 is to be installed
       Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1) but 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.3 is to be installed
       Depends: libx264-85 but it is not installable
       Depends: libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.3.6) but it is not installable
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.0.6-1~getdeb1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

At random, I tried installing libqtgui4 to test if I really didn't have those dependencies, and it said it was already at the newest version. I'm at a loss for how to meet this dependencies if I already have them.

I could test it on a live CD, but no other Linux machines setup at the moment.

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

Make sure you remove the previous source (the one mentioned by pghjake) then do "sudo apt-get update" and reinstall vlc.

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

anonymous wrote:

Make sure you remove the previous source (the one mentioned by pghjake) then do "sudo apt-get update" and reinstall vlc.

I removed the previous source, and updated, then tried to install vlc. It's giving me less dependency errors, so something else must be causing those ones. I'll give you my dependency errors, following by my sources.list so you can verify that:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  vlc: Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4.5.1) but 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.3 is to be installed
       Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4.5.1) but 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.3 is to be installed
       Depends: libxcb-xv0 (>= 1.2) but 1.1.93-0ubuntu3.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freshmedia/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

Read the second link I posted. I posted the fixed for that error.

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Re: Problems with DVD Playback

anonymous wrote:

Read the second link I posted. I posted the fixed for that error.

I did that step originally in synaptic, and it still gives off those 3 dependency issues.

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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