DVD frustration - new observation

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 12 March 2007, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>
> You don't happen to have some stale VIDEO_TS.* files in your root
> directory, do you? Yes, I do mean the / directory, but maybe you should
> also check your home, current, etc dirs. I had an issue with xine not
> playing the dvd when a file with such name resides in / (don't ask me how
> it got there). Though I still don't understand that behavior of xine,
> renaming the file to something not-dvd-specific removed the problem.
>
> At the time I was too busy to investigate and file a bug report, but maybe
> you have the same issue. As I understand, for some reason xine seems to
> look for VIDEO_TS.IFO and .VOB files in / directory when you click on the
> "dvd" button, and if it finds one, tries to play it (unsuccessfully in my
> case), ignoring the actual dvd in the drive. It then reports a problem with
> the "mrt" and (sometimes) crashes.
>
> I have not tried mplayer. It does not support on-screen menus, so I use
> xine for dvds, and mplayer for everything else. :-)
>
> Oh, btw, this happend on a FC4 machine, xine was (and still is) v0.99.4.
> Have not tried to reproduce the problem, was happy to eliminate it once and
> avoid it since. :-)
>
Nothing obvious there.  I have to go out in a few minutes, but I'll check more 
thoroughly later.

Anne