dvd help

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 13 August 2001 7:02 pm, brendan at cs.uchicago.edu wrote:
> i'm having trouble getting dvd playback. i'm probably missing something
> silly. here goes.
> 
> compiled without a hitch. mpeg playback works great. sound, fullscreen,
> everything. dvd playback doesn't work though.
> 
> when i select open disk, it places /dev/dvd in the playlist. i press
> play and vlc -vvv at this point spits out something like:
> 
> unlocking ... 
> locking ...
> 
> and sits there. i let it sit there for a *long* time, so the faq
> suggestion that it may be cracking the key doesn't make sense. also,
> i never see/hear drive activity.
> 
> dvd ioctls look ok, i think, since i can mount /dev/dvd and browse around.
> 
> /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdc
> 
> /dev/hdc is mode 666
> 
> linux kernel 2.4.4 (could this be the problem? i noticed that the web
> site said 2.4.1 has issues. i don't want to do a 20mb+ download unless
> i have to though, as i am on a 28.8 modem).
> 
> xfree 4.0.1
> 
> vlc 0.2.28
> 

Hmmm... Everything looks fine.

Could you send the debug output you've got when running "vlc -vvvvvv 
dvd:/dev/dvd"

--
Gildas