Kanguru QuickSilver USB DVD Drive

Adrohak · 03-03-2005, 01:31 PM

I purchased a USB DVD drive so I could burn DVDs from any of my computers. I wanted to watch a movie with the DVD drive last night, and the results were as follows:

Code:

[slackbox ~] mplayer -nosound dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 14 titles on this DVD.
There are 28 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.

Yet I get no video; MPlayer just hangs. Exact same results as root. I tried watching a different DVD, and got this instead:

Code:

[slackbox ~] mplayer -nosound dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


Playing dvd://1.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 5 titles on this DVD.
There are 34 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO).
Cannot open the IFO file for DVD title 1.


Exiting... (End of file)

I get the exact same thing as root.

Why isn't this working? ;(

Adrohak · 03-03-2005, 02:37 PM

Failed to mention these facts in the last post:
- DVD drive reads and writes data DVDs flawlessly;
- MPlayer can play downloaded videos flawlessly.

Adrohak · 03-03-2005, 04:56 PM

Little bit more info. I just compiled and set up Xine, and it gives me a very different error:

Code:

[slackbox ~/mydocs/mp3s] xine -p dvd:/
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000200
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB (0x00000200)
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00002680
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB (0x00002680)
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x000026a0
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB (0x000026a0)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
...
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_14_0.VOB at 0x003517a0
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_14_0.VOB (0x003517a0)
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_14_1.VOB at 0x003517c0
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_14_1.VOB (0x003517c0)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 14 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 4

Then I am presented with a pop-up window that reads:

Code:

The source can't be read.
Maybe you don't have sufficient writes for this,
or source doesn't contain data (e.g.: not disc
in drive). (Error reading NAV packet.)

Same problem as root. So then I decided to try a second DVD:

Code:

[slackbox ~/mydocs/mp3s] xine -p dvd:/
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00022681
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000249ec
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x0002ce6a
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
...
libdvdread: Found 7 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 7

The movie started playing. Now I guess this is a software question:
Why will libdvdread get some of my DVDs' keys, but not others'? :\

Adrohak · 03-04-2005, 04:13 PM

I've still had no luck... Ideas, anyone?

Adrohak · 03-07-2005, 08:25 AM

Anybody? ;(