And your bug is unrelated to the OP, if a ln -s fixed it...
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@Bryce Harrington: Hi; there hasn't been comments on this bug for a
couple years; is anyone still experiencing this issue?
Yes.
Xubuntu 13.04
Parole 0.5.0
xubuntu-restricted-extras is installed.
libdvdread4 is installed.
libdvdcss2 is installed
Installed RegionSet; region was already set
Hi Bryce, I haven't commented before because I've just marked this bug
as “affects me”. I experience it as long as I remember (for at least 2
years).
I've just checked with some random VideoCD from cornflakes pack or
somewhere. In attachment there's short screencast. It shows my desktop
from time
Thanks for the feedback mmiicc. I notice though that you haven't
commented previously on this bug report, so am not sure about your
specific situation - can you elaborate on how you're experiencing the
bug, including which DVD you're testing it with? Since you mentioned
that it worked in Totem
Hi; there hasn't been comments on this bug for a couple years; is anyone
still experiencing this issue?
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Hi Bryce.
I just tried with fresh install of 11.10. This bug is still present
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Although, if I first start Totem and from menu I select the video on
disk, it plays OK.
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Ubuntu bug 347045 looks like it is a similar error message.
This is for Xubuntu with all the libdvd, decss, and other necessary
codecs installed to play encrypted DVDs.
Opening a terminal window and running totem dvd:// works fine, running
totem and manually playing the DVD works fine.
tobi's solution worked for me. Region set is 1 for USA. Installed
regionset from terminal, set to 1, reboot and it works. Thanks.
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Hi all,
I had exactly the error message described at the begin of this bug report. My
system is a Lenovo X301 fresh set up uf Ubuntu 9.04. I tried several players
and non of them worked.
The problem was in my case the regionset. Just installed the regionset with
Synaptic Package Manager.
-
re-installing libdvdcss2 did the playing trick for me
still non-sync on the dvd-menu for latest/newest dvd's though
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I think it's got something to do with copy protection on the DVD's
themselves. Older disks work fine, and recorded disks work as well.
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Even i face the same problem.:( But it works when we open with MPlayer.
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How would I address the problem mentioned by RolfSander in comment
#58, concerning the /dev/dvd folder?
cd /dev
sudo ln -s sr0 dvd
For reasons I don't understand, I have a link /dev/dvd1 pointing to
/dev/sr0 but not a link /dev/dvd. Only after creating it manually
(see above) xine finds the
Here's a question for you all. Is anybody who's commented on this bug
using a 64-bit OS? I had the issue on a 32-bit OS, but for the last
three weeks I've been using 64-bit Ubuntu on two different computers
(one of these the one I had the original problem on) and so far I've
experienced no
Well I use 64 bit Jaunty.
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Thanks, fixing the /dev/dvd sr0 problem settled it for me.
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Onkar Shinde's version of libdvdread4 seems to have fixed this problem
for me.
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I forgot to mention that I am using the 32bit version of Jaunty.
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How would I address the problem mentioned by RolfSander in comment #58,
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Apparently the fix I did to libdvdread in jaunty did not fix this problem
correctly. The fix works for me but not for others. Also as mentioned here, the
issue is not seen on all DVDs.
I am wondering if this has anything to do with endianness as specified in Debin
bug 531621 -
I am happy to test a library with different endianness against my small
DVD collection.
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Any progress on this bug? I am getting ready to toss out Jaunty and get
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Same problem, none of the fixes work. This is quite annoying; dvds
worked fine on Intrepid for me.
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Onkar, is anything going to happen about this bug? It certainly is an
important one, but as a bug reporter I miss some information on what's
going to happen next.
I am of course happy to provide more information on the bug if needed.
Cheers
Alex
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in my case, /dev/dvd exists and points to /dev/sr0. As we mentioned
before, the problem occurs randomly with some DVDs, not with all.
