Hi there,

Never had a problem playing a DVD video on Mandriva LE 2005 before until now.

I have an original DVD that has 6 episodes on it, the first 3 play fine, but the remaining 3 wont play (Choppy sound only)

The whole DVD plays fine on a standalone DVD player and my Windows computer.

So far I`ve tried several players and re-installed dvdcss

any ideas would be great as I have run out of them heheh

what app? is you cpu being pegged when it's skipping? make sure you try mplayer, it rocks.

I`ve tried Kaffiene, Mplayer, Totem and Xine, same problem with them all, Episodes 1,2 & 3 on the DVD play back perfect, but episodes 4, 5 & 6 on the same DVD have ok audio with choppy pixalated video.

CPU useage is low.

I get the feeling it`s not decrypting the second half of the DVD.

it is decrypting it otherwise you wouldn't be able to see or hear anything. Do you have this problem with any other DVDs?

what if you use say, mplayer to dump the video to a file first before watching it? might hint at wether it's hardware issues, deciding or such.

Interesting.....

mplayer dvd://1 plays the first episode fine
mplayer dvd://2 plays second episode fine
mplayer dvd://3 plays third episode fine

mplayer dvd://4 wont work
mplayer dvd://5 wont work
mplayer dvd://6 wont work


[ef@localhost ~]$ mplayer dvd://4
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.


73 audio & 180 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startupscripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing dvd://4.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 8 titles on this DVD.
There are 8 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
Cache fill: 11.13% (933888 bytes) MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 7500.0 kbps (937.5 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
a52: CRC check failed!
AC3: 2.0 (stereo) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s
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)
==========================================================================
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
AF_pre: 48000Hz/2ch/s16le
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/s16le -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
a52: error at resampling
a52: CRC check failed!

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).

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Maybe this is a hardware fault then?

I really believe there is something incorrect about the recent version of libdvdcss-1.2.9. I'm also having problems playing DVD's in Mandriva and they all give DVD errors with all different players (Kaffeine, Totem, VLC). THe same DVD's I try work fine in Windows and on my DVD entertainment system.

Maybe we should try a previous version of libdvdcss? I remember DVD's play fine when I was using Mandrake 9.2.

Tried several versions of css no luck though, wonder what else it could be, thanks for you help

I get a choppy DVD playback on Kaffeine and Xine, while the same disk plays great with VLC. Any suggestion ?