[SOLVED] Current64: Alien's VLC 3.0.2 (restricted) cannot open DVD's
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Current64: Alien's VLC 3.0.2 (restricted) cannot open DVD's
Current64: Alien's VLC 3.0.2 (restricted version) cannot open DVD's, whereas the 3.0.0 could.
The only (obvious) syslog messages are 3 "program vlc is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO" ones in a row.
Full /var/log/messages attached.
My kernel version is 4.16.5.
I noticed that the 3.0.2 package shrunk considerably -- 23.8 MB vs 41.8 MB for 3.0.0.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,015
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Just a few minutes ago I posted the following on Alien Bob's blog.
I couldn't remember where I had seen the first message in this thread and thought it might have been over there. My apologies if this is redundant for some of you.
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After reading something about DVDs not playing properly, i blew the dust off a DVD movie and tried to play it. No luck, regardless of what software package I tried.
With VLC the second I clicked “play disc” it crashed. Others, such as MPlayer, would access the dvd for a few seconds and then stop as if no command was ever issued.
So, just for chuckles I tried all the same players as “root” and they all worked perfectly.
I’m guessing it must be a permissions problem, but I don’t know where to start.
What would you recommend?
Many thanks!
Hard core . I am still lamenting the slow death of the audio CD, not ready for the end of DVDs and BlueRays yet...
Portable medias.... it went from floppy disks, to Iomega-type Zipdisks, to those unpopular SuperDisk LS-120's, to CD ro's and CD-RW's, to pre-USB2.0 sticks, to DVDs (RW+, RW-, ...) of ever-increasing capacities, to BlueRays, and to capacity-increasing USB2.0, USB3.0 sticks.
In any case, guess that someone could always try using HandBrake (SBo https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...dia/HandBrake/ maintained by klaatu) for DVD contents getting converted to saveable .mp3, .mp4, .ogg formats.
libdvdcss is a cross-platform library for transparent DVD device
access with on-the-fly CSS decryption. It is used by libdvdread
and most DVD players such as VLC because of its portability and
because, unlike similar libraries, it does not require your DVD
drive to be region locked.
For $15 you can test VLC playing the DVSs as you like...
You're funny. Always demanding, never putting the money where your mouth is. Whatever donation money I still get, is not even enough to pay the rented server, domain and electricity bills for the two 24/7 operational servers at home.
I can open and play DVDs from my old box of Rocky & Bullwinkle Season 1 discs.
Atom 450 CPU, 2G RAM, external USB DVD drive,1024x600 screen, I can't believe it works fine. I guess I wouldn't want to use it all the time, it is too noisy and hot but still works great for backups if I need it.
I think there is nothing for AlienBob to fix at the moment, follow the changelog and make sure all deps are installed. As far as I can tell, it works as advertised. I use slackpkg+ current repos. Thanks.
I upgraded to http://slackware.uk/people/alien/res...-3.0.2-x86_64-2alien.txz and experienced the same problem. However I noticed that the Open Media > Disc > DVD Disc device was not '/dev/sr0" as expected. I tried to amend this but failed -- first when I selected Blu-ray and then DVD again I was able to, after which the DVD played OK.
I no longer can run the 1alien version (because of the libidn bump) so I cannot confirm or deny the Disc device setting to be the cause of my problem there too.
Marking this thread as solved ...
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by burdi01
I upgraded to http://slackware.uk/people/alien/res...-3.0.2-x86_64-2alien.txz and experienced the same problem. However I noticed that the Open Media > Disc > DVD Disc device was not '/dev/sr0" as expected. I tried to amend this but failed -- first when I selected Blu-ray and then DVD again I was able to, after which the DVD played OK.
I no longer can run the 1alien version (because of the libidn bump) so I cannot confirm or deny the Disc device setting to be the cause of my problem there too.
Marking this thread as solved ...
I've had, and have, a similar problem.
When 3.0.whatever came out VLC would start and play a file from the hard drive, but when I clicked on "media/open disc" VLC would crash and disappear in a flash.
I went back to VLC-2.whatever and it worked as it should.
After the -current updates of the last few days it stopped working, so I tried the most recent build of VLC-3.0.2, and I'm back to the first problem, i.e., click on "open disc"
and it disappears in a flash.
The device is correct.
The error is,
Quote:
ASSERT failure in QList<T>:perator[]: "index out of range", file /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qlist.h, line 549
Aborted
SMPlayer (MPLayer) works fine, but I prefer VLC.
Last edited by cwizardone; 05-23-2018 at 11:44 AM.
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