Nautilus happily lists all the DVD's contents, just opening them doesn't
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Fresh Jaunty install fails on an Acer Aspire 5315 (Intel Celeron) for me
too. VLC runs the menu screen but then that's all. All the necessary
CODECs, libs etc. loaded.
Everything else appears fine.
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Same issue, fresh install of 9.04 x64 on Dell XPS M1330.
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Ditto here. Fresh Jaunty amd64 install. What is the solution
(condensed) to this problem?
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Ditto here. Fresh Jaunty amd64 install. What is the solution
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One thing to try is to check that /dev/dvd exists and points to the DVD-
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I am in the same boat as AlexE. The strangest thing for me is that
playing DVDs used to work just fine (without the region code set). Now
those same DVDs do not work -- they play the copyright warnings and
legal disclaimers and then stop with the error, Could not open
location; you might not have
Regionset fixed it for me. I was only noticing the problem on some DVDs.
My PC is home built and I had not set the region when I first built the
system. Most DVDs worked ok. A few had issues which matched this topic.
Setting the region code seemed to do the trick.
:-)
I found this link useful
Unfortunately, this doesn't do the trick for me.
I have my region code set and still can't play certain DVDs.
I am happy to provide more information if needed.
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I had this behaviour (or one very similar to the original submitted by Francis)
on my shiny new Ubuntu 9.04 laptop. After having set up the DVD drive region
code set via regionset (+rebooted the system), totem and VLC were able to play
DVDs.
It may not apply to every system, but may be worth a
This is very strange.
I have this bug on my Thinkpad T42 - at least, I get the error message
that is in the name of this bug, and totem dvd:// spits out the same
errors that others have reported.
However:
1. Some DVDs work. Kill Bill Vol. 2 worked fine last night.
2. Some DVDs do NOT work. For
I have a friend who is just starting with Ubuntu, but he gets this bug
on a fresh install. Not a good first experience. It is a x86 system.
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I can confirm the same happen with a jaunty amd64 and a 32 bit release
too.
un libdvdcss non definita (descrizione non
disponibile)
un libdvdcss-dev non definita (descrizione non
disponibile)
un libdvdcss0 non
Is there a solution for this bug? I am also having an issue of being
able to playback dvd's on two different computers I upgraded to Jaunty.
Totem gives the error message of Could not read from Source.
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Looking at the reports, and my own experiences the updated packed seems
not to have solved the problem.
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I have a new install of Jaunty and experiencing the same problem. The
newer packaged that has been provided has not solved the problem.
This happens with similar or the same error messages in Xine, mplayer,
vlc and totem.
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I have the same problem with one DVD (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone), other DVD-s I have seem to play fine. I also tried ppa
libdvdread4 but it made no difference.
e...@siil:~/filmid $ aptitude show libdvdread4
Package: libdvdread4
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
I have a fresh 9.04 install and can confirm this bug. The fix works for
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I have the same problem too. Welli I found a way aabout the problem. I
removed the gstreamer codecs and totem-gstreamer, installed xine 1s.
Before xine, I had tried vlc, smplayer too and they could not play dvds
too. with xine, all works perfectly. so I think there s problem with
gstreamer. But
The package from Onkar's PPA did not fix the problem for me. I am happy
to provide further information that might help to fix the problem.
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@JD, Michael,
Your bugs is this?
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+question/55307
I linked it's with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/334466
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said that the DVD plays initially. I don't even get this far before
failure.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Fox -ino pin...@tiscali.it wrote:
@JD, Michael,
Your bugs is this?
Also doesn't work for me. Not anymore, it did yesterday with the same
DVD.
Output of totem dvd://:
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9:
DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
import sha
** Message: no file info
@JD, Michael,
Your problems seem to be different than what this bug was about i.e. no
dvd menu against no dvd playback at all (in any player).
