[plug] dvdread problem

[John Knight]

Try grabbing the latest dvdcss and dvdread from source and compiling them. 
Those versions are getting long in the tooth, and suffer more of those 
problems. The programs you're using will generally assume that you're using 
something up to date. The copy problem would probably be from the DVD being 
encrypted. And sometimes, things just randomly crack/not crack, and you just 
have to have a second go, or try another player. I'm not sure if the crack 
libs still store keys, but once you cracked a dvd, it used to store a key 
for the future, so once cracked, always cracked (but sometimes it took a few 
goes). I don't really get that these days with the newer libraries.

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"


>Hi List,
>
>        I am having a problem playing DVDs.
>I can play audio CDs and browse data CDs and DVDs.
>
>Using mplayer, vlc or totem-xine I get an error message related to
>libdvdread. The error message is
>libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 1 (VTS_01_0.IFO).
>
>The output for totem is below. I can give you the output for
>mplayer and vlc if you think they might be more revealing.
>
>Here are the relevant library versions.
>
>libdvdcss2               1.2.5-1
>libdvdnav4               0.1.9-3
>libdvdread3              0.9.4-5
>kubuntu                  5.10
>
>I have searched on the error message. While it appears in a number of
>postings, I dont really understand the advice being offered.
>
>It was suggested that I copy the contents of video_ts from the
>DVD and then try to play them directly. The copy failed (see below).
>
>So it appears to be a disk reading problem but I am a bit stuck for the 
>next step in tracking it down.
>
>Bye
>Rob