[MPlayer-users] Re: USB DVD movie playback

[Nico]

HI,
a friend of mine had the same problem: the usb-scsi emulation layer 
didn't pass authentication commands to the drive.
He solved this issue using the latest usb driver with 2.4.22 ? or maybe 
2.6 test -xxx

Scott Gunyan wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > Has anyone had success viewing DVD movies with a USB DVD device?
> >
> > How does the DVD device appear to the system?  If it's /dev/xyz then
> > it should be pretty straightforward to play it.
> >
> > I don't have a USB DVD drive, but my DV camera has a USB connection
> > for the MemoryStick, and that uses the standard usb-storage module 
> so > it appears to the system as a SCSI drive - so I mount /dev/sda1 to
> > access it, or I imagine, if it was a DVD I'd use /dev/sda1 as the 
> DVD > device.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Adam.
>
> /dev/scd0
>
> I've actually used this drive for reading iso9660 fs, burning CDs and 
> DVDs, but haven't been able to play DVDs.  mplayer either hangs at 
> reading the VTS_01_0.IFO file or succeeds there and then quickly hangs.
> I get the following kernel message in /var/log/messages:
> Oct  9 05:49:36 AMDKing kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 26144
> Oct  9 05:49:53 AMDKing kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 26144
>
> Thus, I was wondering if this is a usb-kernel ioctls issue since I 
> assume mplayer (and other css decrypting software) needs io calls 
> which may or may not be implemented so far in the USB code.  Hence the 
> question, anyone successful at DVD playback over a USB device?
>
> -jackp
>
>
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