Re: [SLUG] can't play DVDs

From: list-catcher (list-catcher@hellburner.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2008 - 15:51:45 EDT


> When I try to play a video DVD with mplayer, I get this:
>
> eben@kong:~$ mplayer dvd://1
> MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team

That's an old version.

> Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8257536 bytes).
> Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
> For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
> MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
> Video: Cannot read properties.
> ==========================================================================
> Forced audio codec: mad

What's your command line?

> Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
> Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
> Using MMX optimized resampler
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
> Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
> ==========================================================================
> AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Video: no video
> Starting playback...
> a52: CRC check failed!
> a52: error at resampling
> a52: CRC check failed! 0 (25:08.0) 0.6%
> a52: CRC check failed! 0 (25:08.0) 0.6%
> a52: error at resampling
> a52: CRC check failed! 0 (25:08.0) 0.6%
> a52: error at resampling
> etc.
>
> File permissions are reasonable:
>
> brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2008-06-27 18:46 /dev/scd0
>
> Yes, I'm in the group "cdrom". If I mount the disc, I get a read error at
> the beginning of VTS_01_*.BUP . Could this machine not support DVD
> encryption? This is a Mr. Bean movie (though the only other time I tried,
> it failed too, possibly for a diffferent reason), and I have libdvdread3.
> Ideas?

You're reading it fine.

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