<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lan Barnes</b> <<a href="mailto:lan@falleagle.net">lan@falleagle.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm a relatively new Myth user running MythDora 3.2 whth a PVR-150 and an<br>old GForce nVidia card. The basics (watch TV, schedule recordings) are<br>running beautifully. Now I'm expanding my ambitions.<br><br>My problem is that the DVD functions appear not to be utilizing my DVD
<br>R/W. The device is:<br><br> HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B<br><br>The system has linked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdd. This appears to be correct,<br>because when I run "eject /dev/hdd" as root, the tray opens. I also<br>
installed MythDora through this drive (although it wouldn't be the first<br>time for me that a Fedora/RH install had recognized a drive that the<br>subsequent system couldn't see -- go figure).<br><br>My only other meaningful experiment was to put a known-good DVD movie in
<br>the tray and select Play DVD in the menu. This led to a clearing of the<br>screen as if xine had loaded full screen, and then ... nothing. Healthy<br>looking disk access lights but nada. Ctr-Alt-F2 took me to another<br>
terminal, so Linux was thriving under the hood, but I had to do a reboot<br>to get control back (obviously I could have played with various kills, but<br>a reboot seemed safe).<br><br>The system has:<br><br>/usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2
<br>/usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2.0.8<br><br>So I don't syspect it's a decoding issue.<br><br>I googled the drive and found some commentary on how it may not be an<br>ideal HW choice for Linux, but can be made to work. I have put an
<br>extensive quote below on this from what I found (skip if you wish).<br><br>So my questions:<br><br>- anyone know why this is happening?<br><br>- anyone have experience with this DVD HW?<br><br>- any recommendations? Upgrade the firmware? Cut my losses and buy a
<br>different drive? Is it all user error?<br><br>TIA for any help.<br><br><br><snip quote><br><br>--<br>Lan Barnes<br><br>SCM Analyst Linux Guy<br>Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer<br><br><br><br>
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Not sure if this is the core problem, but make sure if it is a new
drive that you have the region code set on it. I purchased a new dvd
drive, and had a heck of a time
getting a dvd to play finally traced it down to the region code not
being set in the drive's firmware. There is a linux cli util that will do it. After that everything worked fine. Playing the dvd's anyway.<br><br>Chris<br>