[MPlayer-users] libdvdread: Can't seek to block

[David C. Diemer]

Zennon,

I've seen this type of problem with DVDs from regions outside your allowable 
one. For example, I prefer region 1 DVDs and my DVD player is region set for 
the USA, so far so good. But right now, I'm in Europe (Germany) and mostly 
they have here is region 2 DVDs (Europe, not the USA or South Africa(!)). 
So, when the DVD is inserted and libdvdread wants to read the DVD, it uses 
the region programmed on the DVD and merges it with the region code in the 
player to produce a "key" that is used to read the encrypted blocks.

This is one possibility.

The other is that your DVD player is damaged or the DVD you're trying to 
play is bad.

Could you fill me if any of these is correct?


Thanks,

Dave








----Original Message Follows----
From: Zennon Poliboda <zennon at polbox.com>
Reply-To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: [MPlayer-users] libdvdread: Can't seek to block
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:23:27 +0100

[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
Hi all.

This seems to be the old problem as ggogle tells a lot about this but 
anyways can't find the solution.

The problem is:

1. I insert a DVD into the drive, I issue the command:

silverdr at vessa:~$ mplayer -dvd 1

and I get the results as below.

****************************************************************
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90pre10-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP 
Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
MMX2 supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE

Reading /home/silverdr/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open 
'/home/silverdr/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/codecs.conf: 44 audio & 110 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/silverdr/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
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 
startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/silverdr/.mplayer/input.conf : No such 
file or directory
Input config file /etc/input.conf parsed : 50 binds
Setting up lirc support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed opening lirc support!
You won't be able to use your remote control

Playing DVD title 1
Using CSS Key-cache dir: /home/silverdr/.mplayer/DVDKeys/UNDEFINED
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 2 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:  0,00% (0 bytes)    libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 1787007
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported 
=============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! 
===


Exiting... (End of file)
silverdr at vessa:~$

******************************************************************


2. The same DVD plays OK in a standalone player

3. The same DVD plays OK in _the same_ drive in _the same_ pc when using a 
windowz player... :-(

4. Some other DVDs play more or less flawlessly using mplayer.

Any clues?

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