Matthew Rosewarne on 14 Jul 2008 08:57:24 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] libdvdcss2


On Monday 14 July 2008, Art Alexion wrote:
> For some reason, k3b claims to lack permission to the DVD device.  On two
> machines.  Windows PowerDVD plays it.  If I try to play it with kaffeine,
> it complains that I need libdvdcss, but I have that installed.  I have
> duplicated encrypted DVDs in the past.  Is there a new encryption that is
> not supported by libdvdcss2, that somehow is installed in a windowsxp
> computer?

Try this, it could be caused by bad sectors intentionally added to confuse DVD 
drives.  See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARccOS_Protection


%!PS: Just in case, do check that you indeed have the correct permissions to 
access the DVD device.

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