[vlc] Re: [Robert Norton <robert.m.norton at gmail.com>] Problem playing DVDs

[Jean-Paul Saman]

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> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:04:42 +0100
> From: Robert Norton <robert.m.norton at gmail.com>
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: Problem playing DVDs
> 
> Hi,
> 
> First may I say how much I enjoy vlc: a video player which does
> exactly what I need and no more! However...
> 
> When trying to play dvds on my laptop using vlc on windows (latest
> version) and on linux (version in ubuntu feisty) I find that it often
> cuts out. It doesn't crash, but always stops at exactly the same point
> on any particular dvd. Skipping to beyond the point of the error
> allows me to watch the rest.
> 
> Attached is log of the -vvvv debug output of from running vlc on
> linux. Clearly the following is an error:
> 
> libdvdnav: demux error! 00 00 00 (should be 0x000001)
> 
> but further up I also see these suspicious lines:
> 
> [00000291] dvdnav demuxer warning: cannot get next block (Expected NAV
> packet but none found.)
> [00000289] main input debug: closing input
> 
> Has anybody else seen something like this before? Could it have
> something to do with my particular dvd drive?
> 
I think it has more todo with the DVD, which has probably some kind of 
DRM scheme that violates the official spec. Or there is a scratch on 
your DVD.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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