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When I put in a movie, the DVD player hums and whirls, but no movie. I press the play button, I get the message below!
If I press the playback>play, I get the same message.
Any help would be appreciated!
Quote:
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/sr0".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/sr0".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.
I have debian 9.3. I installed using apt-get, and have just tried to update/upgrade and it is the most recent/updated version! How do I find the logs? I can get back to you with that info if I can find the logs.
The movie is "Return to Snowy River."
as far as obtaining libdvdcss:
Quote:
from the libdvd-pkg package (available in contrib starting from stretch and jessie-backports): this is an helper package that downloads, checks and compiles the sources from upstream and creates a .deb package.
Code:
sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libdvd-pkg is already the newest version (1.4.0-1-2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Why don't you just get the deb from deb-multimedia and install it by hand?
The libdvd-pkg is just a bunch of scripts that downloads, compiles, packages installs the same thing.
Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
Posts: 1,649
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ73
I have debian 9.3. I installed using apt-get, and have just tried to update/upgrade and it is the most recent/updated version! How do I find the logs? I can get back to you with that info if I can find the logs.
The movie is "Return to Snowy River."
as far as obtaining libdvdcss:
Code:
sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libdvd-pkg is already the newest version (1.4.0-1-2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
you have to run libdvd-pkg so it will build libdvdcss (also make sure contrib is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list)....warned about legal stuff and all in your area.
@ondoho - OK, I tried the tools>messages - on verbosity 1 it is blank, on verbosity 2, same results. It has some stuff in the "modules tree" tab, but won't copy and paste, but if you need that I'll go back and write it down and post it.
@ jim p - I'll look into the deb multimedia and try that out.
@ ChuangTzu -
Code:
$ dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found
xxxxxxx~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
[sudo] password for xxxxxxxx:
libdvd-pkg: guest package [libdvdcss2/1.4.0-1~local] is already installed.
Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
Posts: 1,649
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ73
@ondoho - OK, I tried the tools>messages - on verbosity 1 it is blank, on verbosity 2, same results. It has some stuff in the "modules tree" tab, but won't copy and paste, but if you need that I'll go back and write it down and post it.
@ jim p - I'll look into the deb multimedia and try that out.
@ ChuangTzu -
Code:
$ dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found
xxxxxxx~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
[sudo] password for xxxxxxxx:
libdvd-pkg: guest package [libdvdcss2/1.4.0-1~local] is already installed.
@ondoho - OK, I tried the tools>messages - on verbosity 1 it is blank, on verbosity 2, same results. It has some stuff in the "modules tree" tab, but won't copy and paste, but if you need that I'll go back and write it down and post it.
in that case i'd say your dvd is not at /dev/sr0. have you checked where it actually is?
or maybe the disk really cannot be played for hardware reasons. have you checked (other players, file manager, other OS)?
or maybe it is not a standard DVD but something else entirely. have you checked with other DVDs known to be working?
I have debian 9.3. I installed using apt-get, and have just tried to update/upgrade and it is the most recent/updated version! How do I find the logs? I can get back to you with that info if I can find the logs.
The movie is "Return to Snowy River."
as far as obtaining libdvdcss:
Code:
sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libdvd-pkg is already the newest version (1.4.0-1-2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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