Try first a no-region (or Region 0) disc first - that will eliminate that problem for now. Most documentatries and 'adult' films are Region 0.
Make sure you have DMA enabled on that drive, although you should already have jerky video if that where your only issue.
Check gentoo forums for some of your errors - even if you aren't using gentoo musch of the advice appiles to the packages.


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CB

CF wrote:

Yes - its a nasty can of worms.

I've got a standard IDE DVDROM drive (cos it was about $15 more
expensive than a new CDROM drive) and I can't get it to play DVDs.

The machine is a celeron 1Ghz with a budget motherboard, via chipset,
and trident graphics.  The DVD is slave on the second IDE bus (/dev/hdd)
with an HP CDRW as /dev/hdc

I've tried xine, mplayer, ogle, etc. as players, and lsdvd and dvdbackup
to simply read some info.

I can mount a CDROM fine. I can mount a DVD fine too, but some chapters
don't read.  For example:

tramadol:/dvd/VIDEO_TS# file *
...
VTS_02_5.VOB: MPEG system stream data
VTS_02_6.VOB: ERROR: cannot read `VTS_02_6.VOB' (Input/output error)
...

Showing the disk is mounted.
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
                     7.7G  7.7G     0 100% /dvd

One thought was that there was no region set, so I set it to zone 4
using regionset, but that made no difference.

Most errors look similar to this, so I suspect the problem lies with
libdvdcss and friends.

tramadol:~# lsdvd
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open main ifo!

Does anyone have any advice / thoughts / etc ?







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