| ricky_ds |
08-28-2004 05:49 PM |
Problems reading some DVDs with Mplayer or Totem on Mdk 10
Some of the DVDs I own or I borrowed from a friend play perfectly with MPlayer or Totem (from PLF), some of them being code 2 (my region), some others being from asia. So I'm pretty confident the zones are not a problem.
However, some of the DVDs, code 2, don't play nice with me. When loading the movie with Totem, I get 2 error dialogs. The first dialog says "Totem could not read dvd://; no plugin is available for this movie type" and immediately covered by the second dialog: "An error occured; The movie /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 could not be read."
MPlayer, on its side, claims: "Can't open VMG info"
According to threadid=38889, a test is to check whether the files on the DVD can be actually read.
Here's what I get:
Code:
$ pwd
/mnt/cdrom2/VIDEO_TS
$ ll
insgesamt 7201172
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 14336 Jan 17 2002 VIDEO_TS.BUP
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 14336 Jan 17 2002 VIDEO_TS.IFO
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 1542144 Jan 14 2002 VIDEO_TS.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 14336 Jan 14 2002 VTS_01_0.BUP
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 14336 Jan 14 2002 VTS_01_0.IFO
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 0 Jan 14 2002 VTS_01_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 7471104 Jan 14 2002 VTS_01_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 92160 Jan 17 2002 VTS_02_0.BUP
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 92160 Jan 17 2002 VTS_02_0.IFO
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 129910784 Jan 17 2002 VTS_02_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 1073739776 Jan 14 2002 VTS_02_1.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 1073739776 Jan 14 2002 VTS_02_2.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 1073739776 Jan 14 2002 VTS_02_3.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 274618368 Jan 14 2002 VTS_02_4.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 1073739776 Jan 14 2002 VTS_02_5.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 1073739776 Jan 14 2002 VTS_02_6.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 1063061504 Jan 14 2002 VTS_02_7.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 20480 Jan 14 2002 VTS_03_0.BUP
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 20480 Jan 14 2002 VTS_03_0.IFO
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 0 Jan 14 2002 VTS_03_0.VOB
-r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 528414720 Jan 14 2002 VTS_03_1.VOB
If I look at these files with Konqueror, it shows me the "movie" icon for VTS_02_2.VOB, VTS_02_3.VOB, VTS_02_4.VOB and VTS_02_7.VOB. All others have another icon (white sheet with a blue line above, except for the two empty files, which don't have the blue line).
Code:
$ file VTS_02_7.VOB
VTS_02_7.VOB: MPEG system stream data
$ file VTS_02_6.VOB
VTS_02_6.VOB: ERROR: cannot read `VTS_02_6.VOB' (Input/output error)
So all of these files which don't get detected as a movie have an Input/output error. What's the cause of this? is it a hardware problem? Is it a medium problem? is it a configuration problem? or even a software problem?
I'd be glad to hear your insights. |
