[MPlayer-users] DVD playback: ILLEGAL REQUEST andcouldnotopendevice

[Russell Packer]

> On Wednesday, 04 August 2004 at 13:32, Russell Packer wrote:
> The error messages I get:
>
> Playing dvd://1.
> libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
>
> And in the syslog I get:
>
> kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
>
> I am using the 2.4.26 kernel, and mplayer 1.0pre5.

[big snip]

Everything certainly seems to be set up as it should be, and having read
through hundreds of posts (some of them starting way, way back - like
2002) I've come to the conclusion it is most likely to do with the way
that the DVD is created. As I recall, everyone else who has faced this
problem uses a DVD burner.

There are lots like this:

http://www.exit1.org/archive/dvdrip-users/2004-03/msg00005.html


Its looking more like it's a libdvdread problem alone, so I guess I
should take it to their list?

Some people think it could be a region issue, but then I'm using K3B to
burn my DVD and it comes out as all region. Well, regions 1,2,3,4,5,6,8
anyway.

I don't have any audio in my DVD (yet), but no-one else has mentioned
this as a possible issue.