[SATLUG] Ubuntu Feisty and Playing DVDs

[Ed Coates]

On 7/3/07, Ed Coates <edcoates at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Well, I might have solved the mystery of the non-playing DVDs...seems
that there might be a hardware issue with the DVD drive.  According to
dmesg, there are a bunch of seek and sr0: Current: sense key: Hardware
Error being reported.  Might be time to take a look at another drive

Thanks everyone for all the ideas and help.

Ed