[MPlayer-users] Problem reading DVD burned on the JVC DR-MH20S

[Emiliano Rago]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:51:57PM +0100, Thierry Grauss wrote:
> I have backed up a video tape on DVD using the JVC DR-MH20S burner.
> The DVD-R is finalized and I can read the different VOB files on it 
> individually, but if I use mplayer (there is the same problem with xine) to 
> play the DVD as a normal video DVD, here is the message I get :
> 
> Joue dvd://
> Lecture de la structure du disque, veuillez patienter...
> *** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:311
>     for vmgi_mat->zero_3 = 0x00000000010000000000000000000000000000
> libdvdread: Invalid main menu IFO (VIDEO_TS.IFO).
> Can't open VMG info!
> 
> English translation of the message is :
> 
> Play dvd://
> Reading the disc structure, please wait...
> *** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:311
>     for vmgi_mat->zero_3 = 0x00000000010000000000000000000000000000
> libdvdread: Invalid main menu IFO (VIDEO_TS.IFO).
> Can't open VMG info!
> 
> I don't think it is a problem of mplayer (or xine) but a problem of the dvd 
> burner which does not produce correct video DVD, but it is really annoying.

Try to copy the DVD into your home and then do

mplayer -dvd-device <directory> dvd://1

If it work, then the problem is that you put into the DVD a wrong file system.

Regards,
Emiliano