[plug] Unable to view movie DVD with Linux

[Bret Busby]

Hello, everyone.

We have a movie DVD that we have copied, using a DVD writer.

We can view the copies of the DVD, with MS Windows XP, but not with 
Linux.

The DVD has two folders; audio_ts and video_ts .

I am running Debian 3.1 (our ADSL quota ran out, so can't upgrade to 4.0 
this month), and I have tried totem, ogle (ogle-mmx),  vlc, and am 
unable to read the files on the DVD (I can't view the movie, which is 
about 15 minutes long, from memory).

With ogle, I get the following error:
"/usr/bin/ogle
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
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**                                            **
**  No css library available. See             **
**  /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/README.Debian  **
**  for more information.                     **
**                                            **
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libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
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**                                            **
**  No css library available. See             **
**  /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/README.Debian  **
**  for more information.                     **
**                                            **
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SNDCTL_DSP_GETCHANNELMASK: Invalid argument
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_vs]: B-frame before forward ref frame
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_vs]: B-frame before forward ref frame
FATAL[ogle_vout]: Cannot open display
"

The DVD copies cannot be read on an audio-visual DVD reader (the type 
connected to the television and the stereo), but the "original", from 
which we made the copies, can be read on the audio-visual DVD reader.

The DVD of the "original", which is a copy of another, is on a DVD-R 
disc, and we copied it to other DVD-R discs, of the same speed (1-16).

The DVD is a "home made" movie, made by some multi-media students for a 
project, and we are free to copy it.

The contents of the video_ts directory, follow:
"ls -lh /mnt/cdrom/video_ts
total 812M
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  12K 2006-06-25 10:27 video_ts.bup
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  12K 2006-06-25 10:27 video_ts.ifo
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 288K 2006-06-25 10:27 video_ts.vob
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  22K 2006-06-25 10:27 vts_01_0.bup
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root  22K 2006-06-25 10:27 vts_01_0.ifo
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 812M 2006-06-25 10:27 vts_01_1.vob
"

The audio_ts directory shows as being empty.

Can anyone tell me why we cannot view the movie, using Linux, and what 
we need to do, to be able to view the movie using Linux?

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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