[solved] karmic dvd playback broken?

[wizard10000]

Crossposted from Ubuntu forums - maybe I can get some help here

I've tried every readme I could get my hands on. Here are the errors I get -

kaffeine - Cannot find input plugin for MRL [dvd:/]

VLC - VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/sr0'.

xine - there is no input plugin to handle dvd:/

kubuntu-restricted-extras is installed as is libdvdcss2. Anybody got any ideas?

thanks -

[GreyGeek]

Re: karmic dvd playback broken?

Kubuntu 9.10 is not giving me any problems with DVDs.

Is your DVD player being recognized?

Open K3b and see if it recognizes your DVD.

[wizard10000]

Re: karmic dvd playback broken?

Yup. I'm trying to play the DVD I just burned

Commercial DVDs work not at all either. I've only enabled DVD playback on *buntu machines about a billion times but this one's got me stumped.

[Rog131]

Re: karmic dvd playback broken?

Do you have more than one CD/DVD device ?

Sometimes the 'buntu get confused when there are more than one device (sr0/sr1)


What tells:

ls -l /dev/dvd*

Is it same as with the:

sudo lshw

man lshw

NAME
lshw - list hardware

DESCRIPTION

lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.
It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version
and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

Earlier:

> Topic: Multimedia Problem: Maybe you don't have enough rights...(e.g: no disc in drive)
> Re: HOWTO: Get commercial DVD playback in Kaffeine - FF, GG, and HH w/KDE 3 and 4 / Xine engine media parameter.

[dibl]

Re: karmic dvd playback broken?

Kubuntu 9.10 fully updated here:

dibl@karmic:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:  Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release:    9.10
Codename:    karmic
dibl@karmic:~$ uname -a
Linux karmic 2.6.31-10-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 22 17:33:14 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I just popped a commercial DVD into the drive, which is a:

45: SCSI 401.0: 10602 CD-ROM
 [Created at block.247]  
 UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DRW_1608P3S
 Unique ID: KD9E.ixJCgEPnIj9                
 Parent ID: 3p2J.rzh8KJKnYLC                
 SysFS ID: /class/block/sr0                 
 SysFS BusID: 4:0:1:0                    
 SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host4/target4:0:1/4:0:1:0
 Hardware Class: cdrom                            
 Model: "ASUS DRW-1608P3S"                          
 Vendor: "ASUS"                                
 Device: "DRW-1608P3S"                            
 Revision: "1.24"                               
 Driver: "ata_piix", "sr"                           
 Device File: /dev/sr0 (/dev/sg3)                       
 Device Files: /dev/sr0, /dev/block/11:0, /dev/scd0, /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:1:0, /dev/disk/by-label/MR_MRS_SMITH_WS, /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrw, /dev/dvd, /dev/dvdrw                 
 Device Number: block 11:0 (char 21:3)                                   
 Features: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+DL, DVDRAM                    
 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown                        
 Attached to: #25 (IDE interface)                                     
 Drive Speed: 40                                              
 Volume ID: "MR_MRS_SMITH_WS"                                       
 Creation date: "2005092814055700$"

Kaffeine plays it with no apparent issues.

[wizard10000]

Re: karmic dvd playback broken?

Do you have more than one CD/DVD device ?

Sometimes the 'buntu get confused when there are more than one device (sr0/sr1)

Had identical DVDs in both drives. Neither sr0 or sr1 will play.

[wizard10000]

Re: karmic dvd playback broken?

Interestingly, everything got fixed with last night's update.

[merlyn.the.mage]

Re: [solved] karmic dvd playback broken?

Unfortuantely, I am still having problems with commercial DVD playback and am still getting the following error.

Cannot find input plugin for MRL [dvd:/]

Even with all the most recent updates.

Outputs from

ls -l /dev/dvd*

sudo lshw

Are consistent.

Also I have the relevant libdvd* packages installed.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

[wizard10000]

Re: [solved] karmic dvd playback broken?

Yeah, mine broke again too.

[abalone]

Re: [solved] karmic dvd playback broken?

Works again now. But everything has pixel noise, whether from DVD or video files, and whether in Kaffeine or MPlayer.