Just got the following from wikipedia: "libdvdcss uses a generated list of possible player keys. If none of them works (for instance, when the DVD drive enforces region coding) a brute force algorithm is tried so the region code of a DVD is ignored."
This means that libdvdcss2 should ignore region code IF your player key is in the list OR brute force is successful. This could mean that libdvdcss2 is failing to brute force region code and there's nothing to do about it. I mean, couldn't find information if libdvdcss2 shoud work ALWAYS... If not, this wouldn't be exactly a bug, but a limitation. BUT, there are people above reporting that they could use their drives with previous versions of Ubuntu. Why am I insisting that the problem may be about region code? Note the following quotes from the reports above: "Jan 2 22:00:19 tjalfi kernel: [ 981.470273] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region" - from the original post. "Jan 17 10:32:23 ASLAN1 kernel: [ 3267.310407] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region" - from Roland Giesler "Feb 28 19:47:23 ghana kernel: [ 140.423317] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region" - form Alec J Weatherwood and this is always followed by supposed I/O errors that could be the drive refusing to give more data from a non-matching region disc. A friend of mine has told me that it is possible to reflash the drive to make it region-free, but there is always a small risk with reflashing... The big questions remain: 1) Should libdvdcss2 work ALWAYS ignoring region? 2) When people above say that they could watch DVDs in their drives with previous releases, were they trying to watch the same discs with the same region codes? Or did they try a different disk that could be set to a different region code than their drives? I hope this helps solving this bug. -- DVD playback broken in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
