RANT: DVD playback is rough

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Jun 2 12:07:21 UTC 2006


Karl Larsen wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>  
>>> After several attempts with a combination of mplayer, xine, totem and
>>> ogle I can't play a DVD that is legally in my possesion. I can however
>>> play any DVD rip that I can get my hands on. I _could_ reboot down to
>>> Windows. But I just don't see why. To the powers that be, please put a
>>> Window's only sticker on DVDs if that is only where it is meant to be
>>> used.
>>>
>>> I can't find fault in the hackers who made the first few seconds of
>>> the disks introduction play. Peace be with them.
>>>
>>> Sorry, just kinda upset about spending an hour trying to make a DVD disk
>>> play.
>>>
>>> For the curious, these are the errors I got with Ogle (those from xine
>>> were similiar, but more numerous)
>>>
>>> *** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:926
>>>    for vts_ptt_srpt->zero_1 = 0x2400
>>>
>>> *** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:928 ***
>>> *** for vts_ptt_srpt->nr_of_srpts < 100 ***
>>>
>>> FATAL[ogle_nav]: ifoRead_VTS_PTT_SRPT failed
>>> ERROR[ogle_ctrl]: ogle_sysv_shmrm: Invalid argument
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Have you installed libdvdcss?
>>
>>   
>    I think my DAY of trying to get a commercial DVD movie to play will
> be useful. I have watched whole movies on my FC4 computer. Here is what
> works. You must yum totem and xine as a pair from Europe and also from
> Europe get the Codex files. These 3 things are required and they are all
> from Europe. When these things are all intalled use totem to diplay the
> movie. Xine will not work and neither will mplayer.

Well...

Adding the livna repo...

then doing yum install xine* mplayer* libdvdcss*  makes everything right
for me.  Simple as that....  Care to come over and watch a DVD?


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