[SATLUG] Ubuntu Feisty and Playing DVDs

[Ed Coates]

On 7/3/07, Ed Coates <edcoates at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Eli Cantu <eli at then7.com> wrote:
> > Hmmm.  That is a mystery.  I haven't played a DVD lately on Feisty.
> > I'll give it a go tonight and see if I run into any troubles.  I had it
> > working under Dapper with the install-css.sh script.  I'll let you
> > know.  Also I lost track of which clients you tried...e.g. vlc, mplayer,
> > totem, xine, etc   I've also apt-get installed "gxine" as well. I've had
> > good luck with those 3 (vlc, gmplayer/mplayer and gxine).
> >
> > e
> Here's the long list:  xine, totem-xine, kaffeine-xine, (g)mplayer,
> vlc, and gxine.  They all have problems and here's what I get when I
> start from the command line:
>
Downgraded libdvdcss to 1.2.5-1 and here's what I get with xine:

lirc: cannot initialise - disabling remote control
lirc: maybe lircd isn't running or you can't connect to the socket?
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.4 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title: OCTOBER_SKY
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 31730369
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/edcoates/.dvdnav/OCTOBER_SKY.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.4 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access
libdvdnav: DVD Title: OCTOBER_SKY
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 31730369
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/edcoates/.dvdnav/OCTOBER_SKY.map'
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdnav: vm: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
xine-lib: error: Read error from::  /dev/dvd
xine-lib: error: The xine engine failed to start.: No input plugin was found.
Maybe the file does not exist or cannot be accessed, or there is an
error in the URL.