Non commercial DVD play problems

[judgebob]

Hi All,

I've followed instructions that I've found here to play commercial DVDs and all is working fine.

But I've discovered that non-commercial DVDs do not play attempting to do it in the 'normal' way.

Kaffeine (FILE->OPEN DVD):

The source can't be read.
Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: no disc in drive). (///dev/scd0) [Ok]

No plugin found to handle this resource (dvd:///dev/scd0) [Details>>] [Ok]

Mplayer (GUI) DVD->Open Disc):

Failed to open dvd://1.

VLC (FILE->OPEN DISC):

No error, but no play.

Alternate methods:

The DVDs can be played anyway, but via these alternate methods:

mplayer:

mplayer /dev/dvd

or

mplayer /dev/scd0

Kaffeine and VLC:

FILE->OPEN DIRECTORY

These non-commercial DVDs play perfectly under Windows with all players that I've tried.


Any Ideas ?


TIA.

JB.

[integr8e]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Do you know how they are encoded?

[Snowhog]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Are you sure they are DVD formats?

[judgebob]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Do you know how they are encoded?

No, I don't.

But play smoothly on standalone, standard DVD players.

JB.

[judgebob]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Are you sure they are DVD formats?

As I've said in the previous message, all discs play on standard standalone DVD players.

JB.

[integr8e]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

What applications are you referring to as "standard standalone DVD players"?

Edit: Or, what apps do you use in Windows to play them?

[judgebob]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

What applications are you referring to as "standard standalone DVD players"?

Edit: Or, what apps do you use in Windows to play them?

Well, at first, English is not my native language, so, maybe I'm not being accurate using certain terms.

With "standard standalone DVD players" I refer to those devices designed to be connected directly to TVs.

Regarding the Windows apps (as far as I can remember) VLC or Media Player Classic.


JB.

[Snowhog]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Well, at first, English is not my native language,

What country? The DVD encoding in Europe is different that that used in the States. This may be a clue as to why Kaffeine isn't playing some of your 'non-commercial' DVDs.

[judgebob]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Well, at first, English is not my native language,

What country? The DVD encoding in Europe is different that that used in the States. This may be a clue as to why Kaffeine isn't playing some of your 'non-commercial' DVDs.

I'm in region 4 (Argentina) but I guess that this is not the problem.

I've tested the same DVDs in Ubuntu/Totem and it worked.

I let Totem to install 'suitable codecs' automatically and worked fine.

JB.

[Rog131]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

You told that:

The DVDs can be played anyway, but via these alternate methods:

mplayer:

mplayer /dev/dvd

or

mplayer /dev/scd0

Kaffeine and VLC:

FILE->OPEN DIRECTORY

These non-commercial DVDs play perfectly under Windows with all players that I've tried.

=> It isn't codecs problem. As Kaffeine is front end to the Xine. What do you have in the Kaffeine > xine Engine Parameters > Media > dvd.device ?
or
Mplayer > Preferences > Misc > DVD device ?

==> Do backends have correct info ?

[judgebob]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

=> It isn't codecs problem. As Kaffeine is front end to the Xine. What do you have in the Kaffeine > xine Engine Parameters > Media > dvd.device ?
or
Mplayer > Preferences > Misc > DVD device ?

==> Do backends have correct info ?

Kaffeine (xine Engine Parameters > Media > dvd.device): /dev/scd0

mplayer (Preferences > Misc > DVD device): /dev/scd0

Please remember, standard (commercial DVDs) play fine, so, it should not be a problem about DVD device name.

JB.

[integr8e]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Just in case, have you installed the ffmpeg and libdvdread packages? You may even have to install the w32codecs and/or libdvdcss packages from the Medibuntu repository; you can find instructions on how to add it to your list of repos here. It all just depends on the encoding of the DVD's.

[judgebob]

Re: Non commercial DVD play problems

Just in case, have you installed the ffmpeg and libdvdread packages? You may even have to install the w32codecs and/or libdvdcss packages from the Medibuntu repository; you can find instructions on how to add it to your list of repos here. It all just depends on the encoding of the DVD's.

Yes, I've already added medibuntu repositories and installed all those packages.

It's really very strange.

JB.