Okay, I usually can play just about any DVD I want to, between Kaffeine and Mplayer.
I've got one now that is doing something I've not encountered before. I've got a KISS DVD, small size, containing about 5 or 6 of their videos. ($5.88 at Wal-mart).
Video plays fine. Audio is fine thru the opening credits, interim screens and main menu. Pick any of the actual songs themselves though, and I get nothing but HISS. Kinda reminds you of the hiss on a dead channel on TV.
Trying to play it from the command line with Mplayer gives an error message to the effect that there are too many audio packets. It suggests that if its an AVI file to use the -ni option. Well, its DVD and not AVI but I tried it anyways and it didn't make a difference.
Thanks in advance!
Ronald; This is just a stab in the dark, but the actual music audio may have some protection built in or encrypted into the files or the disc itself. It's more likely that you're missing a compression codec or that your audio may not be set to handle the playback or bitrate of these files, but I thought it was worth mentioning. This might not be Microsoft's DRM crap, but possibly Macrovision's ACP protection by the sound
of it ( No pun intended ). I'm assuming that you don't have problems playing back other DVD's, so my guess is either a missing codec or protection technology.
This doesn't help much , but if all else fails, I didn't want you beating your head against the wall. Good drywall guys are hard to find these days, and you'd end up with a nasty hole in the wall. Grin!
Lanman
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