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 Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: Can't play dvd's anymore |
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Hi...I hope I'm not the only one with this problem. I am unable to play any dvd's anymore. There are dvd's in my collection that I could play a few month's back...but now I always get the same error message...and I've tried with 4 dvd players. They all say, more or less, that they cannot open the MRL DVD. VLC, for instance, says that it can't open the MRL at /dev/sr0 (which is the correct device for my drive) when I try to play a dvd. Nothing shows up in any of my log files about a problem. I've got every dvd related package I've always had when this worked. I have tried to play about 7 movies (three of which worked last time I tried, about 9 months ago). Any ideas? Here the emerge info:
| Code: | Portage 2.2_rc17 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:46:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.1/env /usr/kde/4.1/share/config /usr/kde/4.1/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j4 "
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/berkano /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa ansi asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeprefix ldap libg++ libnotify libwww live lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mozbranding mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openexr opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff transmitter truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb utempter vdpau vorbis win32codecs wmp x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vmware"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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fugue88
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Can't play dvd's anymore |
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| platojones wrote: | | ... I am unable to play any dvd's anymore. There are dvd's in my collection that I could play a few month's back...but now I always get the same error message...and I've tried with 4 dvd players. They all say, more or less, that they cannot open the MRL DVD. VLC, for instance, says that it can't open the MRL at /dev/sr0 (which is the correct device for my drive) when I try to play a dvd. Nothing shows up in any of my log files about a problem. I've got every dvd related package I've always had when this worked. I have tried to play about 7 movies (three of which worked last time I tried, about 9 months ago). |
I just upgraded VLC and some of its dependencies and am now having trouble as well. I can actually play a few clips (like the copyright notice), and the first few frames of the menu, but then the video freezes. There is no audio, but VLC plays plain audio files (MP3, OGG) just fine.
It seems that the clips it plays fine have no audio, and that it's the audio in the problem clips that are causing it to hang. DVDs use AAC for audio (I think), which is provided by faad2 for VLC. faad2 was part of my recent upgrade.
I'll let you know if I find out anything more. |
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yngwin
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: Can't play dvd's anymore |
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| fugue88 wrote: | | DVDs use AAC for audio (I think) |
No. It is usually a52 or dts. But both VLC and MPlayer should have no problems with these codecs. I would rather suspect some kind of copy protection.
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platojones
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I can rule out copy protection based on the fact that I have owned these DVDs for several years, and could play them a while back on Gentoo using Xine or Mplayer. Now no media players work. No media program will now open then at all, and they all report the same 'plugin' issue. I could be that my DVD drive has gone on the fritz, but I does fine with CDs, both audio and data. |
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fugue88
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Can't play dvd's anymore |
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| yngwin wrote: | | fugue88 wrote: | | DVDs use AAC for audio (I think) |
No. It is usually a52 or dts. |
You're right, thanks.
| yngwin wrote: | | I would rather suspect some kind of copy protection. |
Except that I'm seeing this problem on every DVD I own now, and none of them had problems before the upgrade. But maybe it is? |
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Can you give the full output you get when trying to play a DVD with MPlayer from the commandline? Maybe we can find out what it thinks is wrong.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I don't use mplayer fromt he command line much, but it looks like I should have tried that off the bat. It works on the command line when I give it the correct device. I actually tried it on the command line and it worked. The reason it worked is because It looks like UDEV has renamed my /dev/dvd to /dev/dvd7 now. I'm pretty sure that xine depends on the link being named /dev/dvd...I think it's just a matter of finding out why udev decided that dvd7 was the right name to give the DVD drive..since I only have 1 CD/DVD drive on this machine. |
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| OK, I see now...it's the 70-persistent-cd.rules that get dynamically rewritten. It's been seeing my usb drive that I plug in every once in a while, as a cdrom drive, and written several entries, causing the dvd name to keep incrementing. |
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fugue88
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| platojones wrote: | | OK, I see now...it's the 70-persistent-cd.rules that get dynamically rewritten. It's been seeing my usb drive that I plug in every once in a while, as a cdrom drive, and written several entries, causing the dvd name to keep incrementing. |
I completely misunderstood your problem! Too bad I'm having a different problem, but I'm glad it's working for you now. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| fugue88 wrote: | | platojones wrote: | | OK, I see now...it's the 70-persistent-cd.rules that get dynamically rewritten. It's been seeing my usb drive that I plug in every once in a while, as a cdrom drive, and written several entries, causing the dvd name to keep incrementing. |
I completely misunderstood your problem! Too bad I'm having a different problem, but I'm glad it's working for you now. |
Thanks...I completely misunderstood my problem too. Hope you have some luck with yours. You may want to check how much audio buffer you have as well...it may be audio related and if you run out of buffers, it will stop your video playback on many players. How to do that, though, I don't remember. |
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