Can you please file separate bugs so that I can forward them to upstream
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It was I who filed this bug in the first place! Are you asking me to create
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com
wrote:
@JD, Michael,
Your problems seem to be different than what this bug was about
@JD,
I am sorry. My bad.
Do you have problems in other players as well, like VLC or mplayer. And
is the error same? Did the PPA package ever fix the problem for you?
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It does not work with mplayer or VLC either.
Error-outputs attached.
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All with the same DVD (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ;-) )
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I will have the same problem either with all media players on my system or
with none. I do not think the PPA package had an effect as DVDs do
sometimes work on my system.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com
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@JD,
I am sorry. My bad.
Do you have
I have only found one DVD where it works.
Terminal output as follows and it works fine with menues and everything.
mi...@xps-m1330:~$ totem dvd://
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9:
DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module
The Terminal just gets flushed with this real fast.
The lines starting with ***libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed... come over and
over again really fast.
mi...@xps-m1330:~$ totem dvd://
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9:
DeprecationWarning: the sha module is
After digging a little further through my shlef of DVDs it seems like
different DVDs give different errors and only a few (two to be exact,
which are very old) actually work.
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How do I attach more than one file to a bug report anyway?
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I'm still having problem with this.
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Yeah it is still not fixed for me either on a Dell XPS m1330.
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@JD, @Michael,
Can you please attach the output from command line when you launch
'totem dvd://'. Also make sure you have libdvdcss2 and all the necessary
gstreamer plugins installed.
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import sha
** Message: no file info
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3
This bug was fixed in the package libdvdread - 4.1.3-4ubuntu2
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* Use autogen.sh and configure script instead of configure2 till we figure
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the standard jaunty version seems to work correctly there on several
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@Sebastien
As we discussed previously on #ubuntu-devel, it is not working for me on any of
the DVDs I have.
I am now wondering if this has to do anything with architecture of the machine.
My laptop is a iBook (powerpc). And as Martin has noted here he is using amd64.
@Martin,
Do you have any
I do, in fact. I should have some results to post by tomorrow
(Saturday).
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I ran into this issue with my Vaio VGN-SZ650N laptop and the PPA allowed
DVD playback, under totem, to function. 2.6.28-11-generic #39-Ubuntu
SMP Thu Apr 2 03:00:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
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Upgraded a Dell Dimension 8400 that was running Intrepid i386 to Jaunty.
I couldn't get the DVD recognized until I updated to the PPA package,
which was then able to read and play the DVD (I used both lsdvd and
totem to check it).
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Any progress here? I use the fix in the ppa almost daily - not with
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I have been doing some testing with various DVDs I have. I will upload
the fix to repositories over weekend.
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Your PPA Package did not solve the issue for me. I still cannot play DVDs on my
Dell XPS M1330 running Jaunty amd64.
Totem gives me a Could not read from Source-message.
Attached you will find log-files.
I really hope this helps.
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Sorry for the 4th message in a row, but Totem actually gives an error
about not having permissions to open the file or it just locks up and
says nothing.
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I'm running amd64. I see a similar problem where totem complains. The
ppa libdvdread4 package seems to fix it.
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The package made no difference to the way DVDs play. One thing I forgot
to mention -- I don't know if it is related. The DVD does not always
fail to play, but instead sometimes plays very slowly, frozen on the
first second when the main feature plays until a Permission denied
error appears.
@JD,
I have following questions for you.
1. Do you have libdvdcss installed?
2. How did you install the package form my PPA?
The same package works for me. But if I install package from official
repository then the playback does not work.
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I have libdvdcss2 installed and I installed your package by going to the
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say whether installing the package has an effect because, after this
boot at least, the DVD was playing, albeit ridiculously slowly.
Maybe this will
@JD,
Can you please try installing libdvdread4 from my PPA and see if it
works - https://edge.launchpad.net/~onkarshinde/+archive/ppa
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Confirming - this blocks dvds on all players except for xine-ui, it
seems. Marking a blocker for the beta.
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