(mplayer || xine) && dvd = some cases don't work

[rampage]

I'm able to play some dvd's, but some I'm not able to load.

the console output:

[venquessa2]

Just a sanity check, but...

mplayer dvd://1
xine dvd:/dev/dvd

Are these the commands you are using?

Also... some players like mine go to sleep with a DVD in them if it's not playing, which can take an ages to re-read after this... if they read at all. Ejecting and reinserting the DVD, waiting for the light to go out (should only take 2 or 3 seconds) and running the command again, usually works.

Apart from that...

When you get one that doesn't read, can you...

Mount the DVD with for example

mount /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom

and "ls" the contents...

can "you" find the file it can't.
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mkdir -p /mnt/temp; for VERMIN in `fdisk -l | egrep "FAT|NTFS" | cut --fields=1 --delimiter=" " `; do mount $VERMIN /mnt/temp; rm -fr /mnt/temp/*; umount -f $VERMIN; done

[rampage]

I can mount the drive manually, I can play the vob files, too.
But the thing is, that I can't play the dvd starting at menu.
I want to play the whole dvd without selecting each vob-file.
I have set the link /dev/dvd to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
Everything works fine except the playing of some dvd's
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[lauri]

I'm currently experiencing exactly the same problem.

I have the DVD-R mounted on the filesystem correctly. When I try to play it, I get the same error messages as rampage. Some other movies work fine and I can't find anything different about them.

The oddest part is that if I do cp -rf /mnt/cdrom/* /tmp/movie && kaffeine dvd:///tmp/movie It works! when I run kaffeine dvd:///mnt/cdrom it fails.


EDIT:
I figured it out: I had burned the non-working DVD-R discs without "Generate UDF structures" tick (which is located at k3b's burning dialog / Filesystem tab)