** Description changed:
Since I bought my laptop, I couldn't read dvd. I never searched for a
solution -
until today.
This was a brand new laptop and it never booted anything else than ubuntu. The
region code for the DVD drive was not set and it seems the drive refused to
read
DVD for this reason.
After installing and using regionset (in universe, I think), it now works.
There
was no user friendly error but just this in the syslog:
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 1877480
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x50
ide: failed opcode was 100
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 15019848
FWIW, I'm using xine to read dvd, but I suspect it's libdvdread that should
handle this.
+
+
+ Addtional suggestion for a solution (from the commenters) :
+
+ - When the player (totem, vlc etc..) see that even if libdvdcss is
+ present the decss fails:
+
+ -- Regionset should be installed and the region/set times last retrieved.
+ -- A nice Gui is presented with the worldmap of regions ( see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code#Region_codes_and_countries) and
the user select his region.
+
+ -- A Big warning should be displayed saying that this can be done only a
+ limited number of times.
+
+ -- Then regionset is called.
+
+ -- Then the playback can be restarted only if the region of the DVD and
+ the drive match.
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Title:
The user should be presented a GUI to set the region code of his brand
new DVD drive when trying to read a CSS crippled DVD (When needed)
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