Fw: is this project alive?

[CORDING Darryl]

Hi,

I am one of those people that noticed your email regarding vlc on the livid
list. I too was having all sorts issues with oms, although it ran pretty
much out-of-the-box for me first time around(without quality audio), but I
have never got it going again since. I downloaded vlc but have not been able
to get it going either, it just sits there with "waiting for stream....".
Output from stdout/stderr has been variable, first I would get messages of
the form "can not find starting point.." now all I get are seg faults. There
are all various error messages produced depending one which vob's I tell vlc
to use. That maybe normal, I am not that familiar with dvd filesystems yet.

In /var/log/messages I continually get this:
	Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: hdd: packet command error: error=0x50 
	Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: ATAPI device hdd: 
	Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel:   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense
key=0x05) 
	Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel:   Cannot read medium - incompatible
format -- (asc=0x30, ascq=0x02) 
	Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel:   The failed "Read Subchannel" packet
command was:  
	Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel:   "42 02 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00
" 
	Oct 12 09:12:39 bugs kernel: hdd: packet command error: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 

Which suggests to me that I'm missing something in the kernel, probably in
the cdrom-ide driver. I have tried kernels 2.2.12-20, 2.2.16-3 and
2.4.0-test9 but all give the same error messages. Next I will try 2.2.16-22.
I have been using Xfree86 3.3, I have download 4.0 but have not installed it
as yet.

My dvd drive as detected at bootup is, TORiSAN DVD-ROM DRD-U624, ATAPI CDROM
drive.

I was wondering if anybody has come across this before any maybe able to
point me in the right direction from here ??

Thanks for any feedback
Darryl

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:p at belial.ucdavis.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 6:31 PM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: Re: Fw: is this project alive?


> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000, bharat  tewari wrote:
> 
> > well i don't know whether this project is still alive or not but i
> > have a question.
> 
>    The project is still alive, but as the new term has just started
> here, we first have to organize a bit as to which students will do what
> (it's mostly a school project, and we have to deal with a few additional
> constraints).
 
sam, fwiw, i think a lot of people are using livid because the dvd playing
howto only mentions this option for playing dvd's.

i stumbled onto vlc via the debian mailing list, and got my dvd playing
within a few minutes via your vlc rpm.

after compiling the source with ppro and mmx enabled, dvd playing was
nearly flawless under a PII/400.  it WAS flawless after setting up the
mtrr's correctly and switching from enlightenment to the mwm window
manager.

i mentioned this on the livid mailing list, and a WHOLE BUNCH of people
asked me about the videolan project.  everyone was impressed by the project;
livid cvs hasn't compiled (and i'm not newbie) for quite some time.  it's
been very frustrating for a lot of people.  vlc is fantastic software.

on behalf of linux dvd owners, i wanted to thank you and the vlc developers
and give you my utmost encouragement for your project.

simply put, you guys are fantastic.  thank you!

pete

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