[MPlayer-users] ERROR: libdvdcss error: css error: ioctl_ReadCopyright failed

[Austin Gonyou]

Perhaps another workaround is to use 2 separate drives as well, if you
have them, keeping the dvd-rom drive as ide only. 

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 02:33, Stefan Recksiegel wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi Stephan,
> 
> > When I try to start the player with "mplayer -dvd 2" I get an error
> > libdvdcss error: css error: ioctl_ReadCopyright failed, make sure DVD
> 
> > For this reason I had to "fake" my IDE-Drive as a SCSI device. A
> 
> > Has anyone any hints or solution for this?
> 
> not a solution but maybe an explanation because I experienced a very
> similar problem:
> 
> I think that the ide-scsi translator can only translate 'normal', CD-
> operation related commands, when I try to play a DVD on an ATAPI
> drive that is accessed via ide-scsi I find a message in the kernel
> logs that says that ide-scsi could not translate a command that
> was given to it. This was kernel 2.4.2, maybe this has already been
> fixed in a newer kernel so that ide-scsi knows about the command
> necessary to authenticate a DVD.
> 
> A workaround would be to access the drive as a normal IDE drive
> and only use the scsi-emulation for burning CDs.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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