Hello!
I am running Slackware Linux 11.0 with kernel 2.6.18. I recently burnt a film on a dvd, using k3b. In Windows I play the film from the dvd disc ok. However in linux, I get the following error when I try to play DVD in mplayer:

Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!
File not found: '1'
Failed to open dvd://1.

If I try to play DVD with xine, this is what I get:

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdnavVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnavVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdnavVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
libdvdnavVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.

/dev/dvd is pointing to /dev/hdc, which is my dvd player. I have libdvdcss, libdvdread and libdvdnav installed. I googled an read some literature, but I could not find the answer. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,
Martin

And does your ordinary user have the permissions to read/write the
raw device /dev/hdc?


Cheers,
Tink

Yes, my user (marto) does have rw axess to /dev/hdc, cos marto is a member of group cdrom, and /dev/hdc is
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2007-01-01 14:46 /dev/hdc
I as well tried chmodding /dev/hdc to 777, but again there was no result.
What is strange is that the file that the players complain they cannot read does exist on the DVD, and in Windows the windows media player plays it without any problem.

What is strangest of all is that if I mount the dvd and then type
xine /mnt/dvd
playback starts ok.
With mplayer if I am in the mnt/dvd directory and the dvd is mounted, and I type
mplayer dvd://VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB

playback starts, but there is the following complaint:
Playing dvd://VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB.
The hostname option must be an integer: VIDEO_TS
Struct dvd, field hostname parsing error: VIDEO_TS
Option stream url: This URL doesn't have a hostname part.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
Can't open VMG info!
MPEG-PS file format detected.

I wonder why both players cannot play when I choose the option play DVD from their GUI?

I as well found out that commercial DVDs are played without problem, however. Probably there is some trick when recording dvd films on disks? I recently read something about UTF formats, probably this is the key...I would be thankful if someone explains that in more detail.

udf, not utf, I made a mistake.

Here are some explanations
http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computi...-creation.jspx
Hope this helps
Ciao

Thank you very much indeed. This really is a very helpful site. I'll see whether things will now go ok

It seems to me the problem is how you ripped the dvd, not how you burnt it
Let me suggest you a nice program called K9copy for ripping. It is able to compress to 4.7 Gigs commercial dvd. You can find the packages here
http://www.slacky.it/index.php?optio...ileinfo&id=628
Ciao

Thank you very much. I followed the instructions in the first site you gave me and now everything plays ok .
I do not see what the software in the second site does, but the first site's instructions seem to work for me .

Provided some extra software (libdvdread, libdvdcss, dvdauthor, vamps) that you already should have installed, K9Copy is able to produce an iso image from a commercial DVD you can burn with K3b or whathever software you like.
The iso image will fit the 4,7 Gigs size of DVD+/-R and will be playable by any DVD player (computer or standalone).
Ciao