Re: [PLUG] DVD playback not close to working

[Scott Budihas <budihas@gmail.com>]

Since you seem to be running Ubuntu...have you been to this site?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

and specifically, followed the instructions under "Playing Encrypted DVDs"?

VLC cannot open an encrypted disc without those packages.


HTH



On 01/10/2011 08:21 PM, Adam Zion wrote:
> OK, big problems w/DVD playback. I know that the DVD-RW drive *should*
> work, since I have used it to read and write data files to CDs + DVDs.
> But no dice with DVD playback. VLC gives me the following errors:
>
> Playback failure:
> DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".
> Your input can't be opened:
> VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd'. Check the log for details.
>
> Unfortunately, a Google search on the above only yielded suggestions
> to do what I'd already done, which was reinstall
> ubuntu-restricted-extras and ubuntu-restricted-addons.
>
> One variable: this DVD-RW is not a factory install in my Ratel Ultra.
> I had planned to transfer my EIDE drives over, and hadn't considered
> that the new box might not include any EIDE connectors whatsoever. So,
> I had to purchase a third-party DVD-RW drive. There is a possibility
> that there is a jumper I had to move, or that I needed to use a
> different SATA port than I did.
>
> Any assistance would be much appreciated, since I have precious little
> hair remaining to pull out of my head.
>
> Thx,
> -Z